UKIP MEP: 'We Must Rediscover Our Radical Core'

PJ Media ^ | 06-14-2017 | Michael van der Galien

[Michael van der Galien]

One of the saddest aspects of Britain's election disaster was the horrible performance of UKIP, the party formerly led by Nigel Farage (and during the campaign by Paul Nuttall who has since resigned).

Although UKIP played a prominent role in the campaign leading up to the Brexit referendum last year, the party's raison d'etat seems to have disappeared when voters backed Britain's exit from the European Union. Or so many voters clearly felt.

UKIP Member of the European Parliament Bill Etheridge begs to differ, however. Writing for The Telegraph, Etheridge argues that UKIP lost because the party wasn't radical enough. The only way to make a comeback, then, is by rediscovering and embracing their (former) radicalism:

"[T]he Ukip campaign and the entire election was a disaster and the manifesto was not one that I would vote for. Rather than continue to be a party offering alternatives, we tried to be like the establishment despite a clear warning from Nigel Farage not to abandon our core principles at the spring conference in Bolton."

Next, Etheridge blasts Nuttall for letting him and other UKIP'ers down "and instead surrounded himself with incompetent advisors who oversaw failure after failure and had no track record to speak of."

But what to do then?

"Ukip was never just about the EU: the battle for independence from Brussels was the first battle we needed to win in the war for real liberty and economic vibrancy."

[flaglady47]

Nigel Farage is the only man who can save UKIP and the U.K. Otherwise Britain is doomed.

[Flintlock]

To be just a tad more specific...........

............If you did not appreciate all the Muslim RAPEFUGEES, PETTY CRIMINALS, AND WELFARE CHEATS sucking out the UK’s lifeblood.............

you had NOBODY to vote for this time around. UKIP took a pass, and failed miserably.

[ameribbean expat]

When they start using therapeutic language, stick ‘em with a fork.