In Heywood and Middleton, a classic Labour northern English seat, UKIP and the Tories combined got 51% of the vote. In Clacton – a deprived coastal area – the Conservatives and UKIP got 83% of the vote.
It is not that Labour and the Lib Dems offer an alternative that is in any significant way less devoted to corporate interests and serving the economic needs of the super-rich. The large majority of voters, and especially those who do not bother to vote, have by now worked out that the difference in their lives is negligible if they have a different member of the political class with his or her nose in the trough at their expense.
But everybody who has seen an actual UKIP campaign knows that their grassroots appeal is simply racist – they promote the idea that it is not the billionaires and ultra-wealthy who are sucking the resources from society, but rather the poor of a different colour. The Conservatives are striving, particularly through rampant Islamophobia, to compete for the atavistic vote.
UKIP is an antibody produced by the political establishment and their paymasters, to counter public disillusion with a dreadful and worsening unequal society. UKIP’s task is to divert public anger away from their exploiters towards specific groups of the poor. It does so very effectively. UKIP’s success yesterday will lead to a race among the mainstream parties to scapegoat vulnerable social groups – immigrants, benefit claimants, unemployed – and to compete in external xenophobia. The next government of the United Kingdom will be right wing to a degree which would have seemed unthinkable for the majority of my life.
Fred , you ,the guy that put fairy into fairy stories telling someone else that they are telling lies is just too ridiculous.
Go back to sheep rearing.!
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.”
Voltaire-
“Fred , you ,the guy that put fairy into fairy stories telling someone else that they are telling lies is just too ridiculous.
Go back to sheep rearing.!”
Fuck off and die retard.
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Fred , you ,the guy that put fairy into fairy stories telling someone else that they are telling lies is just too ridiculous.
Go back to sheep rearing.!”
Fuck off and die retard.
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Okay Fed I’ll give you that.
By the way Fred I didn’t know you owned sheep..Baaaa are all you BNP/NF/O/O EDL nut jobs all sheep sh*ggers, or is it just you.
Republic of Scotland 7-38pm.. “Falconer, said UK police should not have authorized themselves to utilize the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which had been originally designed to tackle terrorism”. Unfortunately he is wrong, RIPA can be invoked by government officials specified in the Act on the grounds of national security, and for the purposes of detecting crime, preventing disorder, public safety, protecting public health, or in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom, that is, any grounds can be covered at will under its exceedingly broad scope. I think this snoopers charter was David Blunketts doing.
Republic of Scotland 7-38pm.. “Falconer, said UK police should not have authorized themselves to utilize the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa), which had been originally designed to tackle terrorism”. Unfortunately he is wrong, RIPA can be invoked by government officials specified in the Act on the grounds of national security, and for the purposes of detecting crime, preventing disorder, public safety, protecting public health, or in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom, that is, any grounds can be covered at will under its exceedingly broad scope. I think this snoopers charter was David Blunketts doing.
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Harry Law
Yes Harry I agree but are those powers being used for those things you mention above, or are they being used for something more sinister.
On reflection Lord Falconer was right to complain about the police using RIPA to snoop on Journalists and others, and that this piece of legislation should be changed or repealed at the earliest opportunity.
“By the way Fred I didn’t know you owned sheep..Baaaa are all you BNP/NF/O/O EDL nut jobs all sheep sh*ggers, or is it just you.”
You still don’t know I own sheep retard. You know fuck all.
So fuck off and die.
Republic of Scotland,
Congratulations on your promotion from retard to non retard.
It’s game over for the Tories. If they can’t win Clacton or come second in Manchester, they’ve got no chance of forming a majority government. Their only hope now is that Labour do sufficiently badly that there has to be a LibLabCon National Government with UKIP in opposition. Given that Miliband seems to be heading backwards, that’s a distinct possibility.
The term retard is bigoted. I prefer ‘asshole’ because it’s egalitarian; everybody has one.
Goddard Commencement Speech (10:54) by Mumia Abu-Jamal
http://prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia/goddard-commencement-speech-1054-mumia-abu-jamal
Tagged by the bot Rehmat at 10 Oct, 2014 – 8:46 pm and yes UKIP has been/is being purged of support for Palestine. I hope Mary will mine the UKIP back-end in her usual inexorable way and expose the contagion that hijacked Gareth Shanks and others of similar persuasion.
Richard
Where to begin against your shocking statements about Islam?
There is a large group of Muslims who have a deep grudge against the UK for the excesses of a small group of cruel colonialists.
That’s nothing to do with me as a UK citizen. It’s nothing to do with Islam. Some of those immigrants with valid grievances are not even Muslims.
Islam is a purer version of the religions that derive from other Divine scriptures, because it is the latest revelation and the others have been changed. Very few Muslims have greater loyalty to their faith than to their culture. So, if you have a brain, please engage it, before reading Muslim behaviour as representing Islam.
The media as Craig so rightly points out play a large role in demonising the outsider, Islam, Internal UK Divide and Rule. Also the UK security services MI5 and MI6 are constantly try to utilise the Divisions inside Islam to fight neo-colonial wars for global mineral assets. ISIS is composed of spurious assets acquired in Western military interference over recent years, Chechens, Uighers, Afghanis, Pakistanis, Libyans – all willing tools of Zionism.
Lastly there is the kite in the middle of Islam, Israel, which is a front for the United states of America, Britain, Europe, Russia, South America, Africa, to push an ideological struggle against the heart of Islam.
If as I suspect you Richard are paid troll like the others on this blog. Get ready to “back under your stone”.
You and all the enlightened ( brainwashed ) ones on this thread are obviously not bothered about the English becoming a minority in their own land . The fact that they have never been consulted on the matter also does not seem to trouble you .
UKIP and their supporters do not agree to their own extinction . Very small minded is it not ? The voters are beginning to get behind UKIP . What a supercilious smirk this must occasion from lofty types such as yourself . What a smart move the liberal fascists have achieved by getting a part of the nation to hate itself . I want my small Country ruled from Westminster and an end to mass unlimited immigration . Do you call that right wing ?
Put the abuse and name calling back in the box and engage in the issues .That is the least you should aim for .
“Ray Jinghar-Don
10 Oct, 2014 – 3:19 pm
“But everybody who has seen an actual UKIP campaign knows that their grassroots appeal is simply racist”
And the attitude revealed by comments like that are part of the reason that your ilk is destined for replacement. Utterly out of touch with the reality of the general public mood.”
Oh, so you are fully inside the official inside group of UK society and Craig is daring to criticise the inside group’s Status Quo.
He’s not out of touch. He knows what you think and he thinks it’s balls.
Guano: Surely if it’s the latest ‘revelation’, it is in fact based upon on all the earlier accumulated distortions and corruptions up until that point, plus some new ones of its own. I still see religions I’m unafraid to say as simply an earlier form of societal control than parliaments, assemblies, senates and other pseudo-democratic forms that supplanted it, including mass media’s controlling influence through print, pamphlet and book publishing including those godawful holy texts, that God hims/herself wrote, personally in person, and newspapers, facilitated by increasing literacy; then radio, TV and finally despite outposts of relative freedom, the internet, through gatekeepers and centralising forces such as dominant search engines. Religion is nostalgia for the former bosses.
“Adams
You and all the enlightened ( brainwashed ) ones on this thread are obviously not bothered about the English becoming a minority in their own land . The fact that they have never been consulted on the matter also does not seem to trouble you .
Apart from potatoes and low quality wheat this country produces nothing, therefore the UK status quo have to keep colonising the lands where the sun shines and which have been blessed with oil.
In order to achieve this they have to engage with the people who come from those lands. Poles and Bulgarians whose countries have been sold to global corporations which are putting our milk farmers out of business, etc etc.
I’m sure you can attract their attention if you can make yourself useful to them by doing something. UKIP is a protest at our government ignoring its own citizens? Pathetic. Contribute something useful to this country. Don’t just rattle the prison of your own caged minds by being racist against those who your government takes an interest in.
Are you Romanian orphans?
I voted for the SNP in 2007 and 2010 because they promised a referendum on independence from the UK. They fulfilled that promise. I voted Yes.
I voted UKIP in the general and EU elections because they promise a referendum on independence from the EU. They have not yet fulfilled that promise but they have influenced the political discourse in that direction.
My motivation is to make it possible to extricate ourselves from the insidious web of neo-imperial governance represented by the EU and UK who are, like the U.S., controlled by a criminal cabal of banking and corporate elites.
Perhaps Craig is right to believe that UKIP is a creature of these elites and is being used as a lightning rod to divert the ire of the hoi polloi from the true target onto a more visible one. That is plausible given Nigel Farage’s background in the financial sector but I believe otherwise. To me he seems to be a rather typical Englishman of the upper middle class who is thoroughly imbued with the values of that class and who has not yet seen through the mirage in which he lives and moves and has his being. In any event he is a small but important part of a much greater shift in human consciousness that is growing in opposition to the decades old centripetal move in governance represented by organisations like the EU and similar unions around the world.
Tony M
No, not derived. Revealed fresh to Muhammad SAW.
For example Islam totally forbids any form of spying except for state security. Spying is an extremely vicious form of mind-control. Satan and spies observe us without being seen. Being spied on has only one remedy for the individual, the Craig remedy to his FOC employers, rebel loudly and noisily in order to expose the status quo’s corruption. Rebel and never let the bastards grind you down.
The Qur’an text is unequivocal, and universally ignored by senior Muslims. The imams are collaborators and spies. Islam is the real thing.
@ Bird Droppings, aka Guano
Responding to Adams:
Oh, so you are fully inside the official inside group of UK society and Craig is daring to criticise the inside group’s Status Quo.
He’s not out of touch.
How impossible, in the mind of the state-educated, BBC-Guardian-brainwashed liberal-leftie to believe that anyone could oppose the genocide of the British people by mass immigration other than out of shear nigger-hating racism.
That 70% of the UK population do so oppose their own extinction as a racial and cultural group is of course irrelevant, to the question of who’s in touch and who’s a raving loonie.
Now that was a completely Brilliant night..I simply was not expecting it..and we were all dancing at the front (like we do – my wife was even on stage)..and I wasn’t really headbanging ..well maybe a bit..in front of him..I had no idea he was there…He was a much bigger bloke than me..and he said your hair is getting in my beer..so I withdrew..like you do…I felt my hair…it didn’t seem wet at all..so I tried to go back to where I was dancing between my wife and my girlfriend…they tried to drag me away..so I just stood at the front of the stage and stared him Daggers..who the Fuck are You???
He was wearing a Hilton Hotel T-Shirt
I was Wearing My RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE one..My Wife and My Girlfriend Just Knew I wanted To Hit Him..and tried to drag me away..so I went away..went outside for a quick smoke..came back..this time from The Left Side…and Reached out My Hand To Him my hand…for a handshake..and said sorry mate..what else could he do..but shake my hand and Fuck Off.
You don’t do that at a gig..but we do.. Behave or Go Home..Do not Try and Provoke Me..Or You Won’t see The Floor
I stand my ground. I will not be intimidated by Bigger Cunts than me.,,especially if they are wearing a Hilton Hotel T-Shirt..sure I have stayed there too..but I do not flaunt it.
Tony
Talking of which, where’s Haddock and Chips? On Shabbat?
Good points D.R.
Of course Farage may be a crook or another puppet of the imperial deep state. But since he promises what most people want, why oppose him in preference for people who have demonstrated that they will never deliver either what they promised or what people want?
I think if Scotland had gained “independence” it would have been a hollow victory since it would have become an insignificant part of the EU, an even less democratic entity that the UK, whereas an independent UK could stand on its own feet, independent, prosperous, secure and friend-of-all-the-world.
As for Farage’s character, his school has produced some interesting models: P.G. Wodehouse and Ernest Shackleton, for example. Farage, like Wodehouse and Shackleton did not attend university, so he may not be as brainwashed and limited in his awareness as you think.
Farage, incidentally, was not a stock broker, he traded metals, not a business to attract your average Quaker, perhaps, but a necessary function, nevertheless, in an industrialize economy.
Oh short-sighted one, are you talking ethnicity or ideas?
God help us if USUKIS are planning genocide on the dwellers of this country on the scale they have done on the Muslims in our lifetimes.
The UK government exchanges worthless bangles for real power in colonial distant lands. Always has done. If that’s unfair against the UK residents because immigrants are getting bangles, please remember that UKUSIS swaps those bangles for bombs on the colonial lands.
I don’t suppose we’ll ever get your racist elephant shit back into your backside. Just leave it there on the side of the road and someone will clean it up later.
You support UKIP then?
Adams: I think you’ll find what you’ve got is what you voted for, it is the right who have pushed the mass immigration agenda, you latch on to one possible, but highly unlikely outcome, but misidentify who bears responsibility. And if you think the Labour Party is in any way left wing, you probably think the BBC is too and are beyond all hope. As for preferring government by Westminster, as opposed to say a new representative body for England, outside the breakaway capital of casino banking and financial crime, then that is clearly doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the result to be different. Farage exists to serve the existing establishment, he is a creature of the banking and finance elite who’ve wrecked and ransacked the countries of Britain, a synthetic creature served up to you by the BBC, which you’ve lapped up hungrily, foolishly, another parasite, who has become a millionaire through his EU parliament election salary and expenses, another leech, from the same mould as those he decries, you can clutch him close like a security blanket, teddy bear or dolly, but Nigel won’t be there to save you or anyone in their hour of need.
Despite that certain imminent betrayal you’ll probably fall for the same trick again, and again until you die, by which time another lot of authoritarian followers will be there to follow your generation’s woeful example and get done up like kippers too.
As English radicalism is so conspicuously forever absent, I’m convinced it probably never existed at all, even Cromwell laughed in the faces of the Levellers and the idea of a wider franchise. Concessions given later, much later – as democracy is still a new-fangled aspirational thing in these islands – such as universal suffrage, simply creating the superficial appearance of representative government, whilst entrenching the former power structures far more impenetrably and deeply than before. The UKIP lot too seem an entirely male phenomenon, probably having far more in common with the most regressive minority elements within Islam than they would like to acknowledge.
Specsave
Only you could see the difference between trading in commodities and trading in shares in companies that trade in commodities. The Quakers got into banking so they could put another moral firewall between the evil of their businesses and their high, high ideals.
More Bird Droppings:
Apart from potatoes and low quality wheat this country produces nothing
Rubbish, obviously.
UK Exports include:
cars: $35 billion
Meds: $22 billion
Gas turbines: $14 billion
Booze: $8 billion
Human and animal blood: $4 billion
Plus billions tourism and in insurance and other invisibles.
therefore the UK status quo have to keep colonising the lands where the sun shines and which have been blessed with oil.
Oh, yeah, where exactly are these colonies? And what about all that oil that the English are stealing from the Scotch?
In order to achieve this they have to engage with the people who come from those lands. Poles and Bulgarians whose countries have been sold to global corporations which are putting our milk farmers out of business, etc etc.
So that we have more people producing nothing requiring more colonization and more immigration. This is mere raving. Or is it verbiage spewed by a semi-intelligent meme-bot?
He’s in Kazakhstan I believe Guano.