Why I believe UKIP has a truly unique position in British politics.
I don’t like being too partisan in posts. It really turns me off some articles I read. The tribal politics of Westminster is harmful to our country and is why I respect people like Stuart Wheeler and Lord Kalms so much, men who speak out if they feel passionately and have both been expelled from the Conservative party as a result.
Yet I feel I must make a point about what I feel is the unlimited potential of the UK Independence Party going forward. You see, something occured to me while campaigning in Norwich North. As I and a colleague pounded the streets of a council estate and leafletted high rise flats, before later on moving on to leafy Thatcherite suburbia, a thought occured to me. UKIP’s clusters of support in both areas is quite unique in British politics.
Being quite general but not inaccurate at all, it is fair to say the other British parties outside of the LibLabCon all have niche audiences.
For the Greens, it is the self-styled metropolitan Starbucks-drinking middle class who have time to worry about climate change rather than things that blight regular people’s lives, such as crime and a terrible state education system.
The BNP’s overwhelming vote comes from poor former Labour strongholds where people have given up on the system entirely and choose to turn a blind eye to the BNP’s Neo-Nazi roots out of anger and ignorance.
But lets look at UKIP’s appeal. A small state but taking those earning less than £10,000 out of tax altogether. Abolishing inheritance tax but re-introducing grammar schools to make social mobility a reality rather than a theory. Absolute opposition to ID cards and choice for people in our society, like where smoking can take place in pubs. And the widely appealing policy of stopping our daily payment £40 million subsidy to the EU by withdrawing but maintaining a free trade relationship.
UKIP’s appeal and vote base is not confined to any particular voter of another party. The fallacy that UKIP is a party of former Tories is nonsense now moreso than ever before. The party saw a defection just last week from a Liberal Democrat Council Council candidate in Norwich. I expect many more as angry voters increasingly stir and wake up to the realisation that UKIP is a party with a true alternative vision for Britain.
5 Responses to “Why I believe UKIP has a truly unique position in British politics.”
Well said Michael.
I agree with the view that UKIP appeals to a broad spectrum of voters now.
We must build on this of course and transfer as many votes from the EU elections to UKIP at the next General Election whenever it comes.
It is quite clear to me that the Conservative party is no longer the real opposition and we must persuade voters that a vote for them is a wasted vote, not the other way around.
We have many ex Labour followers now in South Yorkshire and the Lib Dims are not really a threat except of course in Nick Cleggs Sheffield homeland!
UKIP is a very small party trying to mix it with the big boys.
In June 2009 we came second in the national poll in the EU Elections.
We did very well !
But we are still a small party, and we are up against budget twenty to thirty times our budget.
But we are fighting a noble cause.
We want our democracy back !
The EU is trying to destroy our parliament at Westminster, and replace it with an EU federal government based in Brussels.
80% of our sovereignty has already been passed over to the EU.
The Lisbon Treaty will pass over most of what little sovereignty we have left.
UKIP is a small party fighting a very big, important couse.
Where UKIP should improve is in atttracting more disaffected Labour voters.
British Jobs for British Workers
British Fish for British Fisherment
British Investment in British Industry
British Homes for British Homless
British Controls on British Borders
UKIP needs do do more in these areas to attract the disaffected Labour vote.
What we need to do is pick up on the point about £40 million a day to the EU . The other 3 parties are effectively saying we are in so much debt we will need to cut services . UKIP can say by getting out of the EU we will save so much money any cuts will be kept to a minimum. Didnt I read somewhere that it is not only the £ 40 million we can save but there are lots of other savings to be made by leaving the fascist EU.
Yes Jim you are right about the costs. If you look at the analysis done by our MEP Gerard Batten you will find much higher figures which outline the true costs.
Unfortunately, the government will not agree to undertake a proper cost/benefit analysis so Gerard's figures are the best available.
The web-sites of the Bruges Group and Open Europe will show similar findings.
Better off OUT of the EUSSR
Better get our crooked MP's OUT of parliament a.s.a.p.