UKIP

[poliphilo]

Poor old UKIP. What a bunch of clowns, eh? Custard pies to the left of 'em, buckets of whitewash to the right of 'em. Every day brings fresh humiliation- a mis-speaking candidate there, a disillusioned youth leader there.

But they're still going to give the other three parties a pasting in the European elections.

Why?

Easy:

1. There are still a lot of votes in beer and beef and booting those bloody foreigners up the arse.  It's a pity, but there it is.

2. All that fumbling and bumbling is sort of attractive because it's human- and most of our politicians have had the humanity leached out of them for fear of causing offence. No other big-time politician laughs the way Nigel Farage laughs- with abandon, showing his teeth and tonsils; they just wouldn't dare.

Comments

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Doesn't stop him being a racist, xenophobic, misogynistic arsehole though!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's part of his appeal, I'm afraid... :(

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Farage, Johnson and Galloway: at least we have a choice of demagogues these days...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But where are all the nice, decent, liberal-minded demagogues?

[redatt.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're right and they'll give the other parties as pasting, but I'm heartened that many of the people I know who have expressed general agreement or support for them in the past are now more often heard expressing disgust.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

in part, it's quite deliberate. Consider Boris Johnson, whose views, when examined, are hardly moderate - but, he receives a free pass from the media at large, as he has this aura of the lovable buffoon.

I do remain perplexed (if I were naive) as to the virtual silence regarding the Greens, when they've recently passed the LibDems in the polls. Meanwhile, Farage need do nothing but amiably deflect on being confronted by yet another racist, homophobic, xenophobic UKIP candidate? Feh.

BTW, did you listen to that excellent Farage takedown on LBC the other day? Superbly researched, and thereby, positively skewering.