UKIP Uncovered
What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Tuesday, May 25, 2004 

UKIP in the Nationals

The Guardian's Political Editor, Michael White, gives a well-considered analysis of UKIP's present prospects in this generally favourable review linked from its title: Collins joins Kilroy in UKIP's battle for Britain .

The Daily Telegraph in an article by Andrew Sparrow and Benedict Brogan, titled 'Big guns turn their fire on UKIP policies' seems to then go on to illustrate that the main parties continue to prefer to attack one another. Indeed the paper has to dig up UKIP's founder Alan Sked for any real assault on the party - hardly a 'Big Gun'.

In an 'Opinion' piece by Norman Tebbit, titled 'Howard will lose voters to the UKIP unless he toughens up' and linked from here the eurosceptic Tory grandee once again proves that for Conservatives party unity remains the objective above all else. He does have mild criticism for the appaling decision over the continuing alliance with the ultra-federalist EPP in the next party:-

European election candidates have been strong-armed into affiliation to the federalist European People's Party and, as a poll in this newspaper showed yesterday, significant numbers of disaffected Tories are now tempted to vote for the UK Independence Party.

While Conservative disunity over policy has diminished, it has been at the cost of diminishing policy, too.


The remainder of the piece then appears to get bogged down in a multitude of details over policy trivia having little - in fact nothing to do with the major campaign now in hand. Further comment on Lord Tebbit's article may be found on Teetering Tories

Reflecting the Conservatives concerns regarding the local elections it is noteworthy that their last PPB covered waste in UK public spending - thus proving they have nothing worth saying and certainly not hearing on Europe!

Established parties fear advance of UKIP is the title of The Independent's piece by Andrew Grice Political Editor.

"Labour fears disillusioned working-class voters may switch to the UKIP, while the Tories worry that part of their "core vote" may be tempted by the UKIP's policy of withdrawing from the European Union." he reports.

The lack of any decent arguments by those supporting further subjugation of our country is here brilliantly illustrated by a startlingly pathetic quote from Labour's Patricia Hewitt:-

"Most of us think in our personal lives that Europe is wonderful - cheap holidays, the ability to travel wherever we want in the EU, to work and study and retire there. Yet somehow the EU itself, which has given us all these benefits, has been turned into some kind of political monster,"

It shows what danger our democracy and individual common law rights and liberties are really in, when a cabinet minister can show such comprehensive ignorance in so hopelessly missing the point.

posted by Martin |5:47 AM
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