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That's not to say that Nigel Farage isn't a populist charlatan of course !
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"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
As a child growing up in the 70s, racism was pretty common - regularly seen on TV (Love Thy Neighbour, Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning, et al) - and racist language was pretty common, particularly among my parents' generation.
By the time I'd reached adulthood, attitudes had moved spectacularly - no one (other than horrible BNP supporting thugs) used racist language - being a racist had become socially unacceptable.
Having made that massive journey in a fairly short period, Farage and his unpleasant colleagues are endeavouring to take us back - with no doubt a decent dose of homophobia thrown in for good measure. He's quoted this morning as having said 'stopping people diagnosed with HIV coming into the country would be a good start to controlling our borders'.
I am far from an advocate of having an open door policy to our borders - there are good economic reasons why excessive immigration is not tenable - politically I don't consider myself to be on the left, or right - on economic matters I believe in free markets, on social issues I'm probably to the left of centre - but one thing I cannot be doing with is extremes of either.
I feel genuinely saddened by today's result....
Whether we agree on it or not lots of people, particularly in the East of England, feel extremely negatively about immigration because it's fundamentally changed their local areas, their job prospects and their quality of life. If they speak up about it they're accused of racism / ignorance / thuggery (as indeed in this thread). Now, lo and behold they have a viable 'other' party to vote for.
Clearly Clacton voted for the MP as much as the party but the party was not enough to stop them doing so. The result in the other by election was pretty close too.
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The trouble with this is, all it does is improve a companies profitability. Fine if it's a UK based company as the money stays here, but a) The company may not be paying the tax due on the extra profitability, b) the company may be a non UK company and the profit flow outside, thus not in anyway contributing to our own economy.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
YAY!!!
And bollows to the lot of the PC types who bewail it
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I'm aware that Farage and co are struggling with the thorny and troublesome issue of a designer handbag tax and expect more daft ideas from this half-baked party.
I suppose that those who voted for Hitler thought it was a good protest vote. Unfortunately they never got a chance to vote again until after the war.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
But even worse than UKIP, are the Green party. Their policies on education amount to indoctrination, and their policies on health are that the planets health is more important than people's and a whole bunch of their cabinet are homopathy enthusiasts. They're probably the worst culprit for anti-science that we've got going. That includes UKIP!
That didn't take too long
I think we're on the cusp of a very depressing and dangerous age in this country, it actually scares me how many seemingly rational people now hate Muslims, the unemployed, or basically everyone who's on a lower rung of the social ladder than themselves.
According to Oxfam there are five families in the UK who have more money than the lowest 20% of the population put together, and yet our collective loathing is constantly aimed at "scroungers" and the very poorly paid.
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