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| Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP enjoying his customary pint and cigarette. This clever marketing ploy as a 'man of the people' disguises the unpleasant truth about this far right party of racists, homophobes and sexists. |
Public schooled, ex-banker has
conned the public through the bottom of a pint glass.
ByHARRY BLACKWOOD
WINSTON CHURCHILL famously said:
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with
the average voter." Never a truer word and it seems that old Winston must
have been talking to the same sort of people that I converse with on Facebook and Twitter as well as the real word.
Without wanting to sound superior
(obviously I am) most people's knowledge of politics and the democratic process
(which is a total sham) could be written on the back of an envelope with a
six-inch emulsion brush. They'll be able to tell you every X Factor winner
since 1936 but ask who is foreign secretary or leader of the opposition and
they'd be knackered.
Is it any wonder then that a party of racists, homophobes, sexists and general
oddballs have managed to convince a huge proportion of the electorate that they
are the voice of reason?
No matter which way they try to
spin it, UKIP is a party for people who aren't very bright. It has to be.
Anybody with an IQ into double figures would quickly realise that UKIP is
nothing more than BNP Lite; a party for people who are happy to trot out the
line "I'm not racist, I've got a black doctor"
But it would be stupid to say that
all UKIP voters are closet racists. Of course they're not. Just most of them.
But I want to focus on the others. The ones whose only excuses are that they are stupid, suffering from cognitive dissonance or
they're desperate for change. It's the last one that I think explains the UKIP
phenomenon.
