Oh it's an interesting time to be driving the Ukip bus.
Once it was all so easy, you just had to pretend to not be too much of a posho and spout rhetoric that you think your imaginary audience of 'common men' (Who drive a white Van, reads the Sun and hates 'Puffs') might like and try not to let it slip that your interest is actually a mix of establishment conservatism, xenophobia and business interests...
The trick was to not look too serious, not too slick. You could fall over in an amusing way (learnt, of course, from Boris) you could say risque cliches, you could always be photographed holding a pint of lager with all the natural ease of someone holding a pot of live snakes and as long as you didn't say anything overtly racist that might get wide interest, you could imply things that were...
Now it's all gone a bit serious though, with a member having the whip withdrawn just for the tiny misstep of calling all of the women in a room at the Ukip Party conference 'Action for Women' type thing; 'Sluts'. Why, because they didn't clean behind the fridge... or something.
Now he says it's a joke. You know what, I'm pretty sure it is... and to be honest they probably did laugh. They're at a Ukip thing... chuckles must be hard to come by. But what it indicates to me is how much the rules have changed. Farage has his deep set eyes on some glittery prize somewhere down the line now... a pact with Tories in marginals perhaps, or even the prospect of replacing the Lib Dems as the traditional protest vote for people who can't be arsed to find out about politics...
So Farage is cleaning house, but some of the members don't seem to have got the memo.. they think it's just the same ol' ragtag of elite pub-bore Poshos, who think Jeremy Clarkson isn't acting and like the idea of bossing about real working people who they have essentially conned into believing they work in their interests (Little Heads up. Nobody is working in your interest, that's not the way to look at politics folks.. pick a side and get with it, but never be fooled into thinking they're looking out for you)
So what could a slick Ukip do?
Actually less, they are essentially the 'Boris' party. People trust them because they appear to be a shambles. The moment they start getting slick and polished, getting rid of the ludicrous 'Poundland' style logo perhaps, or ironing out Farage's perpetually pub-crumpled face on billboards they will lose the one trick that holds them together.. The idea that this lot are too dumb to be conning us...
I'm not a fan of them Ukipers... they seem to have a bad attitude to Women and Homosexuals as well as Migrants... I mainly feel sorry for them though, they are a party based on fear and neophobia... and one thing you can never hold back is the 'new'
Interesting side point. I've heard on the ol' grapevine that BNP and Ukip have a fundamental disagreement. Apparently The BNP don't like the Ukip policy on migration from Eastern Europe, because although they are migrants and thus less than a British born man with more Bulldogs carved into his flesh than battersea dogs home 3 days after christmas, but at least they are 'White' people who are less than a British born etc etc etc...
If anyone can confirm this I would be grateful, because despite being ignorant and bizarre, the fact that at some point a group of morons might have had that discussion with another group of morons is somehow delightful...
Once it was all so easy, you just had to pretend to not be too much of a posho and spout rhetoric that you think your imaginary audience of 'common men' (Who drive a white Van, reads the Sun and hates 'Puffs') might like and try not to let it slip that your interest is actually a mix of establishment conservatism, xenophobia and business interests...
The trick was to not look too serious, not too slick. You could fall over in an amusing way (learnt, of course, from Boris) you could say risque cliches, you could always be photographed holding a pint of lager with all the natural ease of someone holding a pot of live snakes and as long as you didn't say anything overtly racist that might get wide interest, you could imply things that were...
Now it's all gone a bit serious though, with a member having the whip withdrawn just for the tiny misstep of calling all of the women in a room at the Ukip Party conference 'Action for Women' type thing; 'Sluts'. Why, because they didn't clean behind the fridge... or something.
Now he says it's a joke. You know what, I'm pretty sure it is... and to be honest they probably did laugh. They're at a Ukip thing... chuckles must be hard to come by. But what it indicates to me is how much the rules have changed. Farage has his deep set eyes on some glittery prize somewhere down the line now... a pact with Tories in marginals perhaps, or even the prospect of replacing the Lib Dems as the traditional protest vote for people who can't be arsed to find out about politics...
So Farage is cleaning house, but some of the members don't seem to have got the memo.. they think it's just the same ol' ragtag of elite pub-bore Poshos, who think Jeremy Clarkson isn't acting and like the idea of bossing about real working people who they have essentially conned into believing they work in their interests (Little Heads up. Nobody is working in your interest, that's not the way to look at politics folks.. pick a side and get with it, but never be fooled into thinking they're looking out for you)
So what could a slick Ukip do?
Actually less, they are essentially the 'Boris' party. People trust them because they appear to be a shambles. The moment they start getting slick and polished, getting rid of the ludicrous 'Poundland' style logo perhaps, or ironing out Farage's perpetually pub-crumpled face on billboards they will lose the one trick that holds them together.. The idea that this lot are too dumb to be conning us...
I'm not a fan of them Ukipers... they seem to have a bad attitude to Women and Homosexuals as well as Migrants... I mainly feel sorry for them though, they are a party based on fear and neophobia... and one thing you can never hold back is the 'new'
Interesting side point. I've heard on the ol' grapevine that BNP and Ukip have a fundamental disagreement. Apparently The BNP don't like the Ukip policy on migration from Eastern Europe, because although they are migrants and thus less than a British born man with more Bulldogs carved into his flesh than battersea dogs home 3 days after christmas, but at least they are 'White' people who are less than a British born etc etc etc...
If anyone can confirm this I would be grateful, because despite being ignorant and bizarre, the fact that at some point a group of morons might have had that discussion with another group of morons is somehow delightful...
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