Farage: Get Ready to Take Down the Political Establishment

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[winner3000]

May God protect Nigel Farage. There are too many people who would love to have make him dead. He’d better realize that and take the necessary precautions.

[Soul of the South]

If Palin, Cruz, Paul, Lee, North, Gingrich, Tim Scott, Trey Goudy, Alan West, and a few governors such as Scott Walker and Jan Brewer would break from the Republican Party and form a new Liberty Party the entire playing field would change. By 2020, we could have a competitive 3 party system.

[Vanders9]

I wouldn't be so sure of that. There is a considerable amount of propoganda being spread by certain groups (left as well as right curiously enough) to the effect that UKIP are just disaffected tories and support for them will split the right wing vote, thus allowing Labour in.

This is, at the least, a very London/southern centric view of things. The fact is that in the northern and midland counties UKIP members are more likely to be disaffected Labourites or even liberals. In large stretches of the country UKIP is now effectively the main opposition to the ruling Labour councils, and certainly the only party that has any chance of kicking them out of office. Most of the socialist councillors are lazy and arrogant. They think they have some god given right to office in these places on the basis that they are "working-class", and therefore they have done nothing for them for years. They are going, I believe, to get a very big surprise over the next few election cycles in the UK.

[Vanders9]

But in the long term, always voting for the lesser of two evils will ensure that the lesser of two evils will always persist, and the greater good will never emerge.

As for "Red Ed", as you call him, he's more like chameleon Ed, turning mildly pink when he needs to. IOW, He talks the talk when he's addressing the remnant of the true socialist revolutionary guard in the Labour party, but he doesn't really believe any of it. He knows that socialism in the UK was an utter disaster and that adherence to its tenets now would lead to economic catastrophe and ultimately electoral suicide.

[Gay State Conservative]

Well,I'm surely in over my head when discussing British politics with a Brit.You're a whole lot closer to it than am I.But much of what *I've* seen of Farage on the floor of the European Parliament (and I've seen a lot of him on youtube) seems to be the type of thing that would appeal much more to people more conservative (small “c”) than to what I assume to be the typical Labour supporter.It's my understanding,right or wrong,that the farther north you go in Britain the more Labour supporters you'll find (miners,factory workers,etc).
But,like I said,you're closer to it than I am...however,my assmptions are based on the conventional wisdom we hear here in The Colonies.

[Vanders9]

I can understand that opinion, but just as in the US, the UK is a great deal more conservative that outward appearances would indicate. There really is very little practical policy differences between The Conservative and Labour parties these days - we have had a long period of effectively consensus politics. Most of the hardcore support for both parties is essentially tribal in nature. If you can get past that mindset, and UKIP is beginning to, people of both sides begin to realise that the party they have given lifelong support for does not reflect their opinions.