David Cameron has launched a full-blown attack against Nigel Farage, describing the Ukip leader as a “supremely tactical” and “consummate politician” on a mission to “destroy the Conservative party”.
Too bad. You played and you lost. You did not “understand” the concerns expressed by the demos – you know, your employers – and you still don’t. And if the Conservative party disappears down the plughole of politics, that would be no bad thing, for it is hardly a force for good, now, is it? After all, now that Cameron has decided to place it in the centre-ground, chasing the same votes as the Labour Party, we have pink socialism and blue tinged socialism, it’s still socialism, so why not have the real thing? Either way, we get money taken from us and pissed up the wall in increasing amounts, prodnosing into our private lives and nudged, nannied and cajoled by a state that doesn’t realise that how we live our lives is none of its concern.
Farage played to the masses and won. Well, good for him. Cameron lost, well no sympathy. Try losing with a modicum of grace, please.
Fellow Conservative Boris Johnson also rallied to Mr Cameron’s side, characterising Ukip as “pitchfork-wielding populists” on a “peasant’s revolt” in his Daily Telegraph column today.
They don’t like it up ’em do they? This, however isn’t even close to a peasant’s revolt – a real one would be nice; complete with pitchforks and heads on spikes. What happened was fairly predictable – the big three got roasted by a demos heartily sick of being taken for a ride. That Farage’s Ukippers might do the same in the long run is nether here nor there – it was a useful vehicle to make an important point and that point got made. Whining about it garners no sympathy from me and nor will it be getting my vote next year.
David Cameron has launched a full-blown attack against Nigel Farage, describing the Ukip leader as a “supremely tactical” and “consummate politician” on a mission to “destroy the Conservative party”.
Isn’t that the whole point? What the fuck does Cameron expect? That Farage will avoid poaching disaffected Conservative voters? What an asinine fool he is – along with his cohorts Clegg and Milliband. They really don’t understand, do they?
Farage is fortunate he’s not operating in Thailand. The king of Thailand (supposedly head of a constitutional monarchy) doesn’t like populist politicians (he sees them as a threat to his hegemony), and since the army is loyal to the monarchy rather that the prevailing government, populist governments don’t tend to last long. Hence the travails of the Shinawatra political dynasty. Massively popular with the rural masses, but both Thaksin and now his sister Yingluk removed from power by military coup. The only governments that can cling onto power there are the ones that speak for the urban elite. Cameron would have no problem in the political climate there. Farage, I think, would not fare so well.
It’s really, really hard to see past all those feelings of entitlement and superiority?
Funny.
When people vote for the established parties, the vote is popular.
When they vote for ‘unapproved’ parties, the vote is populist.
Preceding the word with ‘pitchfork wielding’, allows Johnson to suggest the view that those voting otherwise are really just ignorant, clog wearing peasants, who only recently stopped sleeping with the livestock in our wattle and daub hovels before learning how to put a cross in a box.
I used to think Boris was alright, his comment shows he’s really just as nasty as the rest of them.
Elite, and out of touch. What a plonker.
Nigel Farage “…on a mission to “destroy the Conservative party…”
What Conservative Party?
There hasn’t been one since Cameron (Heir to Blair) turned it into NuLab Lite.
Cameron effected the destruction of the Conservative Party, aided & abetted by his coterie of public schoolboy chums/fellow PPE graduates…