Another Guardian hatchet job on Ukip. However, Paul Mason manages to miss the point by a country mile.
So what have such people lost from globalisation? Materially, wages. Whether east European migration really does place an extra downward pressure on low-skilled wages is disputed. What you can’t dispute is that those breaking away from the three main parties believe so from experience. On top of that, globalisation – combined with the info-tech revolution – exerts a downward pressure on incomes, “hollowing out” middle income jobs and making it harder to climb out of low pay.
This, apparently is why people are pissed off with the big three – not because of this, oh, no, not at all:
In the media, it is rare to find anybody in a position of power who supports Ukip; newsrooms are recruited from the same broadly liberal élite as the political party leaderships.
This is why. Politicians all peddling the same stuff – indistinguishable apart from the rosette on their lapel, all ignoring the wishes of their electorates, all having left university and went straight into politics having never done a useful day’s work in their miserable lives (and none since, frankly) and all supported, aided and abetted by a leftist media peopled by the same scum. Not to mention the authoritarian (un)civil service that sees us as nothing more than farm animals to be herded and corralled because we are too stupid to manage our own lives – and the politicians lap it all up each competing with the other to see who can be the most dystopian.
That’s why people are turning away in their droves. It isn’t politics people are sick of, it’s politicians and the feeling of helplessness in the face of a political élite that ignores the electorate in favour of their own agenda. Nigel Farage may not have the answers to our problems but he does one thing well; he is upsetting the comfortable lives of the usual crowd. Watching their discomfort is a pleasure to be enjoyed. The next election promises to be a draw if all the indicators are correct. I’m ordering in some popcorn.
Can’t wait…. Bring it on!
Incidentally, there’s a UKIP candidate for PCC in Yorkshire next month as well in the wake of the Rotherham scandal and Commissioner’s resignation. Been quiet about that one haven’t they? Should prove interesting.
Of course the Grauniad missed the point, like the vest majority of media and politicians they haven’t got a clue what a real normal honest to goodness working person or pensioner thinks feels knows wants loves desires or can afford, they are so far removed from normal people they might as well have arrived from the bloody planet Zod in a space ship.
I speak to lots of people in my job and the support for UKIP is simply staggering among working people, Nige isn’t exaggerating when he speaks of the peoples army…those responsible for the mess that is the UK are despised in a manner i haven’t seen before, it’s got past being remotely funny for the vast majority now where it was almost amusing before The Blair performed his evil, the boy Cameron continues His work.
No, Nige may not have all the answers but he’s giving the bastards a bloody hiding, and they’re running round like headless chickens, good.
“…he’s giving the bastards a bloody hiding…”
Why can’t I get out of my head the picture of a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire..?
Wishful thinking, perchance?
Like your style. Red Ed. Cameron and Clegg. What a prile of Cunts.