The UKIP effect

[Lord Jim]

Farage has carefully and cleverly positioned his party to exploit exactly those areas where the Conservatives and Labourites are weakest with large portions of their own constituencies. (And he's also been extremely mindful of the need to do this while avoiding the blatantly racist appeals of bully boy groups like the BNP that scare and turn off many voters...)

[wesw]

I wish we had a couple more parties here. or no parties...

[wesw]

viable parties that is

[MajGenl.Meade]

UKIP - an unfortunate name given that in the UK it means "you sleep"

[wesw]

ukip, we win

nice slogan, thanks meade!

[Lord Jim]

Here's a link to an excellent profile and interview with Farage in this week's Newsweek:

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/17/insi ... 76175.html

Here's one bit:

If history suggests that the ability to inspire hatred can be a perverse indicator of greatness in a politician, then who knows what heights Nigel Farage might scale? How many of us could really be driven to fury by such figures as Ed Miliband, David Cameron, or poor bewildered Nick Clegg? These are men who, I suggest to Farage, might have collaborated to develop a homogenised image you could brand as SBW: Smart Boy Wanted.

“They are appalling people, truly appalling,” Farage says, of his fellow party leaders. “Every one of them is as dull as bloody ditchwater. These men are thoroughly hopeless.”

“By what definition?”

“I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?”

[Gob]

“I judge everybody on the Farage Test. Number one, would I employ them? Number two, would I go for a drink with them?”[/b]

The "beer test" is infallible.

However, Farage forgot the Welsh amendment;
"Would I end up punching him in the face at the end of the evening"

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]

What ever else you want to say about Farage, he is one of the two most charismatic, compelling, and colorful political figures in British politics today...

(And we all know who the other one is... )

And it ain't Cameron, Milliband or Clegg...

That trio look like three oh-so-smug frat boys...

[Lord Jim]

Mr. Cameron is a well meaning sort, like Henry Collingridge in the original House Of Cards......

"A well meaning fool, with no background and no bottom..."

[Lord Jim]

Without whom they can't possibly win elections; there aren't enough lefty college professors and celebrities to carry a single constituency...

That wasn't entirely fair...

In addition to lefty college professors and celebrities, even without the working class, Labour can also count on the middle class civil servants and the work shy bone idle dole dependents to be in their corner...

(Of course depending on the work-shy, bone idle, dole dependent types to provide the margin of victory can be problematic... Just ask the Scottish Nationalists... )

[Gob]

[wesw]

so labor is red and tories are blue?

I say, ukip looks to be a bit of a juggernaut

[MajGenl.Meade]

Yes wes - the left wing is of course red. Communists - keep the red flag flying etc.
Only Usians would f**k that up

Sing together - Gob you know the tune

The working class
can kiss my arse
I've got the foreman's job at last
out of work and on the dole
Stick the red flag
up your h.... well never mind

[wesw]

good. that s one reason I can t be a republican. I really dislike the color red.

on the other hand, I like non conformity, any idiot can use the metric system

[MajGenl.Meade]

wes has now officially passed Gob's total of posts - in just one thread too

[wesw]

hey!

if I don t keep my mind busy this freakin methadone withdrawal is gonna drive me freakin insane.

shouldn t last too long, I weaned off to a degree.

[MajGenl.Meade]

So you're a weiner?

[wesw]

that was hard to swallow

[wesw]

scooter may be right about protest votes in by elections. I may just vote for anyone who is not a democrat or republican in the mid terms