Ukip - why are they gaining support?

[J Ed]

Readable version here

Mr Farage uses an advertisement in Monday's Daily Telegraph to urge Conservative voters to back Ukip. The “loons” description, he says, is “the ultimate insult” from a party leadership that has betrayed the trust of its own supporters.
He writes in the advertisement: “Only an administration run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives, could so arrogantly write off their own supporters.”

Interesting use of Americanisms there...

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Gonna leave this one or 2 other places.

Farage gets the "Hitler/Downfall" meme treatment from the wonderful people at Still Laughing At UKIP on Facebook

 

[butchersapron]

Why are they wonderful - their anti-edl shite was full of disgusting class based prejudice. Were you involved?

 

[Quartz]

Interesting use of Americanisms there...

Not really. It's a subtle dig: they attend colleges at Oxford and Cambridge. It could backfire, as he went to Dulwich College...

 

[J Ed]

Why are they wonderful - their anti-edl shite was full of disgusting class based prejudice. Were you involved?

One of the people involved is a right-wing Sheffield Labour student, absolutely in keeping with his behaviour.

 

[J Ed]

Their opposition to the EU = racism stance is also vomit inducing!

 

[frogwoman]

How exactly is opposing the EU racist?

Have these people been in a coma for the last 20 years or something?

 

[J Ed]

No, they've spent the past 20 years growing up in the sort of middle-class do gooder soft left household where the repetition of tropes like that passes for political education.

 

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Gonna leave this one or 2 other places.

Farage gets the "Hitler/Downfall" meme treatment from the wonderful people at Still Laughing At UKIP on Facebook

Still laughing at ukip? I think they're laughing more.

 

[Joe Reilly]

Gonna leave this one or 2 other places.

Farage gets the "Hitler/Downfall" meme treatment from the wonderful people at Still Laughing At UKIP on Facebook

Latest poll puts them at 22 per cent. Hilarious. Obviously.

 

[J Ed]

They are gonna have to get rid of call me Dave I think

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Who is?

 

[Dogsauce]

Is it worth everyone claiming that they'd support UKIP if they're ever polled just to fuck about with the tories and get them to stick someone unelectable at the helm? (not that they've been elected for nearly 20 years, even with the 'perfect storm' last time). Or is there a danger in doing so and giving the swivel-eyed lot 'momentum' that media/public will latch on to?

 

[Quartz]

It occurs to me that Farage has missed a huge trick: after he got chased out of Scotland, he could have said that it was such a shame as he was going to speak on the importance of having a referendum, and then seguing from the Scottish referendum into a EU referendum.

 

[butchersapron]

You mean he could have said he was in favour of a referendum on the EU? Do you think this was some sort of secret?

 

[Quartz]

You mean he could have said he was in favour of a referendum on the EU?

No, on Scottish independence.

 

[butchersapron]

UKIP already support the scottish referendum. And he/they have been directly linking that to their support for an EU referendum for some time now.

 

[Quartz]

UKIP already support the scottish referendum. And he/they have been directly linking that to their support for an EU referendum for some time now.

But he missed the opportunity to remind people of this.

 

[butchersapron]

UKIP's membership surges towards 30,000

While David Cameron reassures his party's dwindling membership that he would never employ anyone who "sneered" at them, UKIP is attracting thousands of new recruits. A spokesman told me today that the party now has 27,517 members after gaining 2,000 this month and 6,000 since March. Once the backlog is cleared, it expects to have more than 30,000.

Lib-dems own figures say they have 42 000.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

UKIP : Against elites & for the little guy!*

http://www.markpack.org.uk/41203/ukip-meps-vote-against-tackling-tax-evasion/


* claim at variance with facts.

 

[treelover]

Whats with UKIP's silence on the Woolwich events?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Whats with UKIP's silence on the Woolwich events?

They don't need to say anything, people know what they stand for (or what they imagine they stand for).

 

[butchersapron]

Keeping quiet is the best option i think - don't get associated with the fools with Balalaikas but hoover up any electoral anger. People have to stop expecting them to act like the NF or BNP - they are not that sort of party. That's a serious misreading that will only lead you up the garden path.

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

Yep, all they have to do is sit and wait. They will look reasonable compared to Lennon et al.

 

[The39thStep]

They don't need to say anything, people know what they stand for (or what they imagine they stand for).

add three percentage points on there next poll

 

[Joe Reilly]

add three percentage points on there next poll

Plus 60,000 'likes' for the previously moribund EDL overnight.

Pause for a moment.

And you can almost hear Enoch snickering.

 

[The39thStep]

Plus 60,000 'likes' for the previously moribund EDL overnight.

Pause for a moment.

And you can almost hear Enoch snickering.

I was out in a few pubs last night and almost every conversation turned into resentment or a rant about the Woolwich murder.

 

[William of Walworth]

What kind of rants were they?

 

[Joe Reilly]

add three percentage points on there next poll

After the press conference with the family add one percentage point more.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Plus 60,000 'likes' for the previously moribund EDL overnight.

Pause for a moment.

And you can almost hear Enoch snickering.

I heard he was more of a Milky Bar type of fella.