Does UKIP have any longevity in politics?

jsmoke said:
You have to be joking?

That's all you hear from the SNP about their feeling that they lack a sense of national identity, or how about Braveheart etc...?
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Given this week a French MSP has joined the ranks of SNP backbenchers including several English SNP MSP's, I don't think it's party politics of personal national identity at all.

You don't have to be born in Scotland to be considered Scottish.
 
As the harbinger of pretty much half the world, British identities are hard to keep nailed down to nationality.

While a lot of the reasons for Scottish born Scots, may be obvious, you forget the vast amount of Scottish relations throughout the rest of the realms, which all have the same heritage, which includes the independence debate.

Its not really relevant, but for Salmond and Co., it is likely their trump (heh) card for naturalising Scotland's position in the world, which was impossible pre-colonisation. (Of course the unfortunate position for Salmond is balancing the state and the support from these "people")

On why Scotland distastes UKIP, who knows, its likely just Edinburgh being a liberal haven (though mostly young folk) and a party now seen as the "real" conservatives, doesn't bode well.
 
The UK is on the road towards a Yugoslavia type civil breakdown with its ancient disputes religious and land based and the newly added religious fault lines from migration.

I hope I am wrong but fear the worse.
 
I want to keep as much of my own money as possible as I work hard but understand that a contribution needs to be made into 'the pot'.

Last time I checked UKIP were a low tax party, advocating a 25% flat tax. Supporting this doesn't make me a racist or mentally retarded. Yes they have some other policies I might not agree with but then there are aspects of ALL political parties I don't like. UKIP seem to be the only party out there atm who realise that the government shouldn't be allowed to confiscate 42%+ of your salary, it's daylight robbery.
 
Mike Shaw, president of Edinburgh University Students' Association's socialist society, who helped to organise the protest, said in a Tweet:

"UKIP protest yesterday branded as 'anti-English'. As a proud Englishman, arrested yesterday for protesting, I dispute these claims."
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StriderX said:
As the harbinger of pretty much half the world, British identities are hard to keep nailed down to nationality.

While a lot of the reasons for Scottish born Scots, may be obvious, you forget the vast amount of Scottish relations throughout the rest of the realms, which all have the same heritage, which includes the independence debate.

Its not really relevant, but for Salmond and Co., it is likely their trump (heh) card for naturalising Scotland's position in the world, which was impossible pre-colonisation. (Of course the unfortunate position for Salmond is balancing the state and the support from these "people")

On why Scotland distastes UKIP, who knows, its likely just Edinburgh being a liberal haven (though mostly young folk) and a party now seen as the "real" conservatives, doesn't bode well.
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What's he doing in Edinburgh trying to fight the Aberdeen by-election anyway?
 
Typical brainless students, flailing their arms, shouting and demanding things that they have no proper life experience in dealing with. Flightful ideologies based on nothing but a moment scratching their arses in a university campus and wanting a bit of fun.

Mindless hypocrites that are given media time and encouraged. I would be frightened to see a world that those idiots envision, you know, lack of reasonable ability to debate, forcing political opposition away through violence?

Sounds marvellous students, marvellous.
 
^I don't think Edinburgh uni students are idiots.

Monkeynut said:
Because he's trying to make inroads into Scotland?
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It tends to be a good idea to go to the relevant city you are campaigning in. The purpose of his visit was to support the candidate in Aberdeen.

Or are people not allowed to vote for his party because you don't approve?
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That has nothing to do with what I've said.
 
eggyoke said:
Typical brainless students, flailing their arms, shouting and demanding things that they have no proper life experience in dealing with. Flightful ideologies based on nothing but a moment scratching their arses in a university campus and wanting a bit of fun.

Mindless hypocrites that are given media time and encouraged. I would be frightened to see a world that those idiots envision, you know, lack of reasonable ability to debate, forcing political opposition away through violence?

Sounds marvellous students, marvellous.
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Exactly, because we know they don't want debate. Because they know, of course, they might lose said debate. Might being probably. Of course, this is rooted in the expectation that their opinions override others, because they're probably the types used to getting their own way. And if Alex 'Ulfric Stormcloak' Salmond has anything to say about it, they will.
 
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