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joeyjojo said:
Best thing I've read here in a while :D



Their choice of single issue may mean they do well in the European Parliamentary elections though.
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True, but even then I'd argue their ability influence European policy errs much more on the side of being almost childishly disruptive and causing eyes to roll at terminal velocity. :p
 
TrixiBuG said:
This has made me sad :(

Google 'Daily Mail gives you cancer' and watch/listen to the Russell Howard video (I would post it but it has a swear word at the end)

To think that it is the UK's best selling newspaper :rolleyes: :(
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Only on a Saturday. And even then it's only for the Mary Berry supplement. ;)
 
Theophany said:
UKIP are a single issue party with no prospects of forming a coalition with a major party due to their perceived toxicity. They'll never be in a position to exercise any real domestic power without a sea change in how they are perceived by the majority of the voting public - an unlikely outcome when you have muppets like him and Godfrey Bloom out and about.
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I would disagree, I would say that the increase in popularity has already had an impact on policy due to both Labour and the Conservatives getting "tougher" on immigration.
 
Lyrics for the DM Cancer song

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Thompson_NCL said:
I'd say those figures rather support his point. Australia is a nation we share a great in common with, including a Royal Family, yet they have only marginally more immigrants here than the Romanians with who we share.. well nothing.
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Nothing.. with the exception of a few minor, insignificant things such as being in the same economic and political Union, sharing a supranational independent Parliament, Council, Commission, Court of Justice, Central Bank and even a Nobel Prize.

Nothing indeed. :)
 
Zethor said:
Nothing.. with the exception of a few minor, insignificant things such as being in the same economic and political Union, sharing a supranational independent Parliament, Council, Commission, Court of Justice, Central Bank and even a Nobel Prize.

Nothing indeed. :)
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And all things that were forced upon us and aren't popular.
 
Stewart Lee did a good UKIP rant in his latest stand-up "Much a-Stew About Nothing". Think you guys might like it, it's basically him taking the biscuit out of Paul Nuttall.
 
Zethor said:
Nothing.. with the exception of a few minor, insignificant things such as being in the same economic and political Union, sharing a supranational independent Parliament, Council, Commission, Court of Justice, Central Bank and even a Nobel Prize.

Nothing indeed. :)
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We don't share the same central bank.
 
Before all you liberal fairies get your panties in a twist about a politician saying that the floods was due to tory pro gay marriage policies. Did you bother to seek out the context or any evidence, audio/video of what was actually said. This way you could ascertain if it was said in jest?

Romania only joined in EU in 2007 and uk only opened its borders in 2014. So the 2011 statistics are not very accurate with regards to the point that i made about immigration.

Well we just had nigeria ban homosexuality so we can potentially look forward to a few hundred thousand homosexual nigerians entering the country next, all they have to do is claim asylum. We just had an afghan claim asylum because he is an atheist. But speaking to my SA and aussie friends they can not get in to the uk at all at the moment.
 
TrixiBuG said:
Every time one of them opens their mouth complete drivel comes out that you couldn't make up if you tried. It is quite exceptional.
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Actually (and I'm no defender of UKIP as such) these events highlight the beauty of their set-up.

Unlike other parties, they have no whip system and individual members can essentially hold (and to a point publicly state) any opinion they like. Contrast this to the main parties who's members are severely restricted in displaying any personal opinion outside the core manifesto.

This does of course lead to PR gaffs like we've seen with this Councillor and of course Godfrey Bloom but if you subscribe to the view that you "do not support someone's view but support their right to hold it" then these things become the collateral damage of the greater good of personal freedom.

I'd rather a party had a few outspoken fruitcakes (who are then sacked when the stories they generate affect the party's reputation) as UKIP have than the common, but fake, line that all members of the likes of Labour/Conservative/Lib Dems have.


Sliver said:
We appear to be following America in so much as some of our politicians are ignorant on a galactic scale.
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anything I don't mind said:
Before all you liberal fairies get your panties in a twist about a politician saying that the floods was due to tory pro gay marriage policies.
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Just for info, the guy in question is (or rather was) a Councillor, not a politician.
 
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If UKIP can survive for the next year and morph themselves from a one-issue blue rinse whingefest into an anti big government, anti interference, anti BS, pro democracy, pro common sense, pro 'humility in front of the people' party that Farage seems to be all about, they will be getting my vote.

Unelectable as they stand though, but that is inevitable for party which has grown so fast. They are doing remarkably well considering - I heard they only have a dozen or so permanent staff!
 
anything I don't mind said:
Before all you liberal fairies get your panties in a twist about a politician saying that the floods was due to tory pro gay marriage policies. Did you bother to seek out the context or any evidence, audio/video of what was actually said. This way you could ascertain if it was said in jest?
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It was said perfectly sensibly.

He honestly believes that God is punishing Britain for allowing homosexual marriage. It seems his God has a pretty rubbish aim.
 
RDM said:
It was said perfectly sensibly.

He honestly believes that God is punishing Britain for allowing homosexual marriage. It seems his God has a pretty rubbish aim.
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As Frankie Boyle once said, if God punished parts of the world for homosexuality with floods then Brighton would be like Atlantis right now.
 
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