UKIP’s ‘party of the people’ claim in tatters as Farage backs Tory policy
Farage: Does this look even remotely like a man of the people? Or is he a man of means, who intends to be meaner?
Does anybody still support UKIP on the basis of all that guff about being the “party of the people”? If so, they’ll be leaving the party at speed after Nigel Farage said he would betray them in Parliament.
Speaking ahead of the party’s spring conference, Mr Farage said UKIP would back future Tory budgets if they helped eliminate the current deficit by 2018, according to the BBC.
Most damningly, he said George Osborne had failed to meet his deficit targets since 2010 because he had shirked “tough choices”. He means the choices that harm your quality of life while ensuring that the rich can still enjoy theirs.
Farage said far-right Conservative plans – that would really hit working-class and unemployed voters hard, let’s bear in mind – had been hampered by the Liberal Democrats, in a clear appeal to David Cameron. He might as well have jumped up and down, shouting “Choose me! Choose me!” in the event of a hung Parliament.
Here is a man who criticises the Conservatives – not because they have hammered the poor too hard, but because they haven’t hammered hard enough.
Why do poor people continue to support his crackpot party?
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I believe poverty is going to become the biggest issue in the UK this year, given that all the main parties have agreed that austerity measures will continue after the election. However none have or are willing to deal with the bankers who caused the crash, according to Mark Carney (Governor of the Bank of England) or the debt, except to add to it.
So far only 30% of cuts which are apparently required to balance the budget deficit (according to George Osborne) have been introduced. The rest will be after the election. These cuts will have a catastrophic effect on the living standards of the 60% of people in the UK who work and claim benefits.
The lucky ones will have a choice of whether they eat or heat their homes, but the vast majority will potentially be hungry and homeless.
This will continue for as long as the people allow it and eventually the UK will have no choice but to follow Iceland’s lead and reclaim it’s sovereignty.
You need to acknowledge that austerity does not mean the same thing for all political parties. The Conservatives want to inflict cuts totalling around £40 billion on us over the course of the next Parliament – £8 billion per year. Labour would therefore cut less, over the whole Parliament, then the Tories are planning in a year: £7 billion by 2020 or less than £2 billion per year.
Then there are the differences in approach, with the Tories planning to force people to work for less, while Labour intends to introduce the Living Wage for increasing numbers, meaning they wouldn’t have to claim benefits.
You see, they really aren’t all the same – as some would have you believe.
Why do poor people continue to support his crackpot party?
Because he is not PC.He smokes,drinks in a pub,pretends to be the working man’s friend.Also being a racist appeals to those of limited intelligence.All those who I have met that are Kippers are on the whole,not a full shilling.They are three slates short of a roof.
They usually have a chip on their shoulder,hate those who have disabilities with their new cars.But would not like being disabled.Brag that they are,”Hard Working,”when the simple fact is often they cannot stand being at home.The kids drive them bonkers and they like to go to work to socialise with other Kippers.Or try and convert others to be kippers.
They shout in bars,are often bar room lawyers,excel at being armchair generals.Befriend the friendless,they need all the friends they can get.Think immigrants cause traffic jams,unemployment and global warming.This is your average kipper.Very similar to American Red Neck,s.
In short very stupid but very dangerous creatures.
So basically no different at all to the other 3 main parties then. Why do people think Conservatives, Labourites & Liberals are any different. What have they done lately except fill their own pockets. Ukip are being bashed at any opportunity, not because they are bad but because the others can’t handle the competition. Roll on the election and hopefully get out of the money pit that is the EU, not that the other parties want to, after all it’s their jobs in later life if they don’t snide their way into the House of Lords.
“What have they done lately except fill their own pockets”? Really?
What have you done lately except look the wrong way and listen to the wrong people?
(And if you think that’s harsh, it’s nowhere near as inappropriate as what you said about the three ‘main’ parties.)
“So basically no different at all to the other 3 main parties then.”
Well if you insist. Could you explain the point of voting for UKIP at all, given they keep selling themselves on being ‘an alternative’, and yet, according to you, the other parties are no different?
“Why do people think Conservatives, Labourites & Liberals are any different?”
Because they all have different, more clearly defined policies than UKIP.
“What have they done lately except fill their own pockets.”
Like on Wednesday when Ed Miliband proposed a motion in the House to *ban* all MP’s, including himself, from holding a secondary job? That’s filling his own pockets, is it?
“Ukip are being bashed at any opportunity”
As are all the others. The reason it happens to UKIP more is because UKIP give us far, far more opportunities-per-head to bash them than anyone else.
“not because they are bad but because the others can’t handle the competition.”
Can’t handle the competition? Current projections suggest UKIP will struggle to get double figures in terms of seats at the Election. Labour are projected to get roughly *twenty-eight* times as many! How is it you think UKIP, of all parties, is offering serious competition.
“Roll on the election and hopefully get out of the money pit that is the EU, not that the other parties want to, after all it’s their jobs in later life if they don’t snide their way into the House of Lords.”
UKIP’s MEP’s have the worst record of attendance in Strasbourg since last year’s Euro-elections, but are still claiming full expenses. If it’s money-pits and lazy job-clinging that’s your problem in Europe, it’s quite clear that UKIP are not the answer for you.
I’m pretty sure that the majority of new supporters over the last couple of years have only leapt on the bandwagon because a ‘new’ party sounds ‘cool’. A great number of NuKippers I have encountered are not particularly racist or intolerant, they just don’t understand the implications of UKIP’s policies.
Spot on hstorm. The majority of nuKippers are the low-paid or unemployed who have succumbed to the media speil about immigrants taking their jobs and houses etc. UKIP’s popularity is their aim of leaving Europe, who, of course, will take all their migrants back leaving a utopian 100% employment for the true British worker. These people don’t see the underlying racism or give two hoots about any other policies UKIP may or may not have, even though they will be the ones to suffer most.