Thursday, May 16, 2013

A vote for the ‘clowns’


“I look forward to the day when the Westminster parliament is just a council chamber in Europe”
Kenneth Clarke 1996

TOMORROW ARE THE local elections and I am hoping that Ukip sends a shiver down the spines of all of the main party’s MPs.  One of whom made his presence felt on Sunday, a senior, but failed Tory politician hurled insults at an opponent. In doing so he had no reasoned argument to offer him.

But not only did Ken Clarke (and earlier David Cameron) hurl their abuse, but argued that those they infer are ‘clowns’ and ‘racist’ should return to the Tory fold on Thursday – presumably to a party of the genuine article.
            
           Tomorrow gives an opportunity to upset the social democratic consensus that is represented by the three main parties. Every person who calls his or herself a Tory should vote Ukip. Everyone  like myself, who had been a life-long Labour supporter - should also vote Ukip.
            
           However well Ukip does tomorrow, they will take votes from both the Tory and Labour parties, despite the commentators insistence that their support will come solely from disgruntled Tories. Ukip lays emphasis on the two most important issues after the economy that voters are most concerned about  - issues which the three main parties are afraid to tackle in any meaningful way.
           
           First of all immigration. The politicians know how the indigenous British feel about this issue through their weekend surgeries, as well as through canvassing during by-elections, local elections, and general elections. But, as die-hard multiculturalists, all that has been forthcoming from their mouths is the speech writers rhetoric meant only to  appease and do little else - it is like garnishing an empty plate.
            
           Secondly, we have the wretched European Union on our backs, and, like multiculturalism, encouraged by all the main parties - but using the same garnish. This is why Ukip is being taken seriously. Because none of the main parties take the British people seriously. They are fobbed off by rhetoric, and cheated when such rhetoric leads to nothing. Then cynicism intercedes and parties like Ukip are created to serve a real purpose.

ELECTION’S PROVIDE the law abiding with the one opportunity to protest their grievances against an ill-judged rule by politicians acting against the instincts of the indigenous population. I use the phrase ‘indigenous population’, because, as with the Native Americans and the Australian aborigines, the white British are becoming aboriginal in all but name.
            
            May Ukip be around for a long while, for they have a service to provide the indigenous British. Ukip are the keepers of tradition, nationhood, independence and sovereignty – in fact,  Toryism. For the likes of Ken Clarke to still consider himself  in such a mould is almost ghoulish. After all, Ken pinned his colours to the mast 17 years ago when he wrote in the International Currency Review Vol 23 No 4; ‘I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe’.
           
            I appeal to my many thousands of readers[1] to vote Ukip. The current political class are in social democratic harmony; although they still struggle to find real grievances with each other in order to gain power.
             At 63, and as a lifelong Labour voter, I voted in 2010 for what I hoped would be a Tory government (can you believe it at 60?). I believed Cameron’s salesmanship and believed we would be granted a vote on the Lisbon Treaty, despite the small print of his promise.
            
             After which I learnt to believe that the three main parties were, when it came to Europe, all in cahoots with each other, each feeding their sceptics with whatever rhetorical dross was needed to keep them on board within all parties; but to a greater extent within the Conservative Party.

 Today within the parliamentary Conservative party, such sceptics, many of whom still hold onto the tenancy that is a brilliant mind, but nevertheless sit on the government backbenches. Ukip will amount to nothing unless they can attract to their cause those backbench Conservative Eurosceptics. But even if they do not grab the European hook they are being enticed with; they will not prevent this nation of ours becoming part of Ken Clarke’s wet dream.

UKIP MUST teach the social democratic class a lesson. They can only do this if good Tories  and Labour patriots rally to the cause of, first of all, returning this nation to a two or three party state whose differences were no longer perfunctory  because it little mattered who, apart from class tradition people voted for.
            
             There is a real chance for the people of this country (who are small ‘c’ conservatives by nature) to change the cosy relationship between the main parties. If Labour voters copied the many  Tory ones and voted Ukip, then the two issues that matter most to them as much as they do Tory voters – then it could bring rich rewards. No longer trusting their political rhetoric or promises, the people would make the main parties change, and once more become three distinct and different entities.
           
            So I hope that come tomorrow night and the early hours of Friday morning all the politicians will be running scared.
           


           
           
           



[1] A joke of cause

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