Un-patriotic? The last refuge of a scoundrel

patriot

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a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.

WHAT PARTY leader best fits the above definition of a patriot - Clegg, Cameron, Milliband, or Farage? Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, would choose the three main party leaders of course; but the public I believe; even if they disagree with him, would choose Farage.

            

            Mr Hunt has slammed Nigel Farage as unpatriotic; which of course is the very antithesis of what Mr Farage represents. You could describe someone who believes in European federalism as unpatriotic; you can also describe someone who believes in uncontrolled immigration which causes monumental problems for the indigenous people, with respect to the NHS, housing, and education, as unpatriotic: you can describe someone who cuts our military spending but insists on ring-fencing oversees aid, as unpatriotic.

            

            But to accuse, as Mr Hunt does, someone who is anti-federalist, who believes in the survival of the nation state, national sovereignty, national survival, and the supremacy of the nation's laws over all others, as un-patriotic, is simply implausible, naive, and ignorant. Having a Rolls Royce brain does not stop someone acting foolishly or saying stupid things and Mr Hunt is a prime example.

            

            The Conservative Party has long since abandoned the values that made them patriotic. When Margaret Thatcher took her departure from politics; slowly but visibly, the Tory Party eviscerated any idea of "outdated" patriotism in the era of the European Union.

            

             The Tory Party had started to become the party of Europe under Ted Heath, who signed the first treaty that would lead to Maastricht, and Lisbon, which Cameron promised he would never sign, unless, that is, Brown were to accept Cameron's nod and a wink, which he did, and signed it before Cameron came to  power.

            

              The true patriots inside the Tory Party, the euro-sceptic MPs, were treated by their own party leadership in the same way Ukip is now being treated. They were seen as clowns and idiots …swivel- eyed fanatics, and loons, not to be taken seriously. But they were, and still are patriots; despite their feeble natures.

HUNT'S NAME CALLING, is a sign of panic among the political elite. Over the past week, and ever since last year's local election results; Ukip has been targeted by the liberal establishment. By which I mean the three main parties, whose conjoined motto (I am sorry, I know no Latin) should be, "We are all social democrats now".

            

             Along with the printed media, who, despite their party loyalties, have united to destroy Farage; we have the BBC weighing in, using its news channel as the mouthpiece for the liberal hegemony. Despite the yearly £3.5 billion in taxes harvested by the BBC; they still smugly insist that their liberal agenda should dominate the airways not only in news , science (global warming), but also in politics and the arts: leaving the many thousands (or even millions?) of us who have nothing in common with such an agenda left having to pay our £145 licence fee on fear of imprisonment… how liberal is that?

            

             Yet all these charges of racism regarding Ukip's posters (we are promised more will appear this week), and Nigel Farage's supposed dalliances with his secretary, and his supposed (it is all supposition), but unproven expenses scandal - as well as the media showing almost every picture they use of Mr Farage, sees him propping up a bar with a pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other: yet none of this has dented Ukip's popularity.

            

             This should tell the Metropolitan elite something. But I am afraid the London bubble under which they live and incestuously socialise around the dinner table, leaves them sublimely ignorant of what the country north of Reading actually thinks. Simply because they care little about what the country outside of London thinks.          

IT IS FAR TOO SOON TO SAY, and such a long way to go. But could it be that a new party is forming (like a nebula in part of our galaxy) that challenges the established triplets, that seek this country's decline within a federal Europe. After all, the Labour Party when it started had its closet communists, just as Ukip has its closet racists. But all Ukip can do, is what Labour did when they proscribed members of the British Communist Party from joining the Labour Party. But as a member of the British Communist Party in the early 1970s; I knew locally of members of the Labour party joining the Communist Party and attending branch meetings - one of whom was a Labour councillor and trade union representative.

            

             All new political parties (as was once the Labour Party) have an embryonic stage, which if Ukip proves triumphant in the European elections, it will have passed; and it will only be the first past the post system that prevents their accession to the green benches in parliament.

JEREMY HUNT, angered by Ukip's advance in the latest opinion poll, which puts his party in third place for the European election, and Ukip in first at 31%, acted irrationally with his comments. For, in the light of day, he could never stand them up. Farage is a patriot par excellence; and, unlike the modern "Tory" party, does not feel shame or embarrassment by being described as such.

            

             Ukip is a seedling that seeks to bloom like Labour once did (in a general election), but can only do so in order to beat the first past the post system if the people (particularly the Tory and Labour core vote) put their trust in it. I am not naive. That age (I am now 64) has long since passed me ; and I have no loyalty to Ukip. I am not a member; but it must, in time, if the party lives up to my expectation, become one of the three main parties replacing the Liberal Democrats, whose main purpose is for this nation to become nothing more than a province within a federal Europe.

            

             Ukip, at the moment, speaks for the British people; even for many of those who, out of life-long loyalty to the main parties will continue to vote for them. Nigel Farage speaks for the indigenous population - a constituency that the three main parties have ignored in their seeding and cultivation of the ideology of Multiculturalism.