Well you know what they call that kind of
thing Nick. Someone already said it before me. Thomas Carlyle if memory serves
quite a while back. Patriotism he suggested was
the last refuge of a scoundrel. Well patriotism has many faces. Some are
good, others that go with plain political opportunism stink. In your case it’s
the latter and most of the British electorate as you’ll find out next week will
confirm!
The main focus of your attack is
Euro-sceptic Dark Knight Rising Nigel Farage, the chief protagonist of the Get Out
of Europe Campaign and enemy of just about everyone in the British political
establishment right now. Whether it’s come from the left, right or center, he’s
been a major target in recent weeks of those seeking to cause him political or personal damage
at every opportunity given. There’s been hardly a day when he hasn’t been under
one kind of hammer or another. In the newspapers on a regular basis for
something he’s supposed to have said or hasn’t. For making some kind of
personal or political gaffe blown up out of all proportion and exaggerated into
some kind of major mistake thereby demonstrating his ignorance or ineptitude,
or even gleefully showing him being attacked with eggs on the BBC Establishment
news channel. Everything carefully done to demean and harm the reputation of a
man who has above all kept the major anti-European message of himself and his
Party focused and sharp, steadfastly refusing to enter the smelly melee of the
British political establishment and its endless dirty dealing.
It is this that has won him the enmity of
all the main party politicians who’ve endlessly put out ambivalent or dodgy promises
about their Party’s attitude to membership of the EU whereas Nigel Farage and
UKIP are unequivocal. THEY WANT OUT OF EUROPE. There is a
very real problem for these political leaders with such a message. They know
that a very large number of the British people support it and that Farage and
his Party could well emerge at the top or very close to it at these coming
elections. Something that’s a very clear signal of where the electorate actually
stands in its support for Europe! It’s a terrifying prospect for the
Tory Party which actually wants to keep Britain in the EU and even more
terrifying for Clegg and his Lib-Dem Collaborators who’ve built so much of their
political message around wanting to keep Britain in! These people, already
expecting a serious backlash for their years of opportunism, are now dreading
an additional kick in the teeth for their endless litany of we love immigrants from Europe.
Thus we have his desperate attack on
everyone thinking of voting UKIP, Euro-sceptic and Nigel Farage. It’s
unpatriotic he calls it when it’s actually the last refuge of a man in a cold
sweat desperate to keep his Party falling off the edge of a cliff.
Well you and your mob are actually going to
fall off the edge of a cliff with the electorate doing the pushing. And they’ll
be pushing on behalf of Nigel Farage. He’s Britain’s new political dark knight
rising. Attacked by the British National Party of all parties for being
extremist and racist because he wants to reduce the general weight of
immigration into this country, attacked by the Labour Party and Trades Unions
for being extremist… in terms of social and economic policy not far from the
mark… and attacked by the Tory Party as being someone who wants to take hold of
their mantra from the hard right. Actually why no-one has yet compared him to
Boris Johnson is something of a mystery. The main message from Farage though is
Euro-sceptic and sharp whereas the rhetoric from Johnson is contortionist hard
right bumbling bluster. Can you imagine the two working together?
Boris Johnson wants to be populist. Nigel
Farage doesn’t have to. His message to the British people is deep rooted and
fundamental. It’s based on everything they know and see about Europe today.
Except when they’re on holiday there that is! Europeans are silly, different.
In the south too often lazy. In the east, nasty. With the exception of the Germans,
not very good at doing things. And the French are especially silly! The British
on the other hand are a people apart. Living on an island fortress apart! We
are we and they are a mixture of they. We really don’t dislike them at all but
we just don’t want to be part of them when they all join up together and become
THEM. That’s because we’re US. The
Tories and Lib-Dems want to be part of THEM
for the sake of business opportunity. Labour’s not viscerally sure, not
absolutely convinced, but thinks it’s a good idea to stay where we are and
mumbles a mixed message to that effect.
The message is economic or social but none
of it is emotionally personal. Except that is the message of UKIP and its dark knight.
Sure, there are elements of their message that are both, but fundamental and
underlying it all is the message of difference. That we are British, living on
an island off Europe. There have been times in the past when one way or another
we’ve been connected to Europe but that was mainly for royal and dynastic
purposes. Never, historically, for the fundamental interests of the British
people. If we’re European in any way
it’s at best secondary and we don’t want to be part of something that we’re
actually NOT. It’s the visceral, emotional character of UKIP’s message that
strikes home with such force and correspondence in the mind of the British
electorate, particularly the English. It rings the bell of patriotism so very
different to that pulled by Nick Clegg. He pulls it for IN for reasons
economic, the dark knight pulls it for OUT for reasons emotional.
When the pasty-faced Clegg is attacked for
political reasons, he looks pasty
faced. When Farage is attacked face to face on television he’s clearly
irritated but nonetheless robust in defence. The pressure though is clearly
telling and recently his press spokesman piled in to the rescue. Not that his
boss needed it. In fact you get the feeling that although seriously cheesed
he’s more than capable of looking after himself. What clearly does irritate him
if anything is the often pointless, sometimes clearly malicious, Establishment
contrived nature of the these attacks. They’re all frightened of him so they
all endlessly pile in on a well-calculated feeding frenzy carefully set up to
do him in. It’s this that he so clearly resents. That the attacks are so often
personal as much as political. He clearly has nothing but contempt for the Establishment,
whether it’s political, the media or the State and this Establishment would like
to do nothing more than do this major political new boy on the scene well and
truly in, only they can’t! He’s irrepressible! The more tricks they try the more
he comes bubbling up. His flotation devices the confidence he acquires from the
public support of his message on Europe. This Dark Knight Rising has the
electorate beneath him. His endless buoyant demeanor riding on a swelling tide of emotion from many
millions. His message, their sentiment.
It won’t be long now as to whether we’ll
see him fall off his horse.
Having made these observations however it
is only fair to say that there is another whole side to the story of the
British and Europe. UKIP and its leader draw the bulk of their support from the
working and lower middle classes. Those who regularly visit Mediterranean, south
European and Turkish resorts for package deal holidays. The disgusting alcohol
fuelled drunken, obscene, lewd public behaviour of British youths aged 15-25
from these groups, often physically threatening and violent, is a regular
feature of life in beach resorts and cities across Europe and is only tolerated
because of the money they bring in to seriously impoverished regions like the
Spanish Costas, the Black Sea resorts of Bulgaria and holiday destinations of
Greece. The behaviour of these youths, both boys and girls, is offensive in the
extreme and only tolerated because of the money they spend. However it has given
the British a filthy reputation across Europe. Their adult peer groups alas do
little to counter this and quite frankly if anything only enhance it with public
displays of personal stupidity, cultural disrespect and gross insensitivity,
all very loud and East Enders. You only need to hear them talking to want to
get away from them fast.
True, with UKIP at their head they may be
contemptuous of Europeans and Europe. True the continent produced a hatful of
nasties last century and it took British courage to help sort it all out, but
today things are different. As contemptuous as large numbers of British people
are about Europeans and their institutions, so large numbers of Europeans
really don’t like us at all. They don’t like the way British people behave in
their country and they don’t like their loudness and drunken arrogance. Europe
and Britain… it actually cuts both ways! A large part of our population doesn’t
like them and many of them just don’t like us.
It’s a resentment fuelled over here by UKIP.
Their view that so long as Britain remains within the EU family, this United Nations
of Europe want to take away our independent sovereign power and subjugate us to
their own order. They ask, why stay married at all? A very fair question! On a
personal level there’s clearly not a lot of love lost. In terms of the
Clegg-Lib-Dem argument of business and jobs, Europe provides a hatful of
business opportunities that quite frankly might not last long. Working people
and small business won’t get a lot out of it so if there’s mutual dislike and
disrespect why bother at all?
That’s the real key to it all and next week
the Dark Knight WON’T fall off his horse. Putting it simply we are beginning a
time of dangerous days. Support for UKIP is being won on an anti-European
stance through the issue of immigration, and it’s being won by a populist with
social and economic policies that are definitely anti-working class. The Dark Knight
needs the working class vote over Europe after which he’ll need the lower
middle class vote in next year’s General Election. After next week all kinds of
people will flock to his cause along with plenty of money. He’ll sharpen his
act. Develop a powerful machine. Become someone the so called great and the
good will all want to know! Especially the media. All reasoned protest against
a fast incoming tide dumbed down. Hidden away. His well-guarded rallies growing
larger and larger.
Just remember, you were there at the time.
At the beginning. When it was all just a jovial popular man and a whisper. You
liked the novelty of it all. Sat back and silently watched it all grow. And
when you began to feel worried it was already too late. All those boys and
girls in their uniforms so you weren’t able to say anything. It was so quiet,
the way it all started. You thought the man was quite marvellous yourself. That
dapper face. That velvet collar. That half pint of beer.
And now it’s come to this you still don’t know how it happened. Even though you were there at the time. Even though you were part of it all. It was you who let it happen. Don’t you remember? Don’t you honestly remember how you let it all happen? Because you didn’t want to make a difference you stayed silent. Just went along with it all when the Dark Knight became a focus for everyone’s troubles. That’s when the curtain came down and began the dark knight for us all.
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