Time for the spokesmen of the main political
parties to roll out excuses and so they did, but the facts are inescapable. Much
as the now desperately cheesy Lib Dems run around wearing the cloak of
martyrdom, that they went into Coalition with the Tories to help save the country,
no-one believes that kind of bullshit anymore. They did it for themselves and public
contempt has rolled over them by the bucket. One of their mouthpieces said on
television that they’ll still be part of Government after next year’s Election.
That’s plain delusional. As for David Cameron he’s been coming out with the
usual guff about it being a protest vote, swearing by all that’s
holy to win the seat back for the Tories next May. Fat chance! If you want to
play King Canute I recommend the Old Vic or somewhere else in London’s theatre
land. As for Labour, after last night Ed and his team are all white van boys
and girls. Waving the England flag is compulsory and anyone who doesn’t, gets
fired! Running scared after UKIP, Ed’s gone all nationalist these days.
Excuses by the bucket load. Come the next
General Election it will all be different sure thing, only most of
Westminster’s politicians know that it won’t. Last Thursday’s result wasn’t a
blip or a protest. It was the shape of things to come. The old game is over.
The Liberal Democrats are dead in the dustbin and David and Ed have got the
genuine shakes. Cameron’s come out with his public school bluster while
Miliband’s taking Labour soft right. It won’t do at all. On the other hand
being seen holding a pint outside Rochester pubs in recent weeks Nigel’s UKIP
has taken the seat but more important than that he’s taken Westminster’s cherry
and what it says is what counts. He and his party want out of Europe and they
want out of uncontrolled unlimited immigration into the UK. In the public mind
that’s what they stood for. They’re a powerful wind of fresh air compared to
the jaded, corrupt political clique at Westminster with its close to three
party alliance supporting EU membership and opposing immigration control. Nigel
and UKIP they see, have an uncompromising contempt for the old Westminster
order and won’t be intimidated or bullied.
The laconic self-effacing Nigel is their
man and UKIP their party of difference. It’s a view that’s been steadily
growing and won’t be turned back. It’s strength, however, comes at a crucial
time in the unfolding, perhaps unravelling of Westminster politics and what may
be best described as old traditional certainties and ties. The Labour Party is
in very deep trouble. It’s strength at Westminster has been historically
guaranteed by thirty to forty safe seats up in Scotland. At the time of Tony
Blair’s election victory for Labour the Tories were all but wiped out north of
the border and the Scottish nationalists were only just up and running. From
1997 onwards the policies of Blair and Brown Labour Government closely
following those of the Tories brought serious hardship for the people of
Scotland, resulting in a fundamental shift of political allegiance. Today the
Scottish Nationalist Party forms the Government up there with a majority of
seats. At the coming General Election in May 2015 it’s likely that the Scottish
Labour Party will lose most of what its’ got left. No more support for Labour
from Scotland that it once absolutely thought it could count on. Thirty to
forty seats down the drain leaving it likely to be in a permanent minority at
Westminster. Worse! Having to rely on support from the Scottish Nationalists
with their seriously more radical, even socialist policies, if they hope to
form a Government!
Far worse still. Mortal dread! With its
traditional working class support increasingly concerned with uncontrolled
immigration, and what with Ed Miliband’s nodding donkey support for European
Union membership, Labour’s facing a fast growing and steady erosion of its
traditional vote in the north of England. There have already been signs plain
as the nose on anyone’s face that Labour’s traditional working class base is
steadily turning to UKIP. If the recent bye-election result in Manchester
wasn’t a serious wake-up call with UKIP running them a deadly close second I
don’t know what is and Nigel Farage knows it. On two political issues that
increasingly count he’s lined up his party to seriously eat into if not gobble
up altogether much of Labour’s heartland with millions of working class votes
flowing his way. Ed Miliband’s got Labour stuck in a mold that millions of people
simply don’t want. The last three months in politics have given him a real
wake-up call and he’s increasingly come out sounding more radical but quite
frankly it’s already too late. He’s been facing a steadily growing radical
populist tide. Not radical in any ideological sense but radical in the sense of
plain pointed difference to what is perceived as traditional Westminster consensus
politics. Nigel has positioned his party as DIFFERENT and the public want
difference.
In short, Labour’s facing a double whammy.
A powerful body blow from Scotland and a right hook from Nigel. UKIP’s ready
and waiting to take Tory votes and probably seats in Essex, Kent, the south and
south-west, but the major prize lies in the Midlands and North. If Labour fails
to position itself on the issues of Europe and uncontrolled immigration in the
next three to four months in the face of a UKIP populist tide, it’s just about done for! Much also depends
on how much support it gets from the populist media. With the Sun and Daily
Mail behind it, it could be on a devastating roll. Sharing power with a Tory
party fast shifting right over Europe. However a large populist vote doesn’t
necessarily transfer into seats. Much depends on the populist media and the
Tories all know it. Support from the populist press for a populist party could
take Nigel high. If not a Prime Minister maybe a king maker!
David Cameron and his centrist support in
the Party have every reason to really run scared. With their loopy Lib Dem
Coalition partners round their throats as many Tory MPs increasingly see it,
there are an easy hundred or more who’ve had quite enough. Above all they want
out of Europe, something that’ll solve the big immigration issue. It’s as
populist as they are. As populist as their Essex and Kent constituents have
become under a tide of seemingly unstoppable East European and mass Muslim
immigration. This Sun and Daily Mail constituency wants out and Nigel will show
them the way. The promised land of a new Westminster where promises made are
promises kept. A holy Covenant in fact between Nigel’s spiritual colleagues, of
the Party itself and an electorate in search of plain speaking. The Tories may
be traditionalist but they know a good thing when they see it and Nigel Farage
knows that they know! If the dominoes are falling many will want to jump on the
bandwagon fast before it’s too late. The UKIP bandwagon that is not a
Thatcherite Tory Party. Nigel says what many of them want to hear. It rings a
chord in their populist gut!
Right now though I want to talk about the
England’s flag and the greatest supporter of the idea that everyone should have
one in their window to show what a genuine patriot they are. Yes you’ve guessed
it, the Milipede! Now let’s follow it through to its logical conclusion in our
new totally patriotic Great England. It has to be every window on every street
and in every town so let’s start with Bath! The town census has been poured
over by an army of clerks and lists have been made. One for every street, mews
and alley. Every house numbered with the names of everyone living there… on the
list. Okay, it’s time for the people of Pulteney Street. Everyone out their
houses, line up and proceed to the flag collection point where your name will
be called. Now here’s your flag. White background with a red cross on it.
It costs you a fiver but never mind. It’s
the price you’re willing to pay for your patriotism. The policeman standing
next to the clerk ticking your name on the list smiles affably. Right, now off you go sir, and make sure
it’s in your window by three. Our hofficer will be round soon to check that
it’s there.
By two o’clock every house in the street
and every flat in every house has got a flag in the window. The whole house
bursting with patriotic pride, and it’s the same in every street all the way
through the town, and in every town and village all the way through the
country. But not in Wales or Scotland ‘cos they’re not English you see! So now
the whole of England’s bursting with flags and everyone’s now properly English.
But wait, there are exceptions. Windows found without the English flag in them
and reported to the police. The names of their occupiers passed on to the Daily
Mail and the Sun so you can read them on the front page. And if they should go
out in the morning they’ll find people waiting there. Oi, is it you ‘oos living ere. So why ‘avent you got a flag in your
window. Well, if you’re not English what are you doing ‘ere then?
What,
you’re refusin to put up the flag. Well we all know your sort don’t we. You
gotta be from Romania or something… Come over ere to take our jobs is it? Well
I can tell you mate, thank god we all voted for Nigel. Well e’s running the
Government these days. In Coalition with Ed Miliband! It was ‘im ooh said we
all ‘ad to ‘ave flags. Well I don’t have to tell you. There are places for
people like you. I mean where you get sent for correctional training. They’ll teach you to put your English flag in the window all right!
Now haven’t you read it all in the Mail?
All the new compulsory training. Your England Independence-New Labour Government insists that
everyone must learn to drive a white van. The Government’s message is simple.
If you can’t drive a white van you’re not English!
So now you’ve got an England flag in your window
and a white van outside your house or in the driveway. And soon your beloved
leader will be visiting the town. Crowd yards deep on the pavement. Parents
holding up their kids. Your teenage son or daughter a member of the Milipede
Youth Movement! You get it don’t you? Or maybe not! You’re living in a white
van country with a flag in every window sporting the cross of St George. Well
maybe you don’t get it because you are part of it all and can’t think outside
the box anymore. That’s the England Independence-Milipede Box! Either
that or you’ve been sent to some boot camp in Essex run by special squads of
police for retraining. Knock all that
middle class shit out of you so that you’re suitably white van people. The new
working class or better still underclass and suitable to re-enter society in
which Nigel is everyone’s hero. The founding father of the New England with the
Milipede his devoted Young Apprentice.
I can hear it all even now… A low cackle then the words, yes my Master!
The scenario of low volume discontent was
set up years ago in the early nineties with increasing immigration that turned
into a flood under Blair and New Labour. And with it came ridiculous decisions
by the Judiciary on the rights and national status of immigrants with an
arsenal of crazily misguided lawyers fancifully
believing they were the conscience of liberalism and the last word in human
rights pleading for the rights of Islamic hard liners and terrorists. In the
early 21st century the tide was purposefully nurtured and allowed to
turn into a flood which coupled with permitted financial criminality, economic
collapse, national instability and a national anxiety that ran ever deep, a
hard, insular nationalist reaction was inevitable. The position of the English
working class as a thoughtful often left leaning social entity collapsed into a
white van characterization of what it had once been with Labour Party
politicians scurrying at breakneck speed to give up every decent value of
communality they ever held. Enter UKIP with its nationalist certainties and a
tide of crosses of St George and English identity running fast ever since.
The English nationalist box is now well and
truly open with millions of people racing headlong towards it. Lower middle
class Essex and Kent, the working class of the Midlands and North and a relatively
new underclass of just about everywhere are leaving traditional ideology and
politics for Nigel and UKIPS own ever confused, own ideological conflicts and
uncertainties. For many, voting for UKIP has become like some kind of salve. Because
you think you know what it stands for and know where it’s going it’s like
taking a pill. Something that will relieve all your anxiety. All your
uncertainty. Nigel knows what he wants
and where he’s going…
It’s like taking a nice sugary biscuit. Nigel’s
yum yum and UKIP something tasty and certain. A man and his party who
understand all your anxiety, about Europeans, about immigrants, about Islamic
terrorists slicing your head off. Suddenly there are bogeymen everywhere but
then there’s Nigel and UKIP, handing out sugary balm and relief. Yes, a vote
for Nigel will make you far more relaxed. Make you feel better and what is more
you’ll know that you’ve done the right thing!
Oh really? Since when did you stop being British and
give up the right to think?
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