Post by cleefarqhuar on Oct 10, 2014 13:06:10 GMT
UKIP easily took Clacton with the excellent candidate Douglas Carswell giving UKIP its first ever Westmisnter MP
In Heywood UKIP were within an inch of winning from Labour , just some 800 or so votes behind
So it seems that the political storm started by the Scotch butterfly in Edinburgh, Mr Salmond, has created a hurricane in the UK as a whole. The well-learned cynical disenchantment of voters with Westminster governance has been tangible for some time and the reason for that disenchantment is evident from a cursory look at our political leaders. Clegg. Milliband, Cameron - they look the same, they speak on the same way, their politics are the same, their utter tacit contempt for the electorate is a commonality. They are professional politicians that have lost touch with their profession. So used are they to simply ignoring with lofty disdain that which does not appeal to their 'liberal' instincts has resulted in a divorce from 'populist' policies; in a democracy that is a fatal fault and they all roundly deserve to be consigned to the undemocratic dustbin where they truly belong
They will not accept this dustbinning of course; one of the prime characteristics of a professional politicians is to remain in power at any cost.
If that cost includes adopting democratic politics then they will do just that - at least in word
So we can now expect 'radical' policies on such hitherto trivial nuisances as mass immigration, the failure of multiculturalism, the EU and the very functioning of democracy itself
It remains to be seen whether Mr Farage's victory is the harbinger of a UK political revolution or whether it is simply a public fart that has caused red faces for messrs. Milliband etc. that will soon be covered up with smooth words and blame passing with promises not to fart in public again
But well done Mr Salmond and Mr Farage; you are providing this country with a very necessary service and I hope that Mr Farage' party wins enough seats at Westminster to form a coalition government
(A welcome side issue of these elections is the glorious sight of those pernicously self-righteous parties, The LDs and Greens being wiped out - as they should be politically)
In Heywood UKIP were within an inch of winning from Labour , just some 800 or so votes behind
So it seems that the political storm started by the Scotch butterfly in Edinburgh, Mr Salmond, has created a hurricane in the UK as a whole. The well-learned cynical disenchantment of voters with Westminster governance has been tangible for some time and the reason for that disenchantment is evident from a cursory look at our political leaders. Clegg. Milliband, Cameron - they look the same, they speak on the same way, their politics are the same, their utter tacit contempt for the electorate is a commonality. They are professional politicians that have lost touch with their profession. So used are they to simply ignoring with lofty disdain that which does not appeal to their 'liberal' instincts has resulted in a divorce from 'populist' policies; in a democracy that is a fatal fault and they all roundly deserve to be consigned to the undemocratic dustbin where they truly belong
They will not accept this dustbinning of course; one of the prime characteristics of a professional politicians is to remain in power at any cost.
If that cost includes adopting democratic politics then they will do just that - at least in word
So we can now expect 'radical' policies on such hitherto trivial nuisances as mass immigration, the failure of multiculturalism, the EU and the very functioning of democracy itself
It remains to be seen whether Mr Farage's victory is the harbinger of a UK political revolution or whether it is simply a public fart that has caused red faces for messrs. Milliband etc. that will soon be covered up with smooth words and blame passing with promises not to fart in public again
But well done Mr Salmond and Mr Farage; you are providing this country with a very necessary service and I hope that Mr Farage' party wins enough seats at Westminster to form a coalition government
(A welcome side issue of these elections is the glorious sight of those pernicously self-righteous parties, The LDs and Greens being wiped out - as they should be politically)