Nigel Farage new leader of the UK Independence Party
Former Parliamentary candidate for Thanet South, Nigel Farage, is promising to make the UK independence Party 'truly representative' citing what he considers to be 'an enormous vacuum in British politics' , in a television interview he refers to UKIP, opposing the enlargement of the European Community and goes on to explain that the party will be broadening its base of domestic policies, such as lower and simpler taxes, selective education etc.
All pretty good really, but let's be honest, this will be all talk, and really not much difference, from all the claptrap those right wing, idiots in John Major's Tory party, used to come out with. Just out of interest, what happened, to those anti-European MPs who dragged the Conservative Party into near oblivion.
Now the sentiments that Michael Farage, is offering us, lowering taxes, selective education and Britain having its independent trade, are quite seductive but they have failed in the past, Mrs Thatcher attempted lower taxes, it didn't work, selective education fails more kids that it helps, Britain no longer has the Commonwealth and outside of the EC exactly whom are we going to trade with.
Along with many residents of Thanet, I had the opportunity to talk with Mr Farage outside Woolies in Broadstairs and he struck me as an honest and sincere politician, but frankly his appeal and support comes from those who are more rooted in nostalgia, than those of us connected to a 21st century reality.
If nothing else, I hold Mr Farage and his fellow supporters in UKIP, and right-wing Tories responsible for that rather irritating process, we go through when we go abroad, rather than adopt the Euro we plucky Brits, prefer to donate up to 10 per cent of our holiday spending money, to the banks to buy Euros just so that when we return we still have that image of Betty Windsor on our currency.
Anyway good luck to Nigel Farage, I am sure that he is more than capable of stealing a few votes from David Cameron and hopefully he will prevent the Conservatives from gaining office for another five years. Who knows, maybe at the next general election, he could stand again in Thanet South, against Mr Ladyman because who knows what pigs breakfast, Labour's loony left will have made of New Labour by then.
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