From talking to people at the protest I understand those taking part were mainly in support of the labour candidate Will Scobie, although there was a broad spectrum of left wing activists.
The labour party are not hiding their contempt for the democratic system by using their stop Farage slogan on campaign literature, so I wonder whether they ought to be a little more open in what appears to be corporation between themselves and the far left.
It seems a bit rich, that Labour give the impression that they have become a moderate and responsible party, with all the journalist in town, you would think that some of them might just scratch the surface to see what lies underneath.
UKIP as a political party has really been created by the lack of debate from mainstream politicians such as Labour Liberal Democrat and Conservative, unwilling to have an honest debate over the european union.
Seems that Labour are trying to paint UKIP as a bunch of thugs, when in actual fact they themselves created a climate in which honest debate was unavailable.
Sadly mainstream opinion is with UKIP, because Labour in particular have deserted ordinary people a long time ago, and in the process betrayed their own working class based background by gifting jobs, welfare and housing to people with no connection an no loyalty to the UK.
Labour only cares about jobs for the boys the party elite, forget the working class.
Vote for Scobie and who knows what we will get. What nonsense, you will now exactly what you will get, he's been in the local news for long enough now.
ReplyDeleteVote for Farage and who knows what we will get. If he gets in he will be back off to London never to be seen again in Thanet. And who knows who will be left to mind the shop for him. Certainly not a person you will have voted for.
A good argument not elect Latchford Wells Heale or Shonk to District...Theyve hardly shone at KCC and have been under instructions to keep their mouths shut during election
DeleteIf we got rid of them and twerps like Everitt and Iris and Bayford Thanet might actually have a chance of improving. Why are they standing again?
DeleteWell before voters of Thanet give Will his first competitively advertised job, at £67,000.00 plus expenses, a big deal for someone who's most significant jobs so far have been arranged by labour I think we should scrutinise Scobie and local Labour in some detail
ReplyDeleteLikewise Farage, why give him £74,000 as it will be in 2015 and them see him swan off back to London. Better to give it to any local person that will serve the people of Thanet and not just use it as a mean of staying as the UKIP leader.
DeleteYou should be very careful, Mr Flaig, before you start spreading your customary wild-card and ill-informed claims that Labour were in some way behind the protest.
ReplyDeleteFor most democrats, UKIP are a threat and an anathema. Many of their members are racists, homophobes, xenophobes and certainly thuggish in the way they convey their opinions. Many have previously been members of political groups even further to the right than UKIP and of questionable legality. One doesn't have to look beyond Thanet for evidence of that. It is unsurprising that some tar the Party with the same brush that paints so many of their members.
That you continue with your anti-Labour obsession and your obvious promotion of UKIP says much about your own democratic credentials and casts grave doubt on your ever having really been a Liberal Democrat.
If I've made some factual error let me know and I will correct it.
DeleteYes there are some weirdos in UKIP as is the case in many parties including labour
Sorry not supporting labour proves I'm not a liberal, sorry labour are objecting to somewhere between 14 - 18 percent of the population taking part in an election F#¢£ OFF
Stick your grave doubts over the suitability of a know nothing young man with no work experience???????
It is your enthusiastic support for UKIP that proves you are not a liberal. It has absolutely nothing to do with your hatred of the Labour Party. UKIP and the Liberal Democrat Party are poles apart; your new-found belief in the former negates any pretence that you are a liberal.
DeleteYes, there are mavericks in every political party, but UKIP seems to have far more than the "norm", with some in quite senior positions. Many of them have views that are way outside modern-day thinking and social attitudes, and some clearly overlap with the extremes - BNP, EDL and the like.
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ReplyDeletePlease keep your sick and twisted comments for your labour colleagues
DeletePlease keep your sick and twisted comments for your labour colleagues
DeleteSo it looks like another UKIP candidate has open his mouth and put his foot in it. And yes in Ramsgate on Saturday. See tonights Daily Mirror reports UKIP PCC suspension.
ReplyDeleteOnly said he would shoot the asian Conservative candidate in the mouth!
Not a lot of time to hold an enquiry and then selection another candidate.
Careful Tony you could become a grunting bumpkin of hate for all things Labour... like Harrison!
ReplyDelete18:54 if ukip keep sacking all their racist membets wont they just be a pale imitation of the Tories?
ReplyDeleteHeale featured in the Daily Express yesterday when was the leader of the Hammersmith NF...maybe Farage will quietly drop him after the election
ReplyDelete£150m Vattenfall windfarm extension...and £100k donation to TDC for Eastcliff. Iris has dropped the ball again
ReplyDeleteCrikey Tone! Ukip fielding Johnyy Rockard a porn star as candidate. Will you be doing a striptease for the Libdems?
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ReplyDeleteTony come on, they are just Turbo Tories voted for by bigots, Neanderthals, uneducated easily influenced gullible thanetarians, Dim halfwits and Chelsea fans.
ReplyDeletePut it this way I am sure Nigel before he stood for election thought to himself MMMMMM Ok so I need to stand for election, I need somewhere with a population that has low intelligence, are a little bit gullible and even better if they act as though they are all inbred. Herne Bay ?? - No probably a little too intelligent.. Hastings - Maybe it ticks most of the boxes but I need somewhere a little more rundown... Thanet ? Thanet you say Dim, Inbred caveman type people with the intelligence of a peanut Bingo we have the place to stand for election.
All of the above just assumptions but im sure its not far of the truth.
To be fair the Labour crowd are similarly simian.
ReplyDeleteMost interesting will be the District and Town elections with new faces willing to discuss corruption etc.
Bayford will no doubt be keen to discuss Pleasurama and his relationship with Painter and Keegan...
Looks like you've backed both the wrong horses, Mr Flaig…
ReplyDeleteWell Tony it looks like you might as well shut your blog down as you now have no labour run council to moan about!
ReplyDeleteBut before you do just a few thoughts for you. First UKIP need to establish a council run by councillors that are not tainted by the part they played in the previous toxic council even though the new portfolio holders may be inexperienced. Otherwise the council will not benefit from a new start and will still alienate the public. The second point is that Thanet Council will face some very tough economic squeezing by central government: no way is David Cameron going to allow the country's only UKIP led council to be seen as successful. Forget all those promises to Thanet that government ministers made in the run up to the election. This will include the governments backing of Manston. It gets bleaker for Thanet when you consider that KCC hold the funds for local enterprises in the South East.
Maybe the outlook seems rosier to you Tony?