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Half of UKIP's vote at the last European Elections came from disaffected Labour voters who had, and still have, been disenfranchised by the disappearance of the patriotic, social democratic, morally and socially conservative party that they had known.
UKIP's star turn was a former Labour MP, and combining its and the Tories' vote in the North, the Midlands or London gave, and gives, a ludicrously high figure for the number of natural Tories living there. It has failed to keep those voters, including that former MP. But they still want an alternative to New Labour.
These are people who would never vote Tory in a million years. But then, as patriots and as moral and social conservatives, why would they ever have done so?
So the void is being filled.
By the BNP.
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I always thought Robert Kilroy-Silk was very good on gay rights. I certainly remember him giving some Polish chap an earful in a documentary that was following his progress as an MEP.
ReplyDeleteHe was also very supportive on his old TV show, Kilroy.
Perhaps he's a different type of moral and social conservative to you?
He always had an electoral, then a televisual, then an electoral appeal to people considerably less liberal socially than he himself was.
ReplyDeleteAnd at least his programme filled the gap now filled by Jeremy Kyle instead.