Friday 5 June 2009

Cricked

Poor Michael Crick.

Out he went into the real world, specifically that of Lancashire.

But there he found people who had voted Labour for the County Council but UKIP for the European Parliament. Well done to Auntie, who had ensured that they had probably never heard of No2EU – Yes To Democracy, their natural home this time round. Don’t expect any coverage this time, just as there was none last time, of the fact that half the UKIP vote, based on its geographical distribution, must be Old Labour or (especially in the West Country) Old Liberal rather than Old Tory.

And he found members of the CWU who didn’t think much of Alan Johnson, for whom the BBC is bizarrely still campaigning even this afternoon to stage some sort of putsch against Gordon Brown.

Poor Crick seemed close to tears, and has now returned to the safety and comfort of Beebland. I don’t think that he’ll be visiting Britain again any time soon.

4 comments:

  1. Oh Michael Crick is a regualr visit to Old Trafford. And is not one for prawn sandwiches. I suspect he knows the North of England rather well.
    As I obviously political aware (and even have parchment by way of some kind of academic proof) I have to say that I had never really heard of No2EU either.
    Much as I admire their modernising text speak name....they are little more than an old 1974/75 anti Common Market group.
    In many ways an old dinosaur like myself can identify with them.
    But I hadnt heard of them until a few weeks ago. And in three weeks time most of us will barely remember them.

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  2. That doesn't seem to be what Nigel Farage thinks.

    The new movement is now emerging. If they can just keep the fringe figures off the tops of the lists or whatever. A lesson learned this time, I hope. And rather suspect.

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  3. UKIP is only a Euro party and has a profile. And I find Farage surprisingly pleasant.
    And rather obviously NO2EU has absolutely no profile. And even less of a future.

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  4. No2EU was only set up to contest this election. It has, in itself, no desire for a "future". It is a stage on the way, not the destination.

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