Friday 15 April 2016

Act Together

UKIP and the Brexit Right would be finished if there were a vote this year to stay in the EU.

Or, indeed, if there were a vote this year to leave the EU. What, after all, would then be the point of them?

UKIP is already collapsing in internal rancour, and it is rapidly running out of money.

If Britain is still participating in European Elections by 2019, then the Lexit movement that has taken shape this year needs to have its act together.

In order to present a single, full list in every region. So that we could vote, since we should have to, for the reform of the EU in a leftward direction.

Good luck with that. But at least we need the option to express a clear preference for it.

At least as much to send a domestic message as to send any message that might ever register with the EU.

7 comments:

  1. A list with you at the head of it in the North East.

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  2. True enough. If we leave, then we'll have left. If we don't leave, then we'll never leave. Either way, there'll be no point to Ukip and its fellow travellers on the Tory Right. We are living in their last days.

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  3. That's like saying there'd be no point to Tony Benn if we left.

    Absurd comment.

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    1. No, because Tony Benn stood for lots of other things as well. A party that was set up purely in order to secure withdrawal from the EU cannot survive either such withdrawal or that withdrawal's being rendered permanently impossible. One or other of those things is about to happen.

      And Benn did say, in the decades between the 1975 referendum and his own death, that the policies for which he stood could not be implemented without withdrawal from the EU. In that sense, you are right.

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  4. Withdrawal from the EU is the necessary but not sufficient condition for what the Right-and UKIP-wants to do (like ending mass immigration, in UKIP's case).

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    1. UKIP's only MP is a full-throttle anarcho-capitalist who opposes any immigration control whatever. The party's only purpose is withdrawal from the EU, which is either about to happen, or about to be ruled out permanently. Either way, that is the end of UKIP, which is itself the anchor of any Right beyond Cameron. He will be the Right of British politics, with Corbyn as the Left. The twin poles will be Blairism and Bennism. And that will be that.

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    2. Carswell is only against the EU free movement provision (of which Britain freely chooses to have an unusually liberal interpretation) because it does not apply to the rest of the world, too. Of a piece with his views on trade, etc.

      Ukip will take anybody opposed to the EU and that in turn has defined the "populist" Right for a decade. Either referendum result will be the end of all of them. You are right, there will be Blairite Cameron and Bennite Corbyn, and that will be politics.

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