Ed West is as bad as Toby Young, and that is saying
something.
Neither of them can really be expected to know this, what with writing only for the national papers, and in Young's case having some kind of residency at the BBC, but being from the North does not automatically make UKIP voters ex-Labour.
In the Northern seats where UKIP has done relatively well (but still not actually, you know, won), UKIP has simply taken over the old second-placed Conservative vote. So what?
And in this poll, most Conservative supporters were in favour of what apparently we now have to pretend are Far Left policies such as having a National Health Service, or renationalising the railways.
Has it occurred to Ed West, to Toby Young, or to any of the rest of them, that it is the tiny number of people in this country who oppose such things who are the extremists?
To the astonishment even of Owen Jones, 40 per cent of UKIP voters believe that the Government should set the retail price of food.
Not quite my view, although it would be a brave Tory who suggested the abolition of farm subsidies. Not Owen's view, either.
But the view of two out of five Home Counties pensioners, and of two out of five of the people who used to vote Conservative in such places as Rotherham and South Shields.
Neither of them can really be expected to know this, what with writing only for the national papers, and in Young's case having some kind of residency at the BBC, but being from the North does not automatically make UKIP voters ex-Labour.
In the Northern seats where UKIP has done relatively well (but still not actually, you know, won), UKIP has simply taken over the old second-placed Conservative vote. So what?
And in this poll, most Conservative supporters were in favour of what apparently we now have to pretend are Far Left policies such as having a National Health Service, or renationalising the railways.
Has it occurred to Ed West, to Toby Young, or to any of the rest of them, that it is the tiny number of people in this country who oppose such things who are the extremists?
To the astonishment even of Owen Jones, 40 per cent of UKIP voters believe that the Government should set the retail price of food.
Not quite my view, although it would be a brave Tory who suggested the abolition of farm subsidies. Not Owen's view, either.
But the view of two out of five Home Counties pensioners, and of two out of five of the people who used to vote Conservative in such places as Rotherham and South Shields.
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