UKIP must be mad to want Thanet South to be re-run.
Due to a carry-on with the local airport, its organisation on the ground and its municipal base have already collapsed there.
But even if that had not been the case, then Nigel Farage would still have lost again. And that would have been the end of UKIP. It still would be.
Not only of UKIP, either. Of immigration as an electoral issue. It would take 10 years to bring it back, and by then it would be impossible to do so.
There is no debate about British or Irish immigration to Australia, or about Irish or Italian immigration to New York, or about English Puritan immigration to Massachusetts.
The answer to the question of Hispanic immigration to the United States will be either the crushing of Donald Trump by whoever is the Democratic nominee, or, less probably, the nomination of Ted Cruz instead even by the Republican Party.
UKIP's performance at last year's General Election was so poor, and its solitary MP is in any case a true believing anarcho-capitalist who therefore advocates a policy of absolutely no immigration controls whatever (making him the only MP to hold that view), that there is arguably already no debate to be had on immigration.
A few months from now, Sadiq Khan is going to become the Mayor of London. In either second or third place will be George Galloway, who, like Ken Livingstone, is nothing if not an authentic member of the white working class, and whose views are very definite.
Both are standing against a Conservative candidate who is neither a pure blood Anglo-Saxon, nor of immigrant stock as remote as Farage's Huguenot antecedents. Very much like Boris Johnson, but this time with the name to prove it.
The world will notice.
""UKIP's performance at last year's General Election was so poor,""
ReplyDeleteAre you completely mad? UKIP's performance at the General Election was extraordinary-it won 4 million votes!
It's performance was POOR? It got almost three times as many votes as the SNP.
And, as for Respect and the Greens, well...
I think we can dismiss the rest of your post, after that tripe.
UKIP won one seat. One. Out of 650. It had twice that number before the Election. And even its one MP is now barely in it.
DeleteUKIP is over. And with it, immigration as an electoral issue is probably over, too.
I've explained to you about eighty times on here that UKIP did far better in terms of vote share at the last General Election than parties that won huge Parliamentary representation, including one party that got 56 seats.
ReplyDeleteYou still haven't got it.
I realise now it's because you're just not very bright.
No, it is because I understand how the electoral system works. And always will work.
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