The Ukip Blackshirts are on the Ramble.

As this blog is read around the world by people from parts of the world as diverse as China, the USA, Australia, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and South and South East Asia, I will start the current edition off with a definition of a British Political party that is currently causing a stir because it won a by-election that was the equivalent of taking candy from a baby.

Definition:  UKip, The United Kingdom Independence Party is a populist, xenophobic political party that is anti-immigration and anti-European Union, and has no coherent policies on the economy, education or health care, other than they consider the NHS (National Health Service) an aberration that should be abolished forthwith. It is a party, that if it was in government, would happily withdraw the United Kingdom from the international stage to become the North Korea of the northern hemisphere.

UKip claims to be an anti-establishment party and attempts to distance themselves from the major parties, who they claim are run by out of touch, privately educated, establishment politicians and backed by rich city donors. Fact: Ukip is lead by Nigel Farage, who is the son of a stockbroker, was privately educated at Dulwich College, and before he entered politics he worked in the City of London as a financier. Fact:: The major donors to Ukip are wealthy bankers who previously belonged to or made large donations to the Tory party. It is a party that perpetuates myths and lies and is predominately supported by ignorant inward looking ‘little Englanders' who either lack the facts or wilfully ignore them for the purposes of self interest.

I agree that Westminster politicians are a discredited political elite,currently attempting to ride to victory at the next General Election, on a tidal wave of populism, who are out of touch, backed by self interested wealthy donors, and have ignored the concerns of ordinary people in favour of promoting their own party political ideologue. The point is so are UKip. The only difference being, UKip do not have any Westminster politicians other than the recent winner of the Clacton by-election, Douglas Carswell, who happens to be privately educated with a background in asset management. Although he claims to be a campaigner against corrupt MP expense claims, he has some shady dealings involving his own expense claims ( Loveseat?) that could do with some explanations. So no change there then. Also he once referred to the party he now represents as ‘barking’. UKip are a populist charade whose policies, or what they have of them ,can be destroyed in a second by applying common sense and intellect. Something the majority of UKip supporters appear to be devoid off. 

The leader of UKip, Nigel Farage, is cut from the same cloth as Prime Minster David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minster Nick Clegg, as well as hundreds of other MP’s. You can find someone like Farage in the bar of every golf and country club or private members club across the land. He is not unique; people like him have existed in Britain for decades. In fact another one is Boris Johnson, currently Tory Mayor of London.

It is interesting how the so-called two most charismatic politicians in Britain at the moment ( that's the view of the deluded and hyperbolic press and media. Not mine), Farage and Johnson, are given such an easy ride by the predominately right wing media. Neither of them are ever held to account or challenged for the many unsubstantiated, politically inept, or errant and misleading claims they make and both are often allowed, by media commentators and journalists alike, to escape any rigorous or robust interrogation of their policies or views. Both are treated like jovial and hale comic turns who provide a few laughs along the way. The only difference between the two,it appears, is that Farage’s predilections seem to be a decent pint and a cigarette, whereas, it appears, Johnson likes to impregnate women who happen not to be his wife.  Make no mistake, beneath Farage’s and Johnson’s bluff exteriors are two very unpleasant and toxic individuals, who, if given the opportunity, would blight the lives of millions of Britons for decades to come.

  

Returning to the subject of the Clacton by-election, as well as the by-election held on the same day in Heywood and Middleton. The UKip victory in Clacton and the Ukip performance in Heywood and Middleton  are being held as  potentially political landscape changing events until you study the numbers and the facts. The Clacton win was a simple case of a standing MP changing his name badge and surfing a wave of misinformation and dissembling. An anecdotal example of this was when a journalist asked a Clacton constituent why he voted UKip. The voter replied ‘because of the immigrants’. The journalist then asked the voter how many immigrants he thought lived and worked in the Clacton area. The reply was ‘there must be millions’. Fact: Clacton is 97.7% white. Unless there are thousands of Eastern Europeans in Clacton, that simple, factually accurate statistic, demonstrates the level of ignorance present within the Clacton electorate. This ignorance is happily fed by UKip propaganda as well as a complicit right wing media. If you changed the name of UKip to National Socialists and went back 90 years, to 1930’s Germany, I think you would find the same level of ignorance would be present as well as a similarly self serving and complicit media.

The Heywood and Middleton result is a similar exercise in spin and misrepresentation of any meaningful analysis. Fact: Labour vote in the 2010 General Election 18499. Labour vote in 2014 by-election 11633. Tory vote 2010 General Election 12528 Tory vote 2014 by-election 3496. UKip vote 2010 General Election 1215. Ukip vote 2014 by-election 11016.  Liberal Democrats vote 2010 General Election 10474. Liberal Democrats vote 2014 by-election 1457. Analysis: Tactical voting.Tory and Libdem voters tactically switched their vote to UKip,  leading to the collapse of the sitting coalition government's (Tory/Liberal Democrat) vote. The reduced Labour vote was due to a low turnout, not Labour voters switching their vote to UKip. The turnout will probably be higher for the General Election next year, so expect Labours large majority to be restored. You would expect so-called professional media commentators and journalists to provide an accurate and rational explanation of voting patterns but instead all they could be bothered to do was crank up the hyperbole and misinform the public, many off whom are happy to be spoon fed this bullcrap. 

So you see, UKip claim to be an anti-establishment party with the interests of the ordinary man on the street at their heart. They claim to be the antidote to the Westminstercentric old world parties, who are lead by privately educated leaders, and backed by powerful and influential corporate interests and wealthy donors, which is strange, because UKip are also lead by a privately educated leader and are also backed by powerful and influential wealthy donors with corporate interests. UKip are hoping to benefit from an ignorant electorate who are susceptible to fear and scaremongering, and who are either unwilling to source accurate information or would just prefer Britain to be turned into a golf and country club version of the Third Reich, standing isolated off the northern coast of mainland Europe. No influence, no opportunity, no hope and with no chance.

UKip, Tories, Labour, Liberal Democrats. You couldn't slide a cigarette paper between any of them. They are all establishment parties beholden to big business, corporate interests and the wealthy. They have no interests in the 99%, other than to harvest their votes every 4/5 years so they can continue their ideological trashing of Britain to the benefit of a wealthy elite. A pox on all their houses.  

There is one difference between UKip and the other establishment parties.The United Kingdom Independence Party are evil and if it were allowed anywhere near the levers of power it would be an absolute disaster for Britain, rather than just the disaster that is currently looming on the horizon.

But I’m no expert; I’m just a man on the street.

Ebola.

I don’t want to say I told you so, but................

A post from my blog dated 8th April 2014.

A Prophecy?

The end of mankind will not be signposted by fiery thunderbolts, floods, famine and plague.

It will be destroyed by Hemorrhagic Fever, otherwise known as ..............

EBOLA.

Posted 1st July 2014.

 “A Nuclear Armageddon will not wipe the human species from the earth. The Ebola Virus will.”

Posted 28th July 2014.

It's Coming!!
Two doctors die of the Ebola virus in Liberia.

Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria. It's coming people! it's coming!

The Question is. Why the sudden panic? It's not as if they haven't had the facts or the time to get themselves organised.

"If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor". ( James).