UKIP launch controversial campaign amid funding furore
Jonathan Lindsell, 22 April 2014
Parliament is on holiday, so the media’s keen to seize on any hint of a story. This emerged yesterday: UKIP has unveiled posters for the European Parliamentary elections. Nigel Farage kicks off the campaign proper with a speech in Sheffield at 13:00. The posters’ content is stirring up a storm, as was intended.
Like he tried in the second EU debate, Farage is explicitly targeting wavering Labour voters as well as ex-Conservatives. He will try to tap the Bennite vein of patriotic self-determination as well as repeating the now-familiar Kipper refrains on jobs, immigration and taxes. The posters themselves focus on these, asking who “really runs this country”, whose jobs 26m migrants will be after, and implying the EU is turning British workers into homeless beggars.
Columnists have wasted no time comparing the posters to those of past BNP campaigns (“British Jobs For British Workers”) and making straightforward attacks. Both The Telegraph and Labour MP Mike Gapes called the posters “racist” and “extreme right”. Given various parties made ‘British jobs’ calls in the last decade (Messrs Brown and Hague), this could be seen as recycling a straightforward, effective message.
Farage declared himself happy to “ruffle a few feathers among the chattering classes” – with £1.5 million from former Tory donor Paul Sykes, UKIP can afford to make their point. Of course, this point comes without any manifesto – a beautiful simplicity, minimalist politics.
This contrasts with the Conservatives, for whom such a clear message seems elusive. Today they’re launching what looks decidedly like a Keynesian stimulus – £36,000,000,000 for 200 projects and 150,000 jobs –while maintaining their austerity piety. Cameron has been preaching that he loves God but today insulted the Bishop of Oxford. Conservative MPs are off to Brussels for a constructive renegotiation, but at home Lord Lawson is embracing Brexit. The front bench had promised to legalise fox hunting, but now don’t even want a free vote on it. We should all be saving – until we buy Lamborghinis with our pension funds.
Meanwhile Labour hired David Axelrod. ‘Axe’ was Obama’s guru for both Democrat victories, a hard-nosed fighter who’s sure to bring some direction to Camp Miliband. The Lib Dems already joined the outsourcing bandwagon – Clegg’s election maestro is Ryan Coetzee. This South African reorganised the Democratic Alliance party, the ANC’s main opposition, and boosted support enough to deny the ANC a ‘supermajority’. Truly, an underdog’s champion.
UKIP aren’t trouble-free. The Times is crusading against Farage and his questionable accounting practices. Farage looked into the camera, flushed with an easy victory over the pro-EU camp, and exhorted viewers: “Come and join the people’s army. Let’s topple the establishment who got us into this mess.” He probably didn’t expect the establishment to hit back so quickly with allegations of serious fraud– and not just The Times. From the left, the New Statesman’s averaging two UKIP-critical blogs/day. This doesn’t just demonstrate Farage’s ability to provoke opprobrium from all quarters – it shows he’s seen as a genuine threat.
If there had been no post-1945 mass immigration into Britain …
Robert Henderson
Without mass immigration we should not have ….
1. A rapidly rising population. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/06/uk-population-rise-ons
2. Ethnic minority ghettoes. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100047117/britains-ethnic-ghettos-mean-liberals-can-wave-goodbye-to-their-dream-of-scandinavian-social-democracy/
3. Race relations legislation, most notably the Race Relations Act of 1976. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/74
4. Gross interferences with free speech such as those in the 1976 Race Relations Act and 1986 Public Order Act arising from the British elite’s determination and need (from their point of view) to suppress dissent about immigration and its consequences.
5. Native Britons being charged with criminal offences and, in increasing numbers of cases, finding themselves in prison for expressing their opposition to mass immigration or for being non-PC about immigrants and British born ethnic and racial minorities. http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/the-oppression-of-emma-west-the-politically-correct-end-game-plays-out/
6. Native Britons losing their jobs simply for beings non-pc about immigration and ethnic and racial minorities. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239765/Park-ranger-sacked-racist-joke-wins-40k-compensation-tribunal-tells-council-skin-colour-fact-life.html
7. Such a virulent political correctness, because the central plank of the creed – race – would have been removed or at least made insignificant. Without large numbers of racial and ethnic minorities to either act as the clients of the politically correct or to offer a threat of serious civil unrest to provide the politically correct with a reason to enact authoritarian laws banning free discussion about the effects of immigration, “antiracism” would have little traction. Moreover, without the massive political leverage race has provided, political correctness in its other areas, most notably homosexuality and feminism, would have been much more difficult to inject into British society. But even if political correctness had been robbed of its dominant racial aspect whilst leaving the rest of the ideology as potent as it is now, it would be a trivial thing compared to the ideology with its dominant racial aspect intact. Changes to the status of homosexuals and women do not fundamentally alter the nature of a society by destroying its natural homogeneity. Moreover, customs and laws can always be altered peacefully. A country with large unassimilable minorities cannot be altered peacefully.
8. State sponsored multiculturalism, which is now institutionalised within British public service and the state educational system. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12371994 http://www.end-racism.org/
9. Islamic terrorism. https://www.mi5.gov.uk/home/mi5-history/mi5-today/the-rise-of-the-islamist-terrorist-threat.html
10. The creeping introduction of Sharia Law through such things as the toleration of sharia courts to settle disputes between Muslims provided both parties agree. The idea that such agreement is voluntary is highly suspect because of the pressure from within the Muslim population for Muslims to conform to Sharia law and to settle disputes within the Muslim population. But even if it was always entirely voluntary, it would be wrong in principle to have an alien system of law accepted as a rival to the law of the land because inevitably it would undermine the idea of the rule of law and further isolate Muslims from the mainstream. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10778554/The-feisty-baroness-defending-voiceless-Muslim-women.html
11. Muslims Schools which fail to conform to the national curriculum at best and at worst are vehicles for the promotion of Islamic supremacist ideas. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10777054/Ofsted-chief-to-take-charge-of-probe-into-Islamic-school-plot.html
12. A calamitous housing shortage. http://www.jrf.org.uk/media-centre/shortage-homes-over-next-20-years-threatens-deepening-housing-crisis
13. Housing Associations which cater solely for ethnic and racial minority groups. http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-truth-about-social-housing-and-ethnic-minorities/
14. A serious and growing shortage of school places, especially primary school places http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23931974
15. Health tourism on a huge scale http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8880071/international-health-service/
16 Benefit tourism on a massive scale. http://www.migrationwatchuk.co.uk/pdfs/BP1_37.pdf
17 . Such crowded roads and public transport. http://www.london.gov.uk/media/assembly-press-releases/2013/10/fears-of-future-overcrowding-due-to-167-million-more-london-bus
18. Such a low wage economy. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/17/eastern-european-immigration-hits-wages
19. Such high unemployment and underemployment. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/13/uk-employment-figures_n_4265134.html
20. Such a need for the taxpayer to subsidise those in work because of the under cutting of wages by immigrants. http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/majority-of-new-housing-benefit-claimants-in-work/6521183.article
21. Areas of work effectively off limits to white Britons because either an area of work is controlled by foreigners or British born ethnic minorities, both of whom only employ those of their own nationality and/or ethnicity, or unscrupulous British employers who use foreigners and ethnic minorities because they are cheap and easier to control. http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/800000-uk-jobs-advertised-across-europe–and-foreign-jobseekers-even-get-travelling-costs-8734731.html
22 As much crime (and particularly violent crime) because foreigners and British born blacks and Asians commit a disproportionately large proportion of UK crime, for example see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2522270/Foreign-prisoner-total-11-000.html
and
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/269399/Race-and-cjs-2012.pdf
and
http://englandcalling.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/the-black-instigated-and-dominated-2011-riots-and-the-great-elite-lie/
23. Double standards in applying the law to the white native population and immigrants, with the white native population being frequently treated more harshly than blacks, Asians and white first generation immigrants. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/07/female-gang-who-attacked-woman-spared-jail_n_1133734.html
24. Female genital mutilation. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/15/fgm-first-suspects-charged-court
25. “Honour” killings. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/honourcrimes/crimesofhonour_1.shtml#h2
26. Forced marriages. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/honourcrimes/crimesofhonour_1.shtml#h2
27. Widespread electoral fraud. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10557364/Election-watchdog-demands-action-amid-fears-of-Asian-voter-fraud.html
We would have ……
1. A very homogenous country, as it used to be.
2. No fear of speaking our minds about race and immigration.
3. No fear of speaking our minds about foreigners.
4. No fear of being proud of our country and Western culture generally.
5. No people being sent to prison for simply saying what they thought about race and ethnicity.
6. Much less political correctness.
7. Equality before the law in as far as that is humanly possible.
8. A stable population.
9. Plentiful housing, both rented and for purchase, at a price the ordinary working man or woman can afford.
10. Abundant school places.
11. An NHS with much shorter waiting lists and staffed overwhelmingly with native Britons. Those who claim that the NHS would collapse with foreign staff should ask themselves one question: if that is the case, how do areas of the UK with few racial or ethnic minority people manage to recruit native born Britons to do the work?
12. A higher wage economy .
13. Far more native Britons in employment.
14. No areas of work effectively off limits to white Britons because either an area of work is controlled by foreigners or British born ethnic minorities, both of whom only employ those of their own nationality and/or ethnicity, or unscrupulous British employers who use foreigners and ethnic minorities because they are cheap and easier to control.
15. A much lower benefit bill for those of working age.
16. Substantially less crime.
17. An honest electoral system.