Kremmen wrote:
I just hope this is reflected next year. UKIP deserve to do really well and try to reverse the idiotic policies of the last 15 years or so
UKIP have no serious chance of gaining power in a UK general election. If they get a handful of MP's they will have done well.
I could be wrong of course and will buy everyone a pint and eat my hat but I am pretty certain of the outcome. People will not commit when it comes to the big question of who runs the Country and UKIP has no real policy other than let's get the **** out of Europe.
The best chance UKIP have got is to sweep the board at next Month's Euro elections. Give them all a bloody nose.
It will force ALL the mainstreams to commit to a referendum as soon as the next election is done and dusted. UKIP has the ability to split the vote and this seriously worries them..
The issue for the other three "main" parties is that they can't have any real policies while we remain in Europe, since much of the power has been handed over. Hence the largely trivial nature of Westminster politics.
This is why you cannot get a fag paper between any of them. The first one that commits to an open and honest referendum (in much the same way as the Scottish one is being run) with a pro and anti camp and lets the electorate make the decision will go on to run the Country. None of this lets try and renegotiate our position and accept the tit bits Merkel chucks us.
In or out the simple question, once it is settled we can all get on with the rest of our lives.
As for the debate last night..
I enjoyed the blunt way Farage took on the EU's role in the Ukraine crisis and his analysis of Syria was very similar to many posts I've read elsewhere on the Internet and chimes with my own analysis. Putin did play a blinder and he did stop the West attacking Syria. His comments about the Syrian rebels were spot on as well. The MSM have not been quite so upfront with the rebels position and some of the factions have been butchering Christians.
The EU made advances to the Ukraine Government "come and join our club" and while you are at it come join NATO too. All this is true and on the record. They are deliberately poking the Russian bear with a sharp stick, of course he is going to react. How would we react if Eire or France were to allow Russian troops and heavy equipment and armour to exercise close to our borders.
Good for Nigel Farage a stiff dose of speaking truth to power on prime time TV was long overdue. He's not going to be (and personally I wouldn't want him to be) PM, but if he can reshape the way politics is debated by ruthlessly exposing the double speak deployed by mainstream politics and media on the big issues he will have done a great public service.