At last people power seems to be having a serious affect on British politics - and not before time!
Nigel Firage and his UKIP party have recently taken the country by storm by showing that he is in tune with what the majority of us are thinking. At last we have a mouthpiece which with any luck should influence the government to act more in accordance with our desires.
No...I'm not saying that UKIP are a direct threat to the two major parties at the ballot box. OK, so it has swept them both aside at the recent local and European elections but most thinking people will recognise that at this point in time they haven't the specific skills to be able to staff a ruling cabinet.
At the Newark by-election, UKIP had a chance to get its first MP - but failed. The Tories were delighted and wasted no time in expressing this.
I don't think that by putting up a candidate at Newark, UKIP were doing more than testing the water! Nigel didn't expect to win and that's probably why instead of helping with the campaigning at Newark he went ahead with a previously arranged trip to Malta to address a meeting of travel people. Now this is where the Tory party really covered themselves in glory...NOT!
Pictures were plastered all over predominately right wing newspapers showing our much loved chain smoking, boozing Nigel partying with his hosts and one shot showed him with his arm around a very attractive lady. This latter was obviously meant to depict that a bit of extra marital had been going on. What the picture didn't show was that the lady in question had to walk with a crutch and that Nigel was merely performing a gentlemanly act. Talk about dishing the dirt! Its well known that MPs have access to our money in order to fund their frequent jollies so Dave (Cameron) and his mob should get out of their glass houses!
One of the underlying points the Tories were trying to make was that Dave had gone to Newark on four or five occasions to Nigel's zero. By this they tried to depict that UKIP is not a serious party and is only toying with the electorate's affections. Oh what a collection of tiny minds!
Instead of dishing the dirt on UKIP the two major parties should be cosying up to it if they want to succeed at the 2015 general election. I don't expect UKIP to win more than a handful of seats but I'm certain it will hold the balance of power: not in Parliament necessarily but by influencing which candidates win the wards.
Let me say that I'm not a UKIP supporter but like so many others who have avoided political thinking because democracy ends at the ballot box, I'm willing to vote for their candidate in my ward thereby making both Tories and Labour know that we cannot continue to be ignored. A vote for UKIP can take a vote from either of the major parties so they both have to make sure they don't push voters towards Nigel's party and to do that they'll have to stop riding roughshod over us.
Nigel Firage and his UKIP party have recently taken the country by storm by showing that he is in tune with what the majority of us are thinking. At last we have a mouthpiece which with any luck should influence the government to act more in accordance with our desires.
No...I'm not saying that UKIP are a direct threat to the two major parties at the ballot box. OK, so it has swept them both aside at the recent local and European elections but most thinking people will recognise that at this point in time they haven't the specific skills to be able to staff a ruling cabinet.
At the Newark by-election, UKIP had a chance to get its first MP - but failed. The Tories were delighted and wasted no time in expressing this.
I don't think that by putting up a candidate at Newark, UKIP were doing more than testing the water! Nigel didn't expect to win and that's probably why instead of helping with the campaigning at Newark he went ahead with a previously arranged trip to Malta to address a meeting of travel people. Now this is where the Tory party really covered themselves in glory...NOT!
Pictures were plastered all over predominately right wing newspapers showing our much loved chain smoking, boozing Nigel partying with his hosts and one shot showed him with his arm around a very attractive lady. This latter was obviously meant to depict that a bit of extra marital had been going on. What the picture didn't show was that the lady in question had to walk with a crutch and that Nigel was merely performing a gentlemanly act. Talk about dishing the dirt! Its well known that MPs have access to our money in order to fund their frequent jollies so Dave (Cameron) and his mob should get out of their glass houses!
One of the underlying points the Tories were trying to make was that Dave had gone to Newark on four or five occasions to Nigel's zero. By this they tried to depict that UKIP is not a serious party and is only toying with the electorate's affections. Oh what a collection of tiny minds!
Instead of dishing the dirt on UKIP the two major parties should be cosying up to it if they want to succeed at the 2015 general election. I don't expect UKIP to win more than a handful of seats but I'm certain it will hold the balance of power: not in Parliament necessarily but by influencing which candidates win the wards.
Let me say that I'm not a UKIP supporter but like so many others who have avoided political thinking because democracy ends at the ballot box, I'm willing to vote for their candidate in my ward thereby making both Tories and Labour know that we cannot continue to be ignored. A vote for UKIP can take a vote from either of the major parties so they both have to make sure they don't push voters towards Nigel's party and to do that they'll have to stop riding roughshod over us.
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