Well, this totally blows goats, as we used to say.
Look, I get why people are arguing UKIP reaching the power levels previously enjoyed only by the Green Party or one third of Plaid Cymru isn't something to get particularly upset about, but there's a difference between reaching a level and passing through it on your way up. And I'm really not seeing much to make me think UKIP aren't on the way up. Evil is very much in vogue these days, after all. The far right is on the rise across Europe, and as John Oliver pointed out, when Europe goes far right, it goes far right through Belgium.
(Yes, yes. UKIP isn't as far right as it could be. It's not the BNP or the EDL. But let's not kid ourselves; their far right enough. The biggest difference between UKIP and the BNP is that the former are the kind of people to enact laws surreptitiously aimed at disenfranchising non-white people, as oppose to the latter, who you'd have to figure would ban voting the day after they banned gays, Muslims, and Wales.)
Really about the best spin I can think of to put on all this is that every UKIP parliamentary candidate is an arsehole, any arsehole who wants to join that collection of arseholes must be an arsehole, and if you're the kind of arsehole who likes to vote for that kind of arsehole, then you're the kind of arsehole who doesn't really mind which kind of arsehole the kind of arsehole you like to vote for has decided to hang with whilst being an arsehole.
Which is kind of fun to type, but that's about it. Everything else about this is awful.
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Is it even possible to vote in the UK without voting for arseholes?
Fittingly perhaps they remind me more of the US Republicans than the far right in Europe (I can't think of a direct equivalent in Europe). Particularly how they can appeal to blue collar workers via a populist message while simultaneously pushing a hard right economic agenda.
Republicans was exactly what I was thinking of, though of course the overlap between the GOP and the US far right is non-trivial.
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