Exactly.
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Meet The UKIPPERS Sunday Night BBC2
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Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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I'm not so sure it is just UKIP getting bad press, that's just a spin Farage has put on it to bolster the underdog image he's desperately trying to create. Cameron, clegg and milliband all get slated for their failings just as much, they're just not stupid enough to let a program like last night's be made about them.
Under the radar? Are you having a laugh? Gorgeous George always seems to be on the box. I can't think of a single MP who gets a level of media attention so disproportionate to his status
Tom Bombadil
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I rather felt for the press officer lady. How exactly do you deal with morons like that. The fact the councillor couldn't grasp that what she was saying was racist would be unbelievable if i hadn't seen similar on here so many times. And the local chairman and his I was only in the NF for a year bit reminded me of the old joke with the punchline "but you **** one goat".
looney
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- Jul 7, 2003
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I'm talking about back then before he was sacked not now.
pastafarian
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im sorry,you lost me when you considered UKIP could get in power.
the best they can hope for is part of a coalition,their only bargaining chip and only serious policy would be to have a referendum by july 2015,they have already stated this as a political ambition should the coalition become an option,
pastafarian
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i wish they would bring back spitting image.....give them al a hard time equally
midnight_rendezvous
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I don't perceive it to be a possibility (I'm sure those who vote UKIP may do to some degree otherwise why would they vote?) but at the same time that's what people are fundamentally voting for. To do so with no regard to other policies that effect day to day living is short sighted to say the least.
I agree re: their ambition to form a coalition but my exasperation is not so much with the party itself but those who vote for them and actually want them to run the country.
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daveinprague
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midnight_rendezvous
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The tories or labour will give us those anyway. They have a proven track record.
midnight_rendezvous
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True but that doesn't mean we should excuse UKIP of potentially doing the same.
No, but could proceed on the basis that they can't do any worse.
daveinprague
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Yeah, with people in in the party who have previously announced such nonsense as homosexuals having an adverse affect on the weather.
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Having watched the "First 100 days of UKIP" I watched last night's programme with interest. Key points:
1. Their inexperience from top to bottom is worrying. They are people who would struggle to operate at district council level suddenly elevated to national politics. The Deputy Chairman Trevor Shonk, the press officer who resigned and Roseanne were all woefully out of their depth. The Party Deputy Chairman on QT 11 days ago was also woeful, comparing Hitler's takeover of Europe with the EU's keenness to assimilate Ukraine that - according to her - isn't even IN Europe!"
2. There's a lack of a unified party position on key issues, so many candidates simply don't know how they should reply to basic policy questions.
3. It is clear to see why they are keen to get councillors and MPs to defect to UKIP - these defectors are the only ones who know how the political process works.
4. Surely being a former member of the National Front should be enough to stop someone from becoming Chairman of the constituency party in a parliamentary seat, least of all in Farage's own constituency?!
1. Their inexperience from top to bottom is worrying. They are people who would struggle to operate at district council level suddenly elevated to national politics. The Deputy Chairman Trevor Shonk, the press officer who resigned and Roseanne were all woefully out of their depth. The Party Deputy Chairman on QT 11 days ago was also woeful, comparing Hitler's takeover of Europe with the EU's keenness to assimilate Ukraine that - according to her - isn't even IN Europe!"
2. There's a lack of a unified party position on key issues, so many candidates simply don't know how they should reply to basic policy questions.
3. It is clear to see why they are keen to get councillors and MPs to defect to UKIP - these defectors are the only ones who know how the political process works.
4. Surely being a former member of the National Front should be enough to stop someone from becoming Chairman of the constituency party in a parliamentary seat, least of all in Farage's own constituency?!
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Am I the only one that read this thread title as a new reality tv programme about a retired goalkeeper and his family?
Megazone
On his last warning
I thought it was going to be about fishmongers.
But those of us considering voting for UKIP ( and I have done so in the past ) don't believe there is any likelihood of UKIP winning overall - it's highly improbable they will even hold the balance of power. No, I'm considering voting for them based on their almost single policy of getting out of the EU. I don't trust the Tories to do it without constant pressure on their vote from UKIP. Personally I don't think they would have even considered holding a referendum if it wasn't for the fear of UKIP.
I referred to this in an earlier post: Farage brushes this criticism off but a party that's 22 years old and that has fought four general elections should have many clear policies.
They don't even have a set of guidelines on their main issue - the EU. And for a single issue party to be unclear about that single issue is really unforgivable
The Spanish
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even though it was identical timing it could be argued that dull politics started as soon as it went off air, rather than new labour coming to power.