Reading the BBC (so-called) coverage of the UKIP conference in Eastbourne made me wonder whether they were actually there.
See this report by Ross Hawkins who I sat next to briefly, whilst I had a cigarette.
This report goes through the usual BBC ritual of attempting to show that UKIP is deeply divided, even though there is scant evidence… Every political party has factions and frictions and UKIP is not alone.
However, the BBC when it ever bothers to mention the UK’s fourth largest political party, spends most of its effort highlighting this aspect.
Despite the BBC’s efforts here are the FACTS:
When Nigel Farage leads the party, they make huge advances in popularity despite the fact that he also has a bit of a Marmite™ effect on some people, however there is scant evidence of a lack of support for his leadership.
UKIP is NOT a “one trick pony”, but it is the only party to consistently point out that despite its full manifesto at every election it has fought in, that the effect of our membership of the EU ensures that most policy is effectively without teeth.
The recent (shall we say) difficulties for those members of the (deeply political rather than pragmatic) Euro and its illegal bailouts, coupled with the BBC’s misrepresentation of the facts, are starting to have an effect on British minds, along with their pockets.
That despite the Brussels funded BBC’s best efforts to hide this, UKIP is not alone amongst the EU member states to have a very strong antagonism to the dictatorial EU. There were speakers in the hall that are leading the fight against it from the Netherlands, from Finland (20% of the popular vote, up from 4%), and from France. There will never be a unified opposition, because rightly, these parties are interested first in representing the views of their own electorates, and long may that be so.
There is no such thing as being “in Europe, but not run by Europe”, members either submit to the bureaucratic dictatorship, or they leave. Consequently, the current “government”, is guilty of misleading the British people in tandem with the BBC and the MSM (excluding the Daily Express), and this is a titanic hurdle that the likes of UKIP have to clear.
Jon Gaunt, who made a rousing speech at the conference, pointed out that even though there were lots of organisations in the UK, that campaign against our continuing membership of the EU, including his recently renamed campaign “UK out of the EU”, that actually joining UKIP was not compulsory, and indeed had positive implications in the battle to get out of the EU.
Finally, the reality is, that the only sensible direction for the people of the UK, is to head resolutely for the EXIT sign, and UKIP is the ONLY nationwide party that is advocating this!
