Tag Archives: UKIP

UKIP’s populism could present a greater threat to the left than the right

By Guest | Published: May 20, 2013

If I feel a sense of déjà vu as I watch UKIP’s rise today, just imagine the view from Crosby’s chair at Conservative Party HQ. David Cameron’s election strategist hasn’t just seen this film before – he’s already written the script.

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Prospect of EU exit boosts support for Scottish Independence

By Ed Jacobs | Published: May 20, 2013

With the CBI having already warned of the risks to industry of Britain no longer being at the heart of the European Union, a further uncomfortable truth surrounding the Conservative Party’s increasingly isolationist rhetoric is now becoming apparent.

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Ukip’s 18 per cent debunked

By Guest | Published: May 14, 2013

Today YouGov released poll data that UKIP are on 14 per cent – something that wasn’t news to me as this is exactly the same as the calculations I made last week. However the figure looks decidedly dodgy.

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Blaming the EU is an easy way out. Leaving it would be bad for Britain

By Guest | Published: May 9, 2013

When Europe comes to the fore of politics in Britain, the polls shift in favour of staying, as they did after David Cameron’s speech. When it comes to the crunch, however, the voting public are too clever to turn away from our most valuable relationship.

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UKIP: dumbed down Powellism

By Guest | Published: May 8, 2013

It’s something of a love that dare not speak its name, but Powellism has remained a major subtext on the British right for something like half a century, and the rise of UKIP marks only the latest incarnation of this ongoing infatuation.

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Leave the Tories to worry about UKIP. Let them do a 2005 all over again

By James Bloodworth | Published: May 3, 2013

There is a myth, propagated by much of the commentariat, which says that the public are far to the right of the major parties on three issues – immigration, welfare and the European Union. It is a myth that has been doing the rounds for some time now, but one which will no doubt be given another boost by today’s local election results.

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Just how ‘sticky’ is this Labour vote?

By Richard Carr | Published: May 3, 2013

In terms of forming a Labour government, the only way is not Essex, but it’ll be an important staging post along that path. The signs, it seems, are promising even if work remains to be done.

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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for those we despise, we don’t believe in it at all

By Guest | Published: April 30, 2013

t is no hardship to support the speech of those whom we agree with. For our democracy to thrive, we need to welcome the “fruitcakes and closet racists”, the jihadists and holocaust deniers to the debate.

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Thatcherism and Ukip are the perfect match

By Carl Packman | Published: April 16, 2013

Writing in The Times yesterday (£), Nigel Farage claimed that if Margaret Thatcher was still leader of the Conservative Party there would be no need for Ukip. More specifically he said: “Had she still been in power in 1992, there would have been a referendum on [the Maastricht] treaty, and the need for UKIP would probably never have arisen.”

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Tony Blair compares SNP to Ukip

By Ed Jacobs | Published: March 7, 2013

Tony Blair has launched a scathing attack on those advocating an independent Scotland, comparing them to Ukip as a movement that seeks to pin the blame for the problems of the world on someone else.

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