Newark’s Warning to UKIP – Stop Back-Sliding, Fire Crowther!
It certainly wasn’t a defeat.
The Newark result shows that UKIP is capable of rocking the establishment, hammering a ‘safe’ Tory seat’s majority down to the narrowest of margins, despite what one newspaper described as an ‘invasion’ by Westminster hit-men.
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I also read somewhere that Cameron ‘ordered ‘ every Conservative MP to come to that hitherto unremarkable constituency. And despite that, and the running-dog media doing its now familiar dirty work, Roger Helmer achieved a splendid vote. As the Telegraph reports
Mr Farage said that the Conservatives’ majority in the seat looked to have been cut from 16,000 in 2010 to just 2,500 in the by-election.
No way can the in-crowd claim the UKIP bubble has burst. Although they are already trying to! A Tory win threatens to stop the momentum of the party, which last week won the European Parliament elections. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/byelection/10879200/Newark-by-election-2014-result.html
Fat chance, Torygraph!
And yet….
There is a whiff of appeasement in the upper echelons of what can still fairly be termed the People’s Party.
We saw signs of it when Helmer seemed to back-track on his admirable dissing of the deviant lobby.
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Crowther
James Delingpole, writing in the Spectator, gives a perfect xof Crowther’s unfitness, describing…
…the party’s official response to a local newspaper interview given by Donna Rachel Edmunds, one of Ukip’s new councillors in Lewes, East Sussex, in which she argued — on perfectly sound libertarian principles — that businesses should be free to choose their customer base.
So ardent Christian hoteliers should be at liberty to turn away gay couples as Jewish shopkeepers should be to refuse service to neo-Nazis.
Ukip’s chairman Steve Crowther described this as ‘beyond what is acceptable.’. http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/james-delingpole/9225161/ukip-needs-an-ism-and-i-know-just-the-one/
What a total ASS Crowther is!
Grubbing for the mincing vote, no thought for how he risks forfeiting the thousands, millions, maybe, who rallied to UKIP in the belief that it was unwilling to knuckle under to the ‘gaystapo’ inquisition.
Delingpole puts it rather neatly.
Ukip will only succeed — and deserve to succeed — if it becomes the party of everyone. (Everyone apart from the quango-crats and Eurocrats and human rights lawyers and corporatists and renewable energy rent-seekers and welfare scroungers currently being catered for very nicely by LibLabCon).
Peter and 
Theo are discussing. 
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Theo 10:46 on June 6, 2014 Permalink |
Yes, I have just read this opinion of yours, and Delingpole’s, and you are both to be congratulated, but so is Roger Helmer, who is not a young man but put up a great fight against a bias press, and against hundreds of Tories bussed in from all over the ocuntry.
Crowther is an embarassment, but he’s not Ukip, just a glorified office-boy, who should shut up if he doesnt agree with good activist members like that councillor. He probably doesnt agree with Roger either.
Nigel Farage should invite Delingpole to take the job of chairman, and stop expelling keen ‘Kippers.’
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Peter 11:16 on June 6, 2014 Permalink |
You may be right, in fact you are, I agree Crowther put his foot in his mouth, but Ukip is still the only choice we have on the ballot. Nothing to choose between the other three.
Come a general election, what you correctly call the dirty media will still be firing their smears, but Cameron will not be able to send nearly three hundred MPs, with hangers-on, to one constituency, because they’ll be defending their own against us.
The Tories are also saying lots of hardcore Liberal and Labour supporters joined them to keep Ukip out. Something else that won’t be happening in a nationwide vote.
The fight goes on.
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