Where the foxes caper unmolested, Mohammed packs your school lunch, and all the right people are utterly terrified;
The British media spent 20 years laughing at UKIP. But they’re not laughing now — not when one in four electors takes them seriously enough to vote for them. So, having dismissed him as a joke, Fleet Street now warns that Farage uses his famous sense of humor as a sly cover for his dark totalitarian agenda — the same well-trod path to power used by other famous quipsters and gag-merchants such as Adolf Hitler, whose Nuremberg open-mike nights were legendary. “Nigel Farage is easy to laugh at . . . that means he’s dangerous,” declared the Independent. The Mirror warned of an “unfulfilled capacity for evil.” “Stop laughing,” ordered Jemma Wayne in the British edition of the Huffington Post.
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Farage is a close student of the near-total collapse of the intellectually bankrupt Canadian Conservative party in the early Nineties, and its split into various factions. The western-based Reform party could not get elected nationwide, but they kept certain political ideas in play, which moved the governing Liberals to the right, and eventually enabled them to engineer a reverse takeover of the Tory party. UKIP, likewise, is keeping certain important, indeed existential questions in play, and it’s not inconceivable that Farage, who regards himself as a member of “the Tory family,” could yet engineer a reverse takeover of whatever post-Cameron husk remains half a decade down the road.
But that’s just a sliver, so read the whole thing.
Splendid, good on Nigel. I may have to lift a Guiness or two to his success.
With all the racist Hitler epithets hurled Farage’s way; this sounds exactly like the horror the LIEberals experienced when Preston Manning got started with the Reform Party.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch, the establishment parties have devolved into 45 flavors of ‘progressive’ over the years, so they are probably overdue for a healthy ‘Rumpy-Pumpy’ at the electoral polls.
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What a great article.
Go UKIP!
It is standard procedure for the REAL fascists (i.e., the leftists) to portray those they disagree with as what the leftists are themselves.
Whenever a leftist brings up the Adolf Hitler or fascist argument, I usually post this and they usually go bananas.
Hitler was named “Man of the Year” in 1938 by Time Magazine. They noted Hitler’s anti-capitalistic economic policies:
“Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany’s bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food- stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism.”
(Source: Time Magazine; January 2, 1939.)
Wasn’t the CPC a takeover by the PC party?
Some days it certainly appears that way, as pretty much all of the Reform tenants have disappeared.
Hang in there Nigel and go get the leftist retards, even the ones in the Conservative Party of Britain.
Yeah dysfunctional syndrome….a reliable indicator of who the lefties fear the most.
I am somewhat surprised that Steyne did point out that until Farange’s “Who are you” speech….Nigel Farange was as unknown as Herman van Rompuy. This elevated Farange, to statesamanship and revealed Herman van Rompuy to faceless bureaucrat statis…..a ridiculous figure.
Sort of a “that’s no a knife” moment…..
Yeah Hogan could get elected PM of OZ……in America…..
Across the EU as it goes to the polls this week right leaning parties like the UKIP are standing to makes gains because of the elitist attitudes of the central bureaucracy.
Mike “Wasn’t the CPC a takeover by the PC party?”
Before the parties united, our local executive was the moral fibre backbone of society’s working class and farmers. After it was the usual businessmen and lawyers. The grassroots had something unique and it was gone.
The pinko commies have a hard time believing (because they can’t read?) that the roots of the pinko commies and the grassroot conservatives are identical.
I have been following this interesting bit of Political news for a while now and it all reminds me, particularly this last year, of the rise of the Reform Party and the efforts by the consensus media and the other parties, especially the liberals, to silence portray them as a party with a dark totalitarian agenda. Real people in the real world are beginning to tire of such tactics and are no longer falling for it.
Well, the 30% of the Ontario electorate that are going to vote for the crooks in the Liberal party and the 18% that are going to vote for the NDP are still falling for the crap most of the media peddles.
I’m seeing a lot of the similarities in the collapse of the PCs under Kim Campbell and the ideology of the CPC now. In that, there seems to be a “well, the conservative folk will vote for us anyways so now we pander”. There isn’t much conservatism in the Conservatives anymore.
And people wonder why some of us no longer vote or give a damn.
Nigel needs to be careful now, the UK is full of crazy left wing Elizabeth May types patrolling the institutions in partnership with the Islamic gangs that patrol the streets.
…and the bonehead, Prince Charles.
It is more than likely that those who 30% of the Ontario electorate that vote for the Liberals and the 18% who vote for the NDP are all on the government payroll one way or another. That is the big problem with public sectors when they get too large.
Britain needs to do a Henry viii and flood the Chunnel thereby once again leaving the various iterations of the Merovingian whelps to continue their turf wars.
Possibly more McDonald’s on the corners of their Westminster villages will set aside the neo-toffs from the Socialist-well cooked; Socialist-medium; and the Socialist-red all the way through, Political parties.
More Cockneys, Paddies and Jocks added to the non-city Londoners will not deter the pressure for the English to become a “Title”. It is part of their genetic DNA.
Nope the only solution is to establish the underground aristocracies of France and Germany and then from the inside of Eurotopia move forward with phone and pen to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire. Cheers;
Absolutely not.
Looking at the cpc constitution only one item is a PCPc item – the one thing that MacKay clung to to save face and that was how the leader was/is selected. And that has been under assault at every convention ever since and likely one day will be purged. The rest is reform-grassroots.
The moaning that the cpc has become more moderate over the years is mis-placed. Look at the new items added to the policy platform in recent years and you will see a steadily to the right – as the country has also moved right – things like rtw are now part of the mainstream discussion for example.
That the membership is more broadspectrum is a symptom of success – it is silly and frankly bigoted to deride it.
I have written about this before on this site in the past and likely more than once:
The underlying question is – given that all of the old-line conservative parties have moved to the center and in some cases left of center can they be reformed from within and made grassroots driven conservative parties that stat that way over the long term or is it always necessary to for a new party and then over the years drain the old line party of support and ultimately terminate or absorb that party?
Federally in Canada and provincially – SK and soon likely Ab that would seem to be the case. Internal reform has not worked in on and BC and in the US – the juristiction where a third party seems to be very unlikely the tea party internal effort is having some monumental struggles overthrowing the establishment and more importantly doesn’t seem to be making any headway in making constitutional changes to the GOP.
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“…and the bonehead, Prince Charles.”
Don’t even get me started, “Ivan the Terrible” in drag if there ever was one!
Further to my comment above this gives me some hope regarding conservative reform in the US:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/21/mitch-mcconnell-victory-kentucky-primary-tea-party
Too bad UKIP drifted from its libertarian roots and now focuses on anti-immigration fear mongering. They spent the last several months whipping up hysteria over an invasion of Romanians that never happened.
Look at the new items added to the policy platform in recent years and you will see a steadily to the right – as the country has also moved right
This rightward tilt of the CPC is a figment of your imagination shared by your fellow PMO Palace Guards. The CPC is a full-on statist party. Harper hates freedom. He’d rather have warrant-less wiretaps of my internet than ever bring freer markets to Canada.
As a follower of Eureferendum.com, I see the failings of Farage and the UKIPO. At the same time, I salute him and wish him well.
He is an anti-establishment candidate, like Rob Ford, who even when he does wrong, is taken as a stick in the eye of the establishment.
This mood is quite well distributed in the Western world at present, it is a sign that the establishment has become a modern the Palace of Versaille; with courtiers and arse-wipers and news interpreters.
Alberta may be poised for a reverse take over. I think conservatives in AB have had it with the PC’s and might vote with the Wildrose next time out. Disaffected conservatives have no home with the progressives and that is mostly what the PC’s consist of these days.
I did the numbers the other day. One in three people of the working population are on the government teat one way or another.
The Wildrose already ditched its meaningful planks. It’s PC redux. The takeover already happened-Smith surrendered. The only hope as far as I’m concerned is McIver.
Also, the Tea Party is dead. Kaput. The pro-freedom march can continue but it has to do so with a replacement for the TP. It had its time but it’s over.
Balder dash. Read the link I attached to.
Cruz and Paul – teapartiers and Rubio – a teapartier save the immigration issue are all in contention for the POTUS Nom
As for the Wildrose the softening on Agw was hotly contested and a close vote. Moving to the middle on some issues like environmental law happens on the left and the right. Sometimes you have to pick your battles.
At the end of the day the best and only conservative choice in ab that has a chance of forming the government is the wild rose.
Get of your cranky-assed high horse and support legitimate conservative options.
The link you provided was more left-wing pearls-clutching. Meaningless. Fact is, Super Tuesday was a wipe out. Cruz and Paul are very good and they alone make the TP worth it-they don’t obviate the fact that the TP is dead. COD: bad candidates like Bevin and infiltration by SoCon and anti-amnesty nutjobs.
the softening on Agw was hotly contested and a close vote. Moving to the middle on some issues like environmental law happens on the left and the right. Sometimes you have to pick your battles.
And I have to pick political parties that will fight for free speech. Smith made clear that isn’t her party. The AGW nonsense I can take; the speech betrayal I will not. And it will not win her any votes.
Get of your cranky-assed high horse and support legitimate conservative options.
Typical a-hole arrogant partisan. Both telling me what to do-as if he has any power or influence over me-and then following it up by seizing the cloak of ‘legitimacy’ for his TEAM. FU you want my vote earn it.
So we are to assume you will not vote at all.
Then you surrender to the rest of us.
Too bad UKIP drifted from its libertarian roots and now focuses on anti-immigration fear mongering.
– Just Truth
A strong argument can be made that Farage recognizes that multitudes of immigrants are an attempt by the left to ensure that no conservative government can ever be elected in UK, and feels he must stop unlimited immigration to maintain the possibility of a true change in government, to a libertarian orientation, from the present statist one. It is very clear that this is the strategy of the Democrats in the US. If they can flip Texas, as they have already flipped CA, the right will be out of power for 30 years.
Or, do you feel libertarian policies are just as likely from Labour, as from a UKIP, or a Tory/UKIP coalition government?
Gordy, Gordy, Gordy – You forgot to mention that it is all a Popish Plot!
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It’s just LAS again, ignore it.
Quite right, Gord in all your remarks above. You raise an interesting question about reform from within. It would seem the answer generally is no, because the party establishment has too much invested in the situation as things stand. However, Ontario offers perhaps a different pattern than most. Mike Harris offered a very different brand of conservatism than the Bill Davis/Dennis Timbrell variety, and it worked. Today, Tim Hudak is a very different conservative from the Ernie Eves/John Tory of the past decade or so.
As for Just Truth, ignore it. There are always whiners snivelling that things aren’t perfect in their barbie-doll universe.
The Harris example is an interesting example because it was case where the move right didn’t take. Like thatcher after harris departed the party swing back to the center. I think in both cases it was a result of a lack of structural constitutional reform that prevented ex officios from having power – and that IS what the reform/cpc/sask party/Wildrose do have.
Thus I am less optimistic about Hudak and the chances that the PCPO will move right and stay there
Um. Open immigration is a tenet of libertarianism. Texas shows no signs of flipping. The notion that an immigrant flood will lead to leftist governance forever and ever should have been debunked by the Canadian experience, but nativist fever dreams die hard.
Tim Hudak is a very different conservative from the Ernie Eves/John Tory of the past decade or so.
Only on the surface and to the gullible.
There are always whiners snivelling that things aren’t perfect in their barbie-doll universe.
Can you open a wormhole so I can leave my universe for one where Harper hasn’t quasi-nationalized rail-lines, pushed warrantless wiretapping, ramped up the WoD, and shoved his head totally into his rectum over prostitution?