Between The Devil & The Deep Pinky-Blue Sea
The Collaborationist policies of
Cameron - a seriously lightweight
PR spiv - and Hague - surely one
of the most over-rated politicians of our
age - present UKIP voters with
a desperate & distressing dilemma:
Vote UKIP and get more of
The Brown Terror.
Cameron - a seriously lightweight
PR spiv - and Hague - surely one
of the most over-rated politicians of our
age - present UKIP voters with
a desperate & distressing dilemma:
Vote UKIP and get more of
The Brown Terror.
The current dip in the Conservative Party's poll ratings have brought on considerable jitters in its ranks. Labour has seized on it as evidence that the game is still on and all is to play for. But it has also sharpened the nature of the personal decision that some voters will have to make about their vote come the General Election.
The problem that faces the many people who voted UKIP in June 2009 - 2.5 million of them - and put it into second place at the Euro elections is a frankly appalling, not to say distressing, one.
Does one vote for UKIP again as the party with the best policy on the EU and risk another bout of Gordon Brown socialism or vote Tory to get Brown out but face having Cameron claim one's vote as support for his EU policy - a policy which is not simply risible but deeply subversive of the UK's sovereignty and independence?
Many will, one suspects, swallow their understandable and considerable distaste for Cameron and his party's Collaborationist policies and 'lend' their votes to him just to see the back - and perhaps the humiliation - of Gordon Brown. But then to have Cameron claim it as vindication of his EU policies would stick in many craws.
Perhaps we should ask the people of Great Yarmouth where a solid UKIP vote might deny the Tories a win against a non-incumbent Labour candidate. What has the Labour Party and the EU ever done for Great Yarmouth beyond destroying a fishing industry with a thousand years of history?
Personally I may not face the dilemma. Phillip Hollobone here in Kettering is a member of the 'Better Off Out' campaign and may well thus avoid a UKIP candidature. But I would still find it impossible to vote for him and risk that vote being trumpeted as vindication of Cameron's EU stance - a stance that I regard as both deeply flawed and incapable of delivery.
And claim it he will. He does not have the skill, I judge, or the personal courage to acknowledge gracefully the loan of UKIP votes and to acknowledge the principled and deeply-held views many hold. Instead he will be unable to resist abusing UKIP in the campaign and he will crow and crow hard if he wins. It is that that I cannot abide.
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The problem that faces the many people who voted UKIP in June 2009 - 2.5 million of them - and put it into second place at the Euro elections is a frankly appalling, not to say distressing, one.
Does one vote for UKIP again as the party with the best policy on the EU and risk another bout of Gordon Brown socialism or vote Tory to get Brown out but face having Cameron claim one's vote as support for his EU policy - a policy which is not simply risible but deeply subversive of the UK's sovereignty and independence?
Many will, one suspects, swallow their understandable and considerable distaste for Cameron and his party's Collaborationist policies and 'lend' their votes to him just to see the back - and perhaps the humiliation - of Gordon Brown. But then to have Cameron claim it as vindication of his EU policies would stick in many craws.
Perhaps we should ask the people of Great Yarmouth where a solid UKIP vote might deny the Tories a win against a non-incumbent Labour candidate. What has the Labour Party and the EU ever done for Great Yarmouth beyond destroying a fishing industry with a thousand years of history?
Personally I may not face the dilemma. Phillip Hollobone here in Kettering is a member of the 'Better Off Out' campaign and may well thus avoid a UKIP candidature. But I would still find it impossible to vote for him and risk that vote being trumpeted as vindication of Cameron's EU stance - a stance that I regard as both deeply flawed and incapable of delivery.
And claim it he will. He does not have the skill, I judge, or the personal courage to acknowledge gracefully the loan of UKIP votes and to acknowledge the principled and deeply-held views many hold. Instead he will be unable to resist abusing UKIP in the campaign and he will crow and crow hard if he wins. It is that that I cannot abide.
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