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Without a doubt we are living through one of the most interesting periods of political intrigue since the seventies. Both major parties are divided, Labour between the new intake and the old guard, the Tories over Brexit. A general election could see voters having to choose between the dangerous fool Jeremy Corbyn and the jumped up popinjay Boris Johnson.
Both parties, but Labour in particular could be threatened by splits and the creation of a new centre party. Votes of "no confidence" have been passed against four moderate Mp's and they seem to be totally unprepared for what the left are going to do next.
Corbyn is not only too weak to prevent these "deselections" despite his public stance against them, but more than likely will welcome the removal of his troublesome opponents. There will be purges, the far-left are in ascendency.
Boris Johnson despite his colourful personal life (about which most people don't really care, this is not the Victorian era) is quite likely to replace the proven quite useless Theresa May.
However there is one more factor to take into account. UKIP has been putting on points in the polls and is about to debate whether they should allow Tommy Robinson former "leader" of the English Defence League (EDL) into the party.
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Kipper Central reports:
Tommy Robinson has told his followers that he would join UKIP if offered party membership, adding that the party would be “mad” to not consider allowing him in.
In a video posted last night to his Facebook page, Tommy Robinson told his almost 1,000,000 followers that he wants UKIP to “electrify” British politics by offering him membership....
The motion, proposed by UKIP’s Family & Children spokesman Alan Craig, reads: “Conference believes that Tommy Robinson is a global figure who stands in the long English tradition of anti-establishment rebels with a cause from Robin Hood to the Suffragettes; admires his campaigns both for #FreeSpeech and to expose the authorities’ decades-long silence and inaction over the industrial-scale child sexual abuse by rape gangs; and requests the NEC to consider offering him membership of UKIP.
Robinson has been seen working with Anne Marie Waters of late and was expected by many to join her much smaller For Britain party.
A revived UKIP could threaten a Tory victory and unless the moderates break away and form a new party (which is sorely needed in my opinion) could possibly lead to a Corbyn led Labour Communist victory.
A Corbyn government would be a disaster for this country. Of that there can be no doubt.
Our politicians should choose well their options. The country's future hangs in the balance.
I have always though the BNP in Blazers tag for UKIP was unfair, in fact all the people who left labour for UKIP, Robert Kilroy silk, Harriet Yeo, Peter shore's widow daughter Darrell Goodliffe, some of the Dagenham Barking councillors, think Nikki Sicnlair, did it because the likes of Emily Thornberry holding the working class inc contempt
ReplyDeletewe've spoke about ann Marie waters who's gone far too far(in your words)previous work fighting the SWP rape cover up party of Andy newman and their link to UAF/Stand up to racism
in fact its more the old school working class trade union brexit labour voter who admired Callaghan and Barbara castle rather than the blue labour wing who've shown interest in Tommy robinson appealing to the working class who deserted labour after being shat on,would this see even more ex labour defect to ukip, Ukip have the plan of getting the Northern labour vote, Stehpen Wolfes defection to the Tories signals that ukip has lost its vote Down south to The Conservatives, up north though? it could split the anti Tory vote and the tories could start to win by default in traditional labour areas
I'm currently reading Anne Marie Waters book Beyond Terror and have just finished the first part where she describes her journey from the left to UKIP and then For Britain. I fully understand part of that journey having undergone that myself. I am however pro-Europe and voted to remain, I do not think it is right like some do to call her a "fascist" but has kept some company I am uncomfortable with. I'll probably publish a review in due course. Health permitting (I get tired easily at the moment).
DeleteI think your second paragraph was probably typed a bit quickly (something I'm prone to) because Andy Newman was not a member of the SWP at the time of the Delta and ran the Socialist Unity blog which originally broke the news about the shenanigans around Martin Smith inside the party.
I am inclined to hope that UKIP does take enough votes from Labour to keep the Tories in power. I absolutely dread a Corbyn government.