Saturday 9 February 2019

FARAGE AND THE POLITICS OF DIVISION

Farage has set up a new political entity, The Brexit Party (HERE), which should be good news for Labour. Anything which divides the right must be good news for the left. But this is a Farage speciality isn't it. If he was the only member of the party it would still have division, argument, acrimony and infighting. Political parties are usually created to get things done, Farage's are always in the business of destroying things aren't they? If it isn't the EU, it's the Tories and now UKIP.

Of course, the Brexit party will become exactly like UKIP, a vehicle for his self-promotion. It's not even about politics, it's about him and his desperate need for attention. He has to be the leader, nothing less will do. 

The irony of it all is that Brexit was the result of the Conservative party trying to outflank UKIP,  to destroy it's entire raison d'ĂȘtre and consolidate the right. Well that hasn't worked out too well has it?

Now the Tories will have both UKIP and Farage's new party to share the right wing vote with. The Telegraph are already claiming thousands of members are switching to the new party (HERE).

In the years between 2010-16 Cameron only had UKIP to worry about. Now Mrs May or her successor will have Brexit, UKIP and Farage's latest offspring to keep them busy. Conservatives may come to view Brexit as a Phyrric victory. The nation will be paying for it with a generation of turmoil and upheaval, which our children will never forgive us for.

The Spectator, no friend of Labour, says it spell trouble for the Tories (HERE).

Farage won't return to UKIP because the latest leader, Gerard Batten, appointed Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, as a political advisor. A report in the Daily Mail (HERE) says:

"Last week Mr Farage boasted to the BBC that he had ‘pretty much single-handedly killed off the BNP’, adding he had always fought to make Ukip ‘a non-racist, non-sectarian party’, but Mr Batten had ‘blown a hole’ in that with his flirtation with Mr Robinson".

Standing in front of a UKIP poster on a giant billboard (HERE) suggesting millions of coloured immigrants were coming into the country was Nigel's way of fighting to make UKIP a non-racist party. What was he thinking?