Posts under ‘UKIP’

The Tory & the EDL: Afzal Amin and the politics of cynicism

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

As Tory scandals go, it’s a bit of a corker. Forget Grant Shapps and his name-changing hijinks, the furore that has erupted over Afzal Amin’s attempted dealings with the EDL is the real deal.If you don’t know what I’m talking aboutand asking “Afzal who?”, then where have you been? Here is an incriminating extract from […]

Farage’s defeat-courting Tory deal

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

In an announcement that caught no one on the hop, Nigel Farage has announced that his clutch of UKIP MPs would happily prop up a minority Conservative government if it concedes a referendum on EU membership by Christmas. I can’t see that happening myself for all kinds of practical reasons (no time for Dave’s EU […]

McCluskey leads attack on Farage’s promise to axe racial discrimination laws

by Jon Lansman.

Nigel Farage has said he would scrap laws designed to stop racial discrimination in the workplace that he claims are out of date because British society has moved on, making them redundant, and it is, he says, “ludicrous” that employers could not favour a British national for a role over a foreigner. In response, Len McCluskey, leader […]

Rumours of UKIP’s demise are very much exaggerated

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

More’s the pity. There has been some talk (or is it wishful thinking?) that UKIP are a busted flush. They’ve had their moment, but shit’s getting real. As people with lives and interests outside of politics start thinking about who should form the next government, the purple barmy army aren’t going to get much of […]

Uniting against Islamophobia, antisemitism and fascism in Europe

by Billy Hayes.

An ugly situation in Europe is turning nastier. In recent years we’ve seen a growth of racist and populist right wing parties across the continent. Many mainstream politicians have pandered to this development, choosing to blame migrants and the Muslim community for the economic and social problems that austerity has created. On top of this, Western […]

Former chair of Labour executive defects to UKIP after deselection as councillor

by Jon Lansman.

Harriet Yeo who was Chair of the Labour Party from 2012 to 2013 has resigned from the party having been removed as leader of the small Labour group on Ashford council last week for non-attendance at council meetings and a failure to undertake council casework, and, on Monday night, deselected as a candidate for the 2015 local elections. […]

Labour’s Scottish bloodbath … And what needs to be done about it

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

As an ex-Trot, I’ve got previous when it comes to looking at reality and laughing in its face. I’ve been running through those memories … hope that the far left might work together constructively … that a new workers’ party was a go-er … that the paper I used to sell was improving … in […]

The Green surge: explaining it and countering it

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

This week, with 5000 new members, it is reported that the Green parties of Britain (the Scottish Green Party is wholly independent of that in England and Wales) overtook both UKIP and the Liberal Democrats in membership. In many ways, the surge in Green Party membership is more significant and remarkable than the rise of […]

Seven predictions for British politics in 2015

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

Seems like an opportune time to channel my inner Nostradamus. “Serious” political commentators as a rule fight shy of making hard and fast predictions because one’s liable to get shown up, especially as the 2015 election will be a close-run affair with all kinds of political insurgents set to skew the result this way that […]

UKIP and the perils of professionalism

by Phil Burton-Cartledge.

UKIP have the opposite problem to the Conservatives. The Tories are a tuned machine being tested to destruction by the clods in the control room. UKIP on the other hand have a leadership who, in the main, know what they’re doing but are cursed with a jerry-rig thrown together from whatever rusty parts they find […]

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