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How I missed UKIP scoop

Graham Smith | 17:32 UK time, Sunday, 17 October 2010

As the nation waits anxiously for , friends helpfully tell me over dinner last night how I missed a major political scoop. It seems the previous UKIP leader, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, began his quest for control of his party at another dinner party hosted in the very same North Cornwall parish that is my privilege to call home. This was before he perfected the art of dealing with inquisitive TV reporters with the brilliant "Ah, now you're asking me about policy....I'm afraid I haven't actually read the manifesto" before going on to tell voters to back candidates from a rival political party. Nevertheless, a party leader is a party leader. I really should get out more.

Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Personally I find all right wing protest parties a joke, UKIP are fine example of democracy leaking away from the people in this country.

    UKIP can be summed up David Duxbury with the rather transparent anti-asylum line: "Get Lost We're Full". Or Paul Wiffen who blogged about "left-wing scum", wife-beating Romanian gypsies and "Muslim nutters".

    All right wing parties walk a vile line and hold truly unhealthy opinions of the world that surrounds them, they think sensationalist comments attract votes I assure everyone they do not

  • Comment number 2.

    As usual you are out of step with the rest of the Cornish electorate. I seem to remember that in the last Euro elections the UKIP Cornish results were the best in the country. Are you suggesting that we can continue to import foreigners indefinitely? Or that Romanian gypsies don't cause problems? Or that there are a lot of Muslims in the UK who hold views that are unacceptable to the indigenous population.

  • Comment number 3.

    backofanenvelope I am not suggesting anything they are comments from the people I stated they were from, it is not complicated

    Further example
    UKIP: Paul Wiffen is suspended as UKIP's London Chairman (link below)

    "You left-wing **** are all the same, wanting to hand our birthright to Romanian gypsies who beat their wives and children into begging and stealing money they can gamble with, nutters who want to kill us and put us all under medieval Sharia law, the same Africans who sold their Afro-* brothers into a slavery that Britain was the first to abolish (but you still want to apologize for!)"

    Evidence if required



    * = removed by me so as not to cause offence

  • Comment number 4.

    Well, if you remove all the expletives what are you left with? Are you suggesting that there are no Romanian gypsy children begging in London? Are there no Muslims who want to impose Sharia law on the UK? Did not the Africans (and Arabs) engage in large scale slavery before the Europeans arrived in Africa?

    Why is stating these things right-wing?

  • Comment number 5.

    All parties have a few members who can embarrass the rest - Denis MacShane in the Labour party is but one example that springs to mind - but to tar all UKIP members, such as myself, as vile, shows your ignorance.

    Personally, I find the left-wing parties, such as the socialist BNP, vile, ignorant, and ill-informed.

    UKIP stands for freedom, democracy, and a fairer deal for the UK taxpayer. We believe in civic nationalism, not ethnic nationalism.

  • Comment number 6.

    Kitto, I have no problem moving out of Europe, what I do object to is MEP hypocrites and abusive people in politics', how can you expect respect if you act like yobs?

  • Comment number 7.

    Some of us object to abusive people on blogs!

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