UKIP - Part 2

It is obvious that many of the people voting for UKIP are doing so for the same reason that many in Scotland are voting SNP, as the only viable alternative to the unacceptable disaster that are the three main Westminster parties. But there the comparison with Scotland ends. UKIP are a genuine danger to British politics and to far too many of the British population. I would ask you to contemplate what many people would be facing if UKIP were to form a government freed from the European Union and particularly the European Court of Justice and the Court of Human Rights.

UKIP are quite genuinely homophobic, sexist and anti worker on top of their hatred for foreigners. Nigel Farage boasts that he is the only politician keeping the flame of Thatcherism alive and it must never be forgotten that he was a former city trader who is steeped in neoliberal free market economics. As a result, one of his policies is to cut the amount of money paid to women in benefits by 50%. UKIP are committed to the privatisation of both the NHS and education, and they are in favour of a flat rate income tax. This means that billionaires will pay the same tax as someone on the minimum wage. This, as I have tried to show in earlier posts is a mechanism for transferring wealth from the bottom up to the top. It means, in practice, that people at the bottom end of the earnings scale are subsidising those at the top. UKIP are very hostile to workers and their unions and one of their policies is to scrap the four weeks holiday with pay provisions and abolish sick pay.

Thus, how would you like to be a worker, a woman, gay, a Muslim or an immigrant in a Britain run by UKIP and free from the restraints of human rights law and the European Union. UKIP are a totally committed neoliberal party who attract people for whom the Tories are too left-wing, and that was not said in jest. They are genuinely dangerous. As a result, can you contemplate the scenario after the next election if the Tories are forced into coalition with them? Of course not all the people who voted for them are racist, but they are quite prepared to turn a blind eye to their racism and homophobia, to their hatreds, to their extremism and to the genuine dangers inherent in their policies. Such wilful blindness has happened before in Europe with appalling consequences. I wasn't going to dwell on the referendum again, but after Thursday, Scottish independence has become an imperative. You have been warned.

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