Quote: (07-10-2016 03:26 AM)britchard Wrote:
Quote: (07-10-2016 02:38 AM)IronShark Wrote:
That's very true. As I said apart from Farage, UKIP is pretty much a cucked party equivalent to mainstream Republican party.
Just look at one of their criterias on who can stand as their candidate:
"You will be vetted and your social media will be scrutinised. Please be aware that ‘liking’ or ‘sharing’ anything by a UKIP proscribed party will result in a failed vetting status. For the avoidance of doubt, the proscribed parties and organisations are:
British National Party
National Front
British Freedom Party
British People's Party
English Defence League
Britain First
UK First Party"
That's just to stop any smear campaigns on their candidate and party. Having links with any of those groups mentioned would be a serious problem in UK politics.
UKIP can legitimately claim that it isn't a racist party, and this is accepted by the electorate bar the Corbyn supporting young champagne socialist types. However the other parties are so tied in with ultra-nationalist and even neo-nazi movements that they could never be accepted by the British public. The majority of their members may not be neo-nazis, but those parties do have a few nutters in there.
As for the UKIP leader, I think Nuttall or Kassam wouldn't be bad choices. Just not Carswell or Evans.
Nuttall is not standing for leadership and has given an official statement. And it seems that Kassam is backing Steven Woolfe