Are Ukip more than just a protest party?

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  • local boy - 10 years ago

    Michael. What is the obsession with the rich getting a tax cut! Are you aware that the top 5% of the people in the country pay around 40% of the tax bill already? People use tax schemes to avoid paying tax. The rich therefore use their money to pay less tax and still contribute a lot. A flat rate of tax for people above a certain threshold would increase tax revenues as it would be unavoidable to pay.

  • localboy - 10 years ago

    I think a lot of people are missing the point here. I am white, I am from a working class background, I am now highly educated (Ph.D.) and I am married to a mixed race person (who has the same background as me). Both of us voted for UKIP and will do so in the general election.

    UKIP is not a protest vote and, like it or not, represents the views of people from across the board. Trying to paint them as racist is shows a lot of people swallow every bit of spin sold to them my the media. We have a situation in this country where political correctness is used as a weapon by liberal minded people to control popular views based on a highly arrogant position that supposed their opinion is correct. What people don't see is that this attitude basically revolves around their opinion that people less educated are too stupid to decide their own fate.

    The sad irony of the situation is this: the people that accuse UKIP of being racist do so with the same level of malice and spite they accuse UKIP of peddling, and undermine their own position. They use violence and intimidation to try and silence a voice they don't agree with - in a way they are more right wing than those they oppose.

    What UKIP have tapped into is an underlying feeling that something is not quite right. That the politicians that currently represent us, do not represent us, and are working towards a hidden agenda. That they lack the backbone to say what is right for fear of their jobs or looking out of place. They do so from a position of privileged that most people don't have. They do not understand normal peoples lives and therefore cannot represent them properly. They ASSUME to understand what the people want and then TELL the people what they are thinking. This is clearly wrong and that tact has been shown to be wrong at these elections.

    This is why I think UKIP is not a protest vote and will continue to gain support. Like it or not, common sense politics is going to gain ground very rapidly as the other parties do not have good answers against it. The reason is they honestly know their policies are rubbish but are consummate debaters - and this comes off as dishonest. This can be seen time and time again when they squirm and morph answers into something that is not relevant to the question. People are not stupid and people have started to look at UKIP and see they are not racist and represent their views. With this win more people will now do this and the effect will snowball.

  • Michael - 10 years ago

    I wonder if any of those people who voted UKIP have read their manifesto. Particularly on Tax. They are proposing the scrapping of the higher rate of taxation and introducing one rate for everyone regardless of income. This would be in the region of 25 to 30%. Or a massive increase for all but the highest paid who would see their tax cut by 15%.

  • robert - 10 years ago

    One of the main reasons i voted UKIP was firstly immigration that has now got out of control, especially from Eastern Europe. One only has to take a walk down Marble arch in London to see huge crowds of Romanian Gypsies un washed, abusive defecating in door ways, this i have witnessed first hand recently. Muggings, shop lifting from these groups is rife. Another reason i have moved away from Labour is because they are the worst NANNY state party we have ever had to suffer in this country with constant interference into our lives. Now a labour government want to ban E cigs that have the potential to save thousands of lives. Most people including myself are sick to death of BIG government meddling into our lives, telling/dictating to us what we can and can't do. We need control back of our borders and control on how we choose to live our lives. Education not regulation is the way forward. This is not a protest vote as some main parties suggest, UKIP offer a real and alternative to the pathetic 3 main parties and unless they change their direction and start listening to the people on street level, like myself, then they risk total annihilation in the general elections. Robert. London. UK

  • Cedders - 10 years ago

    So would-be Labour voters feel betrayed since Iraq, LibDems since the coalition and tuition fees, and natural Conservatives by their party's failure to bring prosperity. And some people are voting in the Euro elections for people who explicitly are anti-EU won't do anything in office. No-one cares what their manifesto is.

    So, yes, obviously it's a protest vote.

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