2015 UK General Election

[downbeatplumb]

You're right, I was being over simplistic. My apologies.

I would like to talk to some UKIP supporters and see if they are aware of some of the insane shit they are trying to pull. I can't believe it wasn't brought up at the debate.

As David Mitchell puts it UKIP is the party for nasty people.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree...-nice-ukip

One of the problems facing the nasty is that they don't agree about anything – which is probably why Ukip has proved so ungovernable. Some are rich and believe they should pay no tax, others fiddle their benefits. Some hate foreigners, some hate black people, some hate white people, some hate gay people, some hate women, some hate men. They're all out there, bickering about what's horrible, motivated to exercise the franchise, but no politicians want to know. Just last week, Tory Treasury minister Nicky Morgan said: "If we talk about what we hate all the time, we're not talking about what we like." But that's not true: what if what we like is hatred? There's a significant bile-spouting section of the community – just look online.

I almost admired our political class for ignoring those with reprehensible views until I asked myself "Who will those who agree with what David Silvester says about gay people vote for now?" and I realised the answer is almost certainly Ukip. Even though Ukip has disassociated itself from that opinion, the very fact that it had to do so suggests it's a party that homophobes are drawn to.