Here's a photo of Nigel Farage, pint in hand, looking smug in a pub.
Thought I'd post this just in case you haven't seen one recently.
Is there a Tumblr yet?
'Ukip Surge As Voters Reject Gay Marriage', Christian Institute.
This is, of course, utter bollocks, though it's a popular post mortem riff from the Tory right.*
In a YouGov poll published yesterday of people considering voting for Ukip, gay marriage hardly registered as an issue even when people were prompted and asked to give three reasons why out of a list of ten; but what else could they say after they've ticked "Europe" and "immigration"?
And besides, what kind of a nutter protests against marriage equality by voting for Ukip in a local election?
Time to end the disastrous democratic experiment etc etc.
* Tom Newton Dunn, from The Sun no-less, was asked about this on Today this morning, and pooh-poohed the idea, putting it succinctly; "Gay marriage isn't a left or right issue, it's an age issue."
A much-discussed article by David Davis in today's Telegraph, Tories Must Start Listening To Ordinary Voters, Not Their Old School Chums, only seems to allude to this issue in passing; "We have to do more to help conventional families through the hard times,
including serious tax breaks for married couples."
The former Conservative leadership candidate proudly opposes gay marriage.
"UKIP fought the election on an increasingly hostile position to
immigration. While the media became fixated with a few Nazi and racist
candidates, we should really be looking at the party as a whole and
analysing what their vote means and what is its long term significance."
Anti-racist and anti-fascist group, Hope Not Hate.
Similarly, reading the politically idiotic Gay Star News you might get the impression all that's wrong with Ukip is that some of their minor local election candidates have said some bad things about The Gays.
Saturday, 4 May 2013
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