From the Evening Standard (4 Mar 2013, page 51):
I very much doubt the next election will be fought on local issues, as Matthew D"Ancona suggests. The key concerns will be the economy, the UK's constitutional make-up after the Scottish referendum and Britain's relationship with the EU. Since there will be hardly any difference between the main parties on any of these, the present sense of frustration will endure.
Ukip, which I founded, has sadly become a new version of the BNP with a principal focus on immigration and Islam, as shown by its flagship 2010 policy to ban the burka and Nigel Farage's claim on Question Time that London's housing shortage was due to council properties being given to migrants the day after they stepped off the plane.
The party's "economic policy" would bankrupt the country. All in all, the next election promises to be a rather unedifying affair.
Dr Alan Sked, LSE.
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5 comments:
Thanks for that. I was unaware of Dr Sked. His wiki entry is illuminating, but depressing...
L, yes, I've just looked him up and it is indeed depressing.
Skedders! I attended some of his lectures while at LSE. Top man.
By the way, the OpenID provider I was using died, so this is me now.
R-A, I preferred you without the hyphen, to be honest.
So did I Mark, it's gone now.
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