Posted on 11/21/2014 1:58:37 AM PST by Nextrush
The United Kingdom Independence Party won the special election yesterday for the parliamentary seat of Rochester and Strood with the media saying that "immigration" was the top issue.
The UK has been flooded with Eastern European workers allowed to emigrate there by the rules of the European Union. This has cheapened the labor market hurting working people and small business.
UKIP has made Britain's exit from the EU the centerpiece of its platform.
Its a clear distinction from the UK's version of the Republican Party.
The ruling Conservatives of Prime Minister David Cameron claim they are trying to cut a better deal with the EU on immigration and fighting for a better deal with the EU in general and will even allow a referendum on EU membership IF they are re-elected.
Voters aren't buying that pitch with two-thirds of Conservative voters in the special election voting for UKIP joined by 40 percent of Labour Party voters who gave candidate Mark Reckless a comfortable margin of nearly eight percent.
What the Conservatives did to make the vote that close was to paint UKIP as a loony way out party to scare supporters of the UK's traditional third party, the Liberal Democrats, into fearfully voting for the Tories.
Heck, that's the same game Republicans play with grassroots conservatives in this country. They paint the Dems as so way out you have to support the GOP, even though you may not like them.
There are 650 seats in the House of Commons and the Rochester and Strood seat wss rated 271st most likely to support UKIP. With UKIP's nearly eight percent margin in a seat considered to be less friendly to them, it seems likely that UKIP will do very well indeed in the General Election set for May 7, 2015.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said recently that his party will concentrate on holding the balance of power between Labour and the Conservatives in the election.
UKIP has reminded its supporters that the two big parties are both elitist and out of touch with the people and their concerns while Conservative Party supporters claim that voting for UKIP means that Labour Party leader "Red Ed" Miliband will win the election.
If UKIP indeed holds the balance of power next year with neither big party able to govern, the rich pro-EU elites that want all the cheap labor in the UK will no doubt marry them together to form a government.
This will prove conclusively to the British electorate that the two big parties are indeed a Uniparty (one party cartel) and set the stage for UKIP's further advance in the UK's political system.
I wonder when the American electorate will wake up to the fact that such a system exists here too and act accordingly like Britons are.
I have no confidence in Obama and little in MMcC.
American variation on Loss of Supply:
Maximize deductions in order to minimize withholding. Set aside the funds for next April.
Gubmint cash flow drops and The Beast goes on a diet.
Very individual and very American.
If you underpay due to loading up on deductions, the IRS will send a “lock letter” to your employer, requiring them to assign you to “single deduction, filing single”. Then you have to appeal it.
What people in the US do not understand, unless they own a business, is that taxes are due quarterly, not annually. “Tax Day” is a fiction perpetuated by employer withholding.
Perhaps there are two Brits still alive with common sense.
The UKIP is going to be a force in the UK. I would love to see the TP tell the GOPe that we want seats in the leadership (including the committee that writes tax and budget rules, immigration and defense.)
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