Today I wake up and find out that the nation that issues me my passport now has an elected representative from UKIP. I feel a bit dirty, I have to say. Having a representative from UKIP sitting at Westminster makes Britain a weaker and more disgusting place that it was previously.
UKIP are of course wrong about everything. If climate change denial were their only wrong policy – it would still be very wrong to ever vote for them. But they are wrong about Europe, about immigration, about inequality, about public services. They are wrong about power and responsibility. They are, meanwhile, factophobes, too cowardly to respond to the evidence that would threaten their core prejudices.
UKIP construct and then exploit a wholly spurious “liberal consensus” which only they it seems are brave enough to challenge. They present themselves as the only people brave enough to tell the truth about…
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The ramblings of a former DWP Civil Servant ... 