My previous post talked about the rise of the right-wing UKIP in recent polls and elections in the UK. Part of this phenomena, which is predicated upon the blaming of immigrants and immigration for many social woes, is as a result of the recent economic downturn.
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The political landscape in the UK is changing, that much is pretty obvious to any onlooker. The rise of UKIP…
“I’m not a racist, I’ve got coloured neighbors and they’re fantastic neighbors” – An interviewed UKIP voter on the BBC.
Local elections have just taken place in the UK for a proportion of local councils where the electorate can decide which councillors will represent their interests in local wards by winning seats on their local council. UKIP (the UK Independence Party), essentially a break-away faction of the Conservative Party, the right wing mainstream party of the UK, originally set up to take the UK out of membership of the EU, made massive gains.
http://youtu.be/mAeS0bCAmjE What a fantastic commentary here. Excellent. More of that, thanks. One point which I have made before is that…
I can’t believe it. My country (UK) has a coalition government between a right-wing party, the Conservatives, and a left-wing…