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Ukip - Trying To Defend The Indefensible
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In the anodyne, magnolia-hued, bland, broad consensus of modern British politics being different is important.
Take, for example, the SDP in the early Eighties - way ahead of others in the polls. Their popularity, albeit short-lived, was in many ways not a rebellion against Labour policy or even the, then, highly unpopular Tory government. It was an attraction to something new, to something that offered 'hope' and 'change'. However misguided its proponents may have been, or not been, the dull (to most) business of politicking was briefly enlivened.
The same may now be true. We should not be surprised when the new seems more attractive than the old. Labour, after all, started winning elections when it re-branded itself as 'new'.
Take, for example, the SDP in the early Eighties - way ahead of others in the polls. Their popularity, albeit short-lived, was in many ways not a rebellion against Labour policy or even the, then, highly unpopular Tory government. It was an attraction to something new, to something that offered 'hope' and 'change'. However misguided its proponents may have been, or not been, the dull (to most) business of politicking was briefly enlivened.
The same may now be true. We should not be surprised when the new seems more attractive than the old. Labour, after all, started winning elections when it re-branded itself as 'new'.
In some respects Mr Henwood has a valid point:
"I think if black people come to this country and don't like mixing with white people why are they here?”
It has always intrigued me that people should come to a country that so blatantly offends or upsets them in various ways. It’s not as if the facilities, views and attitudes in this country are a well kept secret and in any case large numbers of people coming here already have friends and/or family here who can tell them just what it’s like. But, as they say, there’s now’t so queer as folk.
Of course where his argument falls down a tad is that Lenny Henry did not “come here” as he was born in Dudley.
As for his remarks comparing Islam to the Third Reich, some might suggest that does the Third Reich a grave injustice.
"I think if black people come to this country and don't like mixing with white people why are they here?”
It has always intrigued me that people should come to a country that so blatantly offends or upsets them in various ways. It’s not as if the facilities, views and attitudes in this country are a well kept secret and in any case large numbers of people coming here already have friends and/or family here who can tell them just what it’s like. But, as they say, there’s now’t so queer as folk.
Of course where his argument falls down a tad is that Lenny Henry did not “come here” as he was born in Dudley.
As for his remarks comparing Islam to the Third Reich, some might suggest that does the Third Reich a grave injustice.
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