Ukip: It's Not a Witch-Hunt, It's Called Scrutiny

by Guest Wed May 21, 2014 6:01 pm

Ukip has spent the last twenty years outside the political tent pissing in, yet now they are stepping inside of the big top they don't seem to keen on getting a warm yellow drenching.
Unfair? Ed Miliband can't take a dump with being accused of pandering to the Unions.
Given the opportunity of entering the political arena with the big boys and girls it's naive not to expect higher level of scrutiny. As the big three know too well, from the car you drive to the school you send your children to, everything is fair game for the press.
Had Ukip taken a principled stand against what they now describe as a witch-hunt when it happened to its larger rivals, I might have more sympathy. Yet, as anyone who has gone to that fifth circle of hell that is the Daily Mail comments section will have seen, UKIP supporters wriggle in delight at such stories.
From the ground up they have thrown much muck about the perceived corruption of mainstream politics. Scrutiny is a weapon against such corruption so you would think they would have taken this with a stiff upper lip.
Is this a crazed witch-hunt when it finds actual witches on a daily basis? Be it racist comments or dodgy friends in the EU, it paints a picture of an operationally incompetent far-right party.
Nigel Farage may try to distance himself by claiming these aren't high profile members. For a party with no elected MPs these men and women, who they have selected to represent them in the forthcoming Euro and Local Government elections, must be considered as leading figures.
Having selected Roger Helmer to run in their most important bid for an elected MP yet, the Newark By-Election, you would assume that this is somebody representative of the best of UKIP, perhaps only second to its leader. With that in mind it's worth reviewing his views on homosexuality, rape and climate change.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/will-porter/ukip-racism_b_5353886.html?utm_hp_ref=uk