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UKIP done good


No EU Superstate

I’m a Conservative. Let there be no confusion.

I’m looking forward to the Conservative Party’s long overdue withdrawal from the European People’s Party (EPP) which has stymied genuine opposition to federalism for so long.

I had to sit through the news yesterday admiring the stance that the UK Independence Party took in confronting Blair. Why, I have to ask myself, was Blair being harrangued, not by the party of opposition, but by the fringe and populist, UKIP? Blair was down and, in politics, it’s not wrong to kick when he’s in that position – it’s even congratulated. So why was the kicking being done by a single-issue party?

The Conservatives did well immediately after the leadership election but, already, the media has lost interest. There’s less excitement about the Conservatives. The majority of people still believe they’ll win the next election, true, but the exciting news stories, the political swords that Tories should be grabbing with both hands and thrusting through Labour’s weakness, the spin, if you like, is not being utilised.

I received an e-mail this afternoon from UKIP, genuinely excited (as they might be) about the coup they achieved. Let’s get the Tories who are now openly eurosceptic, to step up to the mantle and shout from the rooftops in a single voice “The EU is not working; and neither is Blair!”



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This entry was posted on Friday, December 23rd, 2005 at 7:27 pm and is filed under Gavin Ayling's blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  1. #1 by James G on December 24th, 2005 - 11:27 am

    I was rather disappointed in our own side’s reaction to the rebate giveaway…It could have been a bit more vehement…

  2. #2 by Gav on December 24th, 2005 - 5:26 pm

    I like that: “a bit more vehement”!!

    And definitely!

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