They meant BNP, not UKIP
I am sure the references were to BNP. UKIP is a very respectable party which drew major support from the electorate at the last round of elections.
I think that our mainstream parties have become so focussed on their own navels that they have lost the plot, that is to serve the country as a whole. Any mainstream party that can pull only less than 50% of the electorate has no mandate to say its value set is any better than anyone elses. When Blair tells protestors to leave his conference he is clearly saying that some British people are not welcome in his definition of Britain.
On the foreigner issue, one I like very much, i like to repeat the definition that can be found ina book in Waterstones the bookstore. Xenophobia: the irrational fear of anything foreign, always understandable and usually justified.
I speak for myself, not UKIP, when I say that I am an Islander, and as such I am entitled to be a xenophobe, if I so wanted to be one.
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