I am ex Labour. Being a young man in Liverpool in the early 80s does not endear Thatcher to me (95% unemployment in Croxteth anyone?), having 2 cousins in St. Helens Colliery beaten up by her politicised police force and signing the Single European Act just added to her roll of infamy.
A reasonable proportion of UKIP members are indeed Thatcherites. But we have many other strands of political background.
The one thing we ALL have in common is that we recognise the EU is an anti-democratic megastate which seeks to crush self determination both for nations and individuals. We all see that as the greatest threat, not just to the freedom of our nation but to the freedom of all of our european neighbours.
Being Anti-EU is not being anti-European. In some ways it is quite the opposite. We appreciate that Greeks, Poles, Germans or any of the other nations have a right to be who they are and we WANT dialogue and free trade with them. We just do not want all of our peoples crushed into a giant homogenous whole of european serfs ruled by a giant corrupt bureaucracy with an insatiable, uncontrollable desire for power over our every action.
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