UKIP!

[hyperD]

Because we heard the interview and heard the interviewer quoting a different UKIP candidate who said exactly that?

BBC News - UKIP message 'not getting through in London'

"cultural, educated and young" was the quote to which she answered, despite being a loathsome politician, quite well.

Not the spin proffered by the biased Independent from the OP, which was my point.

[doodab]

They don't appeal to the well off who are benefiting from the EU and don't live in areas heavily populated by low economic value migrants.

So we should leave the EU because "it only benefits the well off"? Surely that's hitting the well off for the supposed benefit of the less well off. Does the argument that what benefits the rich benefits everybody not apply here?

How come that's an acceptable idea but the very idea of trying to alter a capitalist system that benefits the well off more than the poor is criticised for "punishing the well off" regardless of the details or the benefit to the less well off?

[Mich the Tester]

So we should leave the EU because "it only benefits the well off"? Surely that's hitting the well off for the supposed benefit of the less well off. Does the argument that what benefits the rich benefits everybody not apply here?

How come that's an acceptable idea but the very idea of trying to alter a capitalist system that benefits the well off more than the poor is criticised for "punishing the well off" regardless of the details or the benefit to the less well off?

Or would it just hit those who aspire to become 'well off'?

[doodab]

Quite. There was a prospective UKIP voter wrote in to the paper moaning about immigrants the other day. He came from a rural village in Sussex - looking at the demographics there were no immigrants there.

Could it be that UKIP voters are people more likely to believe what they read in the papers i.e. all the anti-immigrant scare stories in the daily mail and express which they read disproportionately more than other people?

[sasguru]

it's time to call a spade a spade.
UKIP is the party of cretins for cretins.

All their voters will do in the general election is make Milliband PM, just as the Tories were beginning to sort out the economy.

I don't give a crap, as part of the "Metropoiltan Elite", I can work in a number of countries in the world.

Fook you thickos.

[vetran]

So how should they adapt to appeal to those people, given that they'll need to do that to get seats in parliament?

by showing how their policies can improve their life in other ways. If they serve well and with passion as councillors they may well change minds.

By patiently exposing lies & cover ups throughout the country, they are in the great position they aren't responsible for any situations in local councils and its politically wise for them to get in there and do a lot of whistle blowing.

There was a lot of mud slung against UKIP, I'm hoping most of it doesn't deserve to stick.

Remember many at the bottom financial end voters were migrants themselves who had carved out a reasonable living on just above minimum wage, they are slowly being replaced by cheaper labour.

Many were the middle class in their own countries and cannot understand the benefit culture, they would prefer they didn't have to subsidise a workless class.

[doodab]

The irony is that their poor performance at the polls in London is one thing they'd actually be quite right to blame on high levels of immigration

[DodgyAgent]

, I can work in a number of countries in the world.

As long as it is not this one

[sasguru]

Could it be that UKIP voters are people more likely to believe what they read in the papers i.e. all the anti-immigrant scare stories in the daily mail and express which they read disproportionately more than other people?

UKIP voters are thick and believe anything they're told.
There was a soundbite with Farage yesterday where he claimed half a million people had settled in the UK last year.
"We just can't go on like this " he said, striding off before someone could call him on it.
He'd be right if it wasn't just a huge whopper.

[DodgyAgent]

So we should leave the EU because "it only benefits the well off"? Surely that's hitting the well off for the supposed benefit of the less well off. Does the argument that what benefits the rich benefits everybody not apply here?

How come that's an acceptable idea but the very idea of trying to alter a capitalist system that benefits the well off more than the poor is criticised for "punishing the well off" regardless of the details or the benefit to the less well off?

The EU is cocooning the corporate and governmental rich but it is not creating wealth and jobs. It employs lots of well paid contractors to implement "compliance" and legal functions into their IT systems that ensure small and new businesses cannot enter the markets