Fruitcake
May 3, 2013 1:45:13 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 3, 2013 1:45:13 GMT -5
Good morning to you all! I trust that all is well with you this May. 'The Guardian' leads today in praise of … fruitcake: anglocentric Ukip dislikes Arabs, Europeans and Scots. But fruitcake is life-enhancing and cosmopolitan. It is 50 years since Screaming Lord Sutch first came last in a byelection. Since then, Sutch's Monster Raving Loony party has maintained his tradition – decades of being neither funny nor successful. Yet the party's eastern region leader had a point this week when he complained about the cavalier use of the word "fruitcake" to describe members of Ukip. True, a good fruitcake needs regularly soaking in alcohol, which is not unknown among Ukip leaders either. 'The Guardian' defends thus:
As for 'The Spectator', Sydney Grew, Fraser Nelson reports that UKIP hits yet another high water mark. What few results there have been by 6.45am suggest that UKIP has scored about a quarter of the vote and gained more seats than Labour. If this were to remain the case, it would identify Nigel Farage as the main winner and suggest that his party is mutating from an EU protest party into a being broader party of the working class. Fraser Nelson concludes thus:
To govern is to choose, Sydney Grew?
" ... But to equate Ukip with fruitcakes is unfair to the latter not the former. Where do most of the fruits in fruitcake originate? The Arab world. Where did the art of mixing dried fruit into a cake begin? In Europe, starting in ancient Rome. Which part of Britain is synonymous with the making of fruitcake? Scotland, Dundee in particular. Anglocentric Ukip dislikes Arabs, Europeans and Scots. But fruitcake is life-enhancing and cosmopolitan – in short it is everything that Ukip is not."
As for 'The Spectator', Sydney Grew, Fraser Nelson reports that UKIP hits yet another high water mark. What few results there have been by 6.45am suggest that UKIP has scored about a quarter of the vote and gained more seats than Labour. If this were to remain the case, it would identify Nigel Farage as the main winner and suggest that his party is mutating from an EU protest party into a being broader party of the working class. Fraser Nelson concludes thus:
" ... So what’s next for Farage? To actually win a by-election and have an MP. James Forsyth is, as ever, the first to bring details of the cold war for Portsmouth South. And then this time next year, when local elections are held on the same day as the Euro elections, UKIP may take entire councils (like Linconshire). In 2015, they may be strong enough to change the result of the general election – and not necessarily in a good way. Stuart Wheeler tells today’s Telegraph that UKIP may have ten seats by then and have a minister in coalition. But with whom?
UKIP may well split the Tory vote and take Ed Miliband to No10. But the Labour leader should be worried – and a little ashamed – at its success yesterday. Miliband is now two years away from a general election, he should be proving his one-nation credentials and winning down south. At this stage in the last cycle, the Tories gained 12 councils and 256 councillors. It doesn’t seem, at the time of writing, the Labour will do as well."
UKIP may well split the Tory vote and take Ed Miliband to No10. But the Labour leader should be worried – and a little ashamed – at its success yesterday. Miliband is now two years away from a general election, he should be proving his one-nation credentials and winning down south. At this stage in the last cycle, the Tories gained 12 councils and 256 councillors. It doesn’t seem, at the time of writing, the Labour will do as well."
To govern is to choose, Sydney Grew?