It's difficult to remember a time when people were more
fed up than they are at present but the discontents appear different depending
on whether you're talking about the North or the South. UKIP benefits from both
but in different ways which make it Britain's first two faced party -as
distinct from the Lib-Dems who had 18
In the North the problem is the collapse of old
industries and the dismantling of the comfortable world of full employment,
steady growth, rising wages, and steady betterment through public spending.which
makes the discontent more of an older working class phenomenon
In the south it's the squeezed middle who're oppressed by rising house prices
forcing them out of London to face ever rising commuter costs . They feel
themselves oppressed by big organisations like banks and multinationals
cheating their tax obligations and serving their own purposes .They're worried
that their country isn't their's any longer and that their comfortable middle
class existence is threatened
UKIP exploits both sets of discontents but that means
that it's more of a threat to Labour in the North and to the Tories in the
South though it's confused cacophony of policies can satisfy neither. The
choice facing the country is one between austerity and stimulus, Hayek versus
Keynes but UKIP offers only a mixture of bar room populism, barrack room
negativism and a barrage of Farage. God bless 'Im.
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