UKIP defaced poster by Wales News Service

Responses to those horrible UKIP posters

[UKIP defaced poster by Wales News Service]

Apart from their colour-blind use of any colour that other parties have deemed just too vomit-inducing, the UKIP campaign is classic yellow-(and purple) press, dogwhistling about immigration to pally up the racist vote. So nice to see these reactions to these awful posters. A quick Google shows you these posters don’t stay that way for long…so it seems quite a few other people feel these are offensive too. Sad that Nigel Mirage decided not to go walkabout in Swansea today and meet this poster!

Funny thing is when the press counter their crap with some of the nastiness of their donors, members and candidates, Nigel always bleats that no-one is covering his particular phobia of immigrants invading the country. Maybe it’s because it’s not happening? Complete news misnomer, like asking people to talk about how the Satanists are abusing children or Chemtrails are poisoning us, things that can be easily disproved by, you know, facts. They’re targeting working class voters, it’ll be an amazing thing if they get people to actually vote against their own interests through fear. But it worked for Maggie, I guess. :-/ But like the SNP will fracture like the SDP if independence happens, this protest vote will go the way of other similar parties, like Rainbow Alliance or Monster Raving Loony Party and the like.

UKIP defaced poster image by Paul Grover
[image by Paul Grover]

UKIP bricks

Oh and send them a brick for their nice wall, won’t you?

Comments

2 responses to “Responses to those horrible UKIP posters”

  1. douglas ponton avatar
    douglas ponton

    Isn’t it fair to say that these posters, while some may find them anti-aesthetic, work because they tap into a rich vein of anti-foreign sentiment in Britain? When I say ‘work’, I mean, look at UKIP’s recent electoral successes. you don’t like them but I think their success is due to the fact that, unlike the major parties, they represent a real constituency of Britons disaffected with the EU experience. They manage to be populist; whether they can avoid turning into fascists when they get power is the question…

    1. Tim B avatar

      I don’t doubt that UKIP’s success comes from a real place, a protest vote, and any party that just dismisses that is going to be in trouble. The problem with engaging with their immigration issues is validating a racist and fascist ideology. It is better to ridicule them on other things, although I do think that politicians need to work on their image, seem to be doing the right thing, and face up to what is causing this.

      It’s not just anti-foreign sentiment per se, I think it’s a little more complex. The relation to the EU which successive governments have tried to make out is a bad one, which is paradoxical since although there have been polls where people say they hate people coming here, but are happy going to work/live in Spain (err, you can’t pick and choose!) and English and Welsh refuse EU money for projects, which would bolster EU’s good image (they do in Scotland, hence why I think Scots are more EU-friendly). The root cause I think is one of insecurity, lack of jobs, poverty, lack of education and such like. If people were happier and better off, then they’d not need any ‘forrinerz’ to blame. And Murdoch press and Daily Mail have been stirring such hatred, because it is easier to blame others rather than face up to sorting it out yourself – or get off your arse and do something.

      And turn into facists? Well, juries out on that one, but some of them already seem to be pretty far down that line. They have racists and homophobes in the party, who seem happy to spout off about ‘bongo bongo land’ – so I think people should mock them, since they are intentionally mining xenophobia, recession issues, racism and homophobia for electoral gain.

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