BROWSE MY BOOKS WITH THESE LINKS 
Archive for May 16th, 2015
Browse Good Books
Saturday, May 16th, 2015UKIP In Meltdown
Saturday, May 16th, 2015UKIP achieved nearly four million votes. For a one man band that is a remarkable achievement. That our democracy is so organised as to deny the party any seats bar 1, when the SNP with one and a half million votes get 56 seats and the Liberal Democrats get 8 for two and a half million votes, shows not only how ridiculous our voting system is but how it is deliberately skewed to reach outcomes according to distribution and not to volume. In other words it can call itself all sorts of things as long as the word democracy is not included.
It is not surprising that the one man in this UKIP band, Nigel Farage, has been a touch erratic since this bitter disappointment. The party did after all get the third highest number of votes. One Seat!? Having first resigned then re-instated himself, he is now faced with a chorus of demands from political nonentities and eurosceptic cheque books to either go on holiday or go altogether. He should stand firm, because without him UKIP will not be able to stand at all.