Big Peace -“out of step” (and out of touch):
While UKIP hasn’t yet mustered up any elected members of the UK Parliament, the party this week registered as Britain’s most favoured political organisation, scoring 27 percentage points ahead of the left-wing Labour Party’s 26 and the Conservative Party’s 25 percent.
UKIP is also expected to take a huge chunk of seats at the upcoming European Parliamentary elections in May, promising more Eurosceptic Members (MEPs) who will no doubt argue for a return of sovereignty to national governments across the continent, away from the bureaucratic talons of the European Union.
I guess that the phrase “State Sovereignty” works both across the pond as well as here. In both cases, we are seeing the war going on between those that want even MORE Government (in the ill believed notion that “Govt CAN heal all problems”) and those that believe they can solve their own problem (but aren’t allow to)
Recently, The Economist referred to UKIP as Britain’s Tea Party, a nod towards the party’s libertarian leanings. Nigel Farage once again upset the UK establishment this week by calling for a repeal of the UK’s ban on handguns, initially introduced in 1996 after the mass shooting in Dunblane, Scotland.
The Independent reported Sunday that the finding of their favourability poll was a “surprise,” further proof of the fact that much like the United States, Britain’s political and media establishments are increasingly out of step with public opinion.
I’ve been on this mudball for a few decades now, and in each and everyone of them, Government has grown larger, more intrusive, and more expensive. Not just here but especially over in Europe where Europe’s elites have decided, for everyone else, that the European Union should be far more than just a “common market”. The common folks are starting to realize they are loosing their countries, and they are getting ticked. As that old movie, Network, made famous: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore”; that is being said more and more. Especially in Europe, the citizens of the socialist democracies are seeing the elites wanting to put the Administrative State into place (and in large degree, with the EU Parliament and bureaucracy, succeeding) and realize they are about to get the shaft.
UKIP, TEA Party? The same or different? Similar but not the same, but the foundational anger is similar – no longer will the serfs remain quiet.
