There have been one or two calls to brand Ukip a racist party, and some media debate about whether it is. But what’s become clear during the last fortnight is that there is a strong, cross-party consensus both that Ukip isn’t a ‘racist party’ – and that it must get better at keeping out individuals that hold racist views.
On debates such as the BBC’s Question Time, you can clearly see that this consensus has extended across the front and backbenches of the different parties. Just one or two MPs take a different view. Labour left-winger Diane Abbott told the BBC that she did not regard Ukip as racist but saw it as having US ‘tea party’ tendencies.
There are good reasons why the general public, the media and his political rivals treat Nigel Farage differently to Nick Griffin. Ukip does not have extremist roots. It was founded to get Britain out of Europe, a legitimate cause. But an anti-EU party which campaigns to end EU free movement will attract both legitimate voices for that cause, and those who have more virulent and toxic motives.
Yes, there are far more racist's in all the other party's but UKIP are
being targeted because all the other party's are running scared at
the popular rise of UKIP & their last hope of shooting us down is to
brand us as racist, but their last desperate plan is failing & it is
highly amusing to UKIP supporters to watch them all try to deny
the obvious truth & fact that the EU is a complete disaster.
COME ON FLUFFY, YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE.