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Er, this story surely amounts to a whole lot of nothing:
Nigel Farage, the new leader of the UK Independence Party, has claimed he was offered a safe Conservative seat ahead of last year's general election.
I'd bet that the most that happened is this: a member of a safe seat's Conservative Association said to Nigel Farage that the chap (or maybe chapess) would really like him to put his hat in the ring for the nomination. And Mr Farage didn't.
So come off it, Nige. On that basis, I can claim to have been offered a senior position on the Conservative front bench. A Shadow Cabinet member once said to me that the party really needed people like me and I would make a good Education Secretary.
The fact that I was, at the time, a paid up member of the Labour Party, and was engaged in an hour long argument with him about whether I was even a Conservative (he said I was, I said I wasn't), only adds to the comparison with Mr Farage's stupid claim.
MessageSpace
I respectfully suggest that you leave him alone.
I have voted Tory for the last 25 years, but will certainly be be putting my mark beside the UKIP candidiate at the next election. The reason ? As a voter, I feel helpless, powerless, ignored, unrepresented, forgotten.
All 3 major parties back the EU with more loss of sovereignty to Brussels, same sex marriages, high tax/public spending, and an anti-US / anti-Israeli pro-Islamic stance. It may be a wasted vote - it may not - but at least Mr Farage's UKIP will deal with the root-cause problem of this country ie our inability to make our own policy, and restore real democracy (ie politicians we vote for making British policy)
Great post Neil. I left the Conservatives and stood for UKIP in Finchley last year. I would like to think my few hundred votes last year aided the incumbent, Rudi Vis, to fend off the challenge from the uncharismatic Andrew Mennear.