For a party which claims that it wishes to exit, when it has for a considerable time believed it was a pressure group to force the Tories to do the "right thing" and repeatedly wanted the Tories to have a referendum, as endorsed by Nigel Farage, that they cannot even acknowledge Paterson's arguments speaks absolute volumes - absent from UKIP's website as it is.
No wonder then without an exit plan and no party line to take Paterson's intervention has meant as a result that Douglas Carswell on the Daily Politics floundered badly.
In this context the Private Eye cover above (click to enlarge) hits the bullseye. Without a coherent exit policy and pressure within the party supporting the "Ollivander" fantasy which says that, despite most rules being made elsewhere means we can just simply leave overnight with the "Life on Mars" option without consequences, demonstrates yet again comprehensively that it's increasingly a case of "vote UKIP, vote EU.
I have just read Mr Paterson's outstanding speech and am much impressed. I really do hope that some influential people are listening. Mr Cameron is increasingly looking like a 20th century man in a 21st century environment.
ReplyDeleteSorry I am anonymous - Mike Stallard.
"Mr Cameron is increasingly looking like a 20th century man in a 21st century environment."
DeleteYes...the perfect embodiment of the EU as well
UKIPs silence is telling. More evidence that Farage is on a personal vendetta against Cameron that anything else
ReplyDeleteAgreed, I've long come to the conclusion that Farage's primary objective now is to try to destroy the Tories rather than get us out of the EU.
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