Cavey wrote:
...Well, cometh the hour and all that, home straight now.
I don't know whether it is wishful thinking/hubris on my part, but I've always said that I just can't see the British people voting Brexit, and I stand by that. Nationalism has (generally) never found as fertile ground here like it has in mainland Europe; the "British sense of fair play" isn't entirely a product of fiction, and parties ranging from the National Front, EDL, BNP and UKIP haven't won a single parliamentary seat between them. When push comes to shove (SNP aside), and whatever the polls suggest, we always pull back from the brink. Unity and collaboration trumps spiteful isolation and myopic, delusions of grandeur induced selfishness.
Until quite recently, I thought Farage was a "lovable rogue" type character; okay, I didn't agree with his views (not least because of my Eastern European parentage, but also because I believe in unity and hope, not division and "othering"), but heck, I thought - I can share a pint and a smoke with the man, he seems jovial and "real" enough. Slowly, though, and for me at least, the mask has been slipping, the wolf in sheep's clothing has been ever more evident. The final straw? That poster Cras posted the other day, and the unbelievably close facsimile to Nazi material of the '30s... a dark warning from History indeed.
Come on UK, we're better than this. Let's show that grasping mop-haired twat and Kermit the dustbin of history.
I have to admit, losing the will to live a few of my friends who keep saying UKIP is not racist, as they have non-white party supporters......