UK POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT. RUNNING SCARED OF UKIP.

It looks like the Labour Party are now getting seriously worried about the emergence of UKIP as a  threat in the forthcoming by election in South Shields, and also I imagine as a serious one in next years European Elections. They have been attempting to smear the UKIP candidate in the by election, even though they are bound to win the seat, Labour having won there at every time of asking since the 1930s. So it is safe to calculate from this that they are rattled over the votes that UKIP will take from them in those European elections.

And it is little wonder. The Tories, Liberals and Labour now represent the old reactionary establishment, slow to change and completely out of touch with the British people on the single most important issue of the day; membership of the increasingly anti-democratic EU. These three parties have all had many among their number who have in the past, sometimes covertly, been keen advocates of the UK joining the Euro. This particular noise seems to have died down of course, but no admission of being wrong has been heard. 

We have even had the ridiculous Ken Clarke trotting out rubbish about anyone not agreeing with him being a racist or a xenophobe or any one of the usual cheap insults this lot come up with when the idea of a debate is too exhausting to think about.

They won't get away with this forever, and if there are any really clever politicians out there among these three parties they will seek to harness the growing tide of opinion against membership of the EU, a tide of opinion which is growing despite all the propaganda of the BBC and most of the press.