Following the successful referendum campaign and the majority support of the British electorate for Brexit, UKIP — the United Kingdom Independence Party — have been thrown into a state of disarray.
Nigel Farage has quite rightly in my view been awarded the lion’s share of credit for masterminding the campaign to induce the Tories to hold an ‘in-out’ referendum on UK membership of the European Union, and it seems that flushed with his own success, Nigel Farage has chosen to take a premature step back from the political front line, vacating the leadership of his party.
Since then we have witnessed a catalogue of events that would seem to have been the work of a satirical comedy genius, as first we had the furore surrounding front runner and heir apparent, Steven Woolfe, submitting his online leadership application too late to qualify as a candidate; then we had the furore surrounding Suzanne Evans’ disqualification due to her dubious suspension from the party; followed by Diane James triumphal victory in the eventual leadership election, negated eighteen days later when she decided that she didn’t want the job of leader after all. We have then been treated to Steven Woolfe’s alleged punch-up with UKIP MEP Mike Hookem, Steven Woolfe’s subsequent collapse and miraculous recovery; his resignation from the party and Raheem Kassam’s nomination for the leadership — first ‘on’, with the support of Aaron Banks and the party hierarchy — and now ‘off’ for reasons that don’t appear to make sense. As they say, you could not make it up!
All of this must be incredibly puzzling for members of the public who can see that while they have in their millions voted for Brexit, the Conservatives are still a long way from delivering it, and while Nigel Farage claims to have achieved his lifetime’s ambition, we are only on the ‘final furlong’ and have some way to go to reach the ‘finishing post’. There is consternation that Nigel Farage does not want to retain the leadership until the job is done, and this is a mystery for those who lack the insights that Mark Collett has shared with us in his recent podcast addressing this issue. Mark’s analysis of UKIP’s achievements and the predicament facing that party is excellent:
Assuming the leadership of UKIP at this difficult time would appear to be a ‘poisoned chalice’, and only those who closely enough approach the chaotic epicentre of the party realise this. Nigel Farage, Diane James, Steven Woolfe and Raheem Kassam may not be the only one’s to make this realisation and this storey may yet provide us with more tragi-comedy before it runs its course. It would appear to be a poisoned chalice, because whoever takes the leadership of the party is almost certainly destined to preside over it’s demise and be remembered for that.
What we must do now is to support the pro-Brexit elements within our Westminster Parliament and support the tottering edifice of UKIP until Theresa May’s government passes the much muted ‘Great Reform Bill’ and triggers Article 50, and beyond that, we must continue to build our revolutionary nationalist movement with an infrastructure capable of eventually propelling us to power.
By Max Musson – With Podcast by Mark Collett © 2016
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Julie Lake
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Excellent Observations Max. As i said Saturday, i feel a breakaway party will emerge very soon.
Shaun
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Yes, that could be the answer. UKIP are a not baddish party to vote for, but they’re not a nationalist party like the ONCE-MIGHTY NF, or Golden Dawn in Greece.
I hope they break up and that leaves a space for a genuine nationalist party to emerge.
Good riddance to UKIP, but an obvious great amount of respect for Farage and the activists within the party that made Brexit possible.
britishactivism
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I think the farce of all this just shows, once again, that political parties and the “leader” syndrome that is required for it can be unstable and easily pushed off a cliff. UKIP have done well to deliver what they have. Yet, their very name indicated their purpose – and now that purpose has been, albeit theoretically, fulfilled.
So what else do they stand for? What is their world view? How would they be different from establishment Conservatism? From the outside, there does not seem to be much to them other than the European Union issue and being a vague alternative to the other two or three parties.
Unlike true nationalist parties, I just don’t see them having an ideology or vision of this country or the world, something which I think is needed to move forward towards a specific set of goals. They can therefore bend and twist in the wind, floating off into wherever the short-term times, and media, direct them. They seem to me to be in permanent lock-step 20 years behind the Conservative party, which is of course a disaster and no salvation at all.
Just like Nick Griffin became the British National Party and the British National Party became Nick Griffin, UKIP and Nigel Farage have had the same link. I think that when any such “leadership” status comes to an end, so does the party. I just can’t see UKIP ever recovering from the loss of Nigel Farage as leader, or being able to convince the masses that they are more than about Europe and the European Union. Certainly not in enough numbers to make a big enough noise in the houses of parliament, particularly with the voting system we have.
I think nationalist parties in this country are not viable at this stage. There are many quasi-nationalist parties in Europe at the moment, and I think Britain lacks one of those. We do not really have an AfD, or True Finns, Swedish Democrats, PVV, Fidesz, PiS (Law and Justice), despite people tending to put UKIP in the same kinds of bracket.
(I don’t think they ever really were, except for a brief time where they flirted with Geert Wilders and such. This was under the leadership of Lord Malcolm Pearson, which most people have forgotten about and who the UKIP backers didn’t really rally behind because he was getting too controversial about Islamification).
Until the British public are ready to bite the hands off even these kinds of “nationalism-lite” ‘right wing’ parties, I cannot see the day coming where they will suddenly jump on board a truly nationalist party in enough numbers to bring about significant change.
There was an article in the Guardian the other week, where the liberal journalist was getting all depressed that the Polish Law and Justice party (which now dominates in Poland) has been swept into office and that, apparently, there are no leftist parties even on the radar, never mind with their hands on the tillers. It bemoaned how the government was undoing a lot of liberalism in the institutions, and how they were using both nationalism and socialism together to become so popular.
Obviously I am biased, but it would be interesting to see such a party emerge here – either a renewed UKIP, or something from the fallout and destruction of it – and to see how it would go down with the masses of disgruntled people in this country, particularly those who we all see commenting in the likes of the Daily Mail and Daily Express – people who are not nationalists or ‘racial’, but who have nobody they feel they can vote for on the kinds of issues these European parties stand for.
If UKIP cannot take such a turn, and instead decides to go “Centrist” with Suzanne Evans and various clones of her, then I think they will no longer have a purpose. They would not even be shifting the “overton window”. They would just become another one that is framing it. Yet, as all Western Springers know, relying on parties to save our bacon is not particularly wise.