RE: Nigel Farage - He Roast's Colleagues - Funny, Yet Sad Videos - I wish the United States had more Politicians Like This...
I find your analysis intriguing. Prior to brexit, I had never heard of Farage, but ever since, I have become infatuated with the man. The way he carries himself, the way he speaks directly without care for "political correctness" is a breath of fresh air in the ever more polluted ecosystem of politics that is bogged down by politicians who fear to truly speak their mind. That being said, the more I look into Farage, the more I am reminded that he is a politician. I am starting to get a sense that he may be disingenuous. That he may merely be another politician who found a cord that struck with a wide range of his constituents (in this case it would be national sovereignty) and ran with it. I have yet to decide whether I believe he is genuine or not. But, I'm not sure that I agree with you that being Tory is a bad thing. The majority of his rhetoric is pro-little-man. He appears (at least on the surface) to take the back of his countrymen who are being adversely affected by the European Union. It appears that Farage is fighting to take back control of his country from ever expanding federalism that's being imposed by the European Union.
He 'says' he is pro-little-man, but look at his party's policies. They are in favour of full privatisation of our national health service, ever more tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, the abolition of inheritance tax... Also, I'm not much of a tree hugger, but UKIP's manifesto pledges to pretty much scrap all these 'namby pamby green initiatives' and forge ahead with profitable fracking and giant power plants are pretty much environmental and long term economic suicide.
I could go on. Their policies are right of Tory and designed to enrich the rich, increase inequality, and enslave an ever growing working class. Just read their last election manifesto.
The EU is a wonderful thing (with flaws naturally). Tories don't like it because it limits their ability to dispense with human rights, environmental responsibility, and generally interferes with the business of handing power to corporations. UKIP is politically Tory, but deceptively packaged to appeal to the working class even while working against their interests.
But anyway, as I'm sure you could tell, I was mainly reacting in offense to the promotion of someone I greatly dislike and disagree with. Well done for keeping it civil despite my prickly tone :-)