The seeds of recent success for the new Brexit Party were sown, not merely before it was founded, but before "Brexit" even entered the heads of the electorate as a possibility -which they grasped eagerly because "business as usual" was by then deeply unsatisfactory to many.
During John Major's tenure as Conservative Prime Minister, astute observers began to write "this is a Conservative government that won't conserve ANYTHING!" Many Tory voters were disquieted, especially by the strident insistence (which has never since died away) that mass development of the countryside was not only necessary but highly desirable and that it was somehow perverse and even wicked to object to even the most heavy-handed application of bulldozers to things which symbolise everything that most Tory voters hold dear. Many of them continued to not only vote Tory, but even to raise money and campaign for the Tories, because they couldn't understand why or how the Party they had been bought up to believe in, had become intent on destroying so many things which they loved. Others voted for Tony Blair, under the delusion that a "first couple" whose female half was reputed to "hate grass" (as well as cats) was going to be better.
By the time Tony Blair had run his course, the Cameron government was denouncing loyal Tory voters, fundraisers and canvassers as "NIMBYs" and "Turnip Taliban." This wasn't friendly banter, it was an expression of complete contempt, for the Tory Party's core supporters and everything they loved. Sooner or later, insufferable arrogance, contempt and disdain got through even to people whose families had been loyal Conservatives for generations. Then, Mr Cameron launched, not only a referendum on something that mattered more than anything else to himself and all those like him, but a grossly excessive and totally-one-sided blitz of propaganda and bullying making it clear what result he wanted. Loyal Tories thought about it very carefully and voted to do to Cameron what he had done and was proposing to do to the countryside and social institutions that they loved.
Meanwhile, Tony Blair had turned a Labour Party of peacelovers (not the same connotation as "pacifists") into the party of war. Not just one war, but several. He had also turned the Labour Party of the working man into a party which despised everything the working man held dear and labelled most of it as "bigotry" to be stamped out of its supporters by a largely-middle class leadership cadre. Working class Labour supporters reacted, initially, with the same sort of bewildered denial and desperate hope that all this would pass, as their Tory counterparts had done. Then, especially when several Labour councils were found to have given a free pass to child-rapists in Labour's working class heartlands as part of the crusade against bigotry, they became no less angry than the Tory supporters. Possibly just a tad more angry if anything.
Theresa May promised to deliver the Brexit that disaffected Tory and Labour supporters had voted for, but failed to even try to negotiate a free trade deal that might have mollified them and allowed Brexit to happen -and the Conservative Party's Central Office and most of its MPs did not slacken in their opposition to Brexit and shamelessly conspired with the opposition parties to thwart the democratic mandate.
And that's not all! Under Jeremy Corbyn, lifelong Labour Party members whose grandfathers had fought Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in the streets to keep fascist thugs out of Jewish neighbourhoods, started to hear, in modernised slang, Mosley's hatred being spouted at Labour Party meetings. Chants of "Zio!" whenever someone believed to be Jewish tried to speak, or even entered the meeting room. Complaints of anti-semitism and outright harassment ignored or dealt with in a derisory manner. Labour became the stridently anti-racist party that hates Jews.
Then came Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party. The Conservative Party leaders who want to build the Oxford-Cambridge Arc (a sort of racially-integrated Soweto for the workers who won't be able to live in London but will have to travel daily to work there) and the HS2 railway upon England's green and pleasant land, and the middle-class Labour Party leaders who play at being Lenin or Stalin and who have alienated any working class person who actually works, immediately made it clear that they regarded Nigel Farage as their worst nightmare. And all the people they had systematically alienated between them, voted for him at the first chance they got .
If Mr Farage wishes to keep their support, however, he must recognise that the Lisbon and Maastricht treaties are not the only totems of the political elite that the people are fed up with: they do not want the hugely expensive and destructive HS2 and the Oxford-Cambridge Arc (and its Expressway) either. They don't want to see hard working Jews hounded, or herded, out of the country. They do not want to see cemeteries vandalised. They do not want drugs pushers and paedophiles to be given a free run at their children. They want Brexit, yes, but only as step one in getting their country back from the elite who have stolen it from them. Mr Farage needs to be here for the long-haul, not just till Halloween or even Christmas.
During John Major's tenure as Conservative Prime Minister, astute observers began to write "this is a Conservative government that won't conserve ANYTHING!" Many Tory voters were disquieted, especially by the strident insistence (which has never since died away) that mass development of the countryside was not only necessary but highly desirable and that it was somehow perverse and even wicked to object to even the most heavy-handed application of bulldozers to things which symbolise everything that most Tory voters hold dear. Many of them continued to not only vote Tory, but even to raise money and campaign for the Tories, because they couldn't understand why or how the Party they had been bought up to believe in, had become intent on destroying so many things which they loved. Others voted for Tony Blair, under the delusion that a "first couple" whose female half was reputed to "hate grass" (as well as cats) was going to be better.
By the time Tony Blair had run his course, the Cameron government was denouncing loyal Tory voters, fundraisers and canvassers as "NIMBYs" and "Turnip Taliban." This wasn't friendly banter, it was an expression of complete contempt, for the Tory Party's core supporters and everything they loved. Sooner or later, insufferable arrogance, contempt and disdain got through even to people whose families had been loyal Conservatives for generations. Then, Mr Cameron launched, not only a referendum on something that mattered more than anything else to himself and all those like him, but a grossly excessive and totally-one-sided blitz of propaganda and bullying making it clear what result he wanted. Loyal Tories thought about it very carefully and voted to do to Cameron what he had done and was proposing to do to the countryside and social institutions that they loved.
Meanwhile, Tony Blair had turned a Labour Party of peacelovers (not the same connotation as "pacifists") into the party of war. Not just one war, but several. He had also turned the Labour Party of the working man into a party which despised everything the working man held dear and labelled most of it as "bigotry" to be stamped out of its supporters by a largely-middle class leadership cadre. Working class Labour supporters reacted, initially, with the same sort of bewildered denial and desperate hope that all this would pass, as their Tory counterparts had done. Then, especially when several Labour councils were found to have given a free pass to child-rapists in Labour's working class heartlands as part of the crusade against bigotry, they became no less angry than the Tory supporters. Possibly just a tad more angry if anything.
Theresa May promised to deliver the Brexit that disaffected Tory and Labour supporters had voted for, but failed to even try to negotiate a free trade deal that might have mollified them and allowed Brexit to happen -and the Conservative Party's Central Office and most of its MPs did not slacken in their opposition to Brexit and shamelessly conspired with the opposition parties to thwart the democratic mandate.
And that's not all! Under Jeremy Corbyn, lifelong Labour Party members whose grandfathers had fought Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts in the streets to keep fascist thugs out of Jewish neighbourhoods, started to hear, in modernised slang, Mosley's hatred being spouted at Labour Party meetings. Chants of "Zio!" whenever someone believed to be Jewish tried to speak, or even entered the meeting room. Complaints of anti-semitism and outright harassment ignored or dealt with in a derisory manner. Labour became the stridently anti-racist party that hates Jews.
Then came Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party. The Conservative Party leaders who want to build the Oxford-Cambridge Arc (a sort of racially-integrated Soweto for the workers who won't be able to live in London but will have to travel daily to work there) and the HS2 railway upon England's green and pleasant land, and the middle-class Labour Party leaders who play at being Lenin or Stalin and who have alienated any working class person who actually works, immediately made it clear that they regarded Nigel Farage as their worst nightmare. And all the people they had systematically alienated between them, voted for him at the first chance they got .
If Mr Farage wishes to keep their support, however, he must recognise that the Lisbon and Maastricht treaties are not the only totems of the political elite that the people are fed up with: they do not want the hugely expensive and destructive HS2 and the Oxford-Cambridge Arc (and its Expressway) either. They don't want to see hard working Jews hounded, or herded, out of the country. They do not want to see cemeteries vandalised. They do not want drugs pushers and paedophiles to be given a free run at their children. They want Brexit, yes, but only as step one in getting their country back from the elite who have stolen it from them. Mr Farage needs to be here for the long-haul, not just till Halloween or even Christmas.
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