There is a new party in Britain called the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). It wants to pull out of the European Union and cut immigration.
The UKIP says that the Conservative Party is dying. The UKIP beat the Tories (Conservatives) in some recent elections.
Naturally the UKIP is desperate to prove it isn’t racist.
But today’s newspaper means nothing to me. I see the UKIP as a part of a trend toward parties which represent racial groups in a racial world. The French anti-immigration party practically froths at the mouth at the word racist.
For the time being.
While everybody is concentrating on today’s paper, I have been through some 18,000 days since I started in politics, so whatever is the thing today doesn’t impress me a whole lot.
Every time I tell about a trend, somebody sends me a newspaper clipping to show me what the latest trends are. For 18,000 days I have looked at the latest trends.
They have been wrong 18,000 times.
#1 by Don on 10/02/2004 - 6:32 pm
I was once taken to task by a minister for saying something heretical by the standards of the New Religion.
Rather than becoming confrontational with this pure and holy and impeccable Man of God, I just asked him a single question: “Why do you hate the truth so much?”
He did not even protest or deny this. I have to give him credit for that.