Will Britain, Like the US, Swing To The Right?

A regular commenter at MMA, ‘Cherries’ recently pointed out that, given the impossibility of predicting the outcome of Britain’s ever nearing general election, one possible outcome would be a Conservative government propped up by UKIP.

This, of course, would be dependent on firstly, the Conservatives gaining more votes than Labour which, at the moment, seems likely. What is unlikely, even with a Conservative ‘victory’, is that they would actually have enough seats in Parliament to actually govern independently.

If, and it’s still a big ‘if’, UKIP actually do as well as some are predicting and, in so doing, they don’t terminally damage the Conservatives allowing Labour in ‘by the back door’ one of many possible permutations would be that the Conservatives might need UKIP support to govern with a majority.

Now. One would assume that if this scenario came to pass we would –

A) Get a genuine in / out referendum on the EU which would be excellent news for our democracy regardless of the outcome as we deserve such a referendum.

B) Get to work on controlling our borders and preventing immigration that would be detrimental to us. In other words, only immigrants who would benefit the country would be allowed in as often as not.

Both these things would come under the heading of ‘very good’ for all sane people.

What else would happen with a Conservative / UKIP government?

Well, for one thing, Britain would have the most ‘right wing’ government in memory and, I suspect, ever.

Personally, I’m so fed up with ‘multi-everything’ and ‘mass immigration’ and ‘political correctness’ that my knee jerk reaction is ‘GREAT!!! WHOOPEE!!’

Somewhere in the depths of what passes for my mind there seems, inexplicably, to be a slight stirring of doubt. A tiny molecule of a ‘what if it all goes horribly wrong’ kind of thought.

You see, despite Cherries and others insisting I am the spawn of Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Attila the Hun and Margaret Thatcher (I have no idea which one is my father) my politics, in general, are pretty moderate and, I always thought, somewhat ‘central’.

I wholeheartedly agree that mass immigration has been disastrous for Britain whilst wholeheartedly agreeing that some immigration has been excellent for Britain. I feel far more comfortable on ‘the middle ground’. Extremism of any kind appals me. There, I think, is ‘the rub.

For decades we have suffered the extremes of Britain’s ‘left’ trying to ‘rub the noses’ of Britain’s ‘right’ in it – whatever ‘it’ is – with their endeavours at creating a multi-culturalism, multi-faith, multi-ethnic and multi-everything nirvana.

Robinson’s had to remove their ‘Gollies’ off their jam and marmalade jars. The children’s nursery rhyme ‘Baa-baa black sheep’ was frowned upon. Employers are chastised and even fined if they don’t employ enough people from ‘ethnic backgrounds’ – apparently just employing ‘the best person for the job’ isn’t acceptable any more.

‘Positive discrimination’ was long a mantra of Britain’s left seemingly oblivious to the startlingly obvious fact that if you ‘positively discriminate’ in favour of some then, clearly, you ‘negatively discriminate’ against others.

I could go on but I heard you at the back saying ‘Oh please don’t Norman!’ so I won’t. There are literally hundreds of examples of Britain’s ‘left’ making a right ‘pigs ear’ out of pretty much anything they got involved with.

Only today, the BBC (who aren’t remotely biased to the left of course) have announced that their ‘Radio 2’ station is ‘too white’. I beg your pardon? They want a radio station in colour? That I’d like to see 😉

Apparently too many listeners to Radio 2 are white. Well, pardon us for being alive and breathing and prefering good old rock music to ethnic music or ‘young peoples music’ as the BBC seem to refer to anything more than ten minutes old. I apologise on the behalf of all us whities everywhere for having the audacity to listen to Radio 2 from time to time so we can listen to David Bowie and Queen and Green Day rather than Ravi Sharma singing Bollywood film classics.

There is a real danger here peeps.

So many of us are so fed up to the back teeth with Britain’s ‘left’ (which, I insist, has remarkably little in common with America’s albeit certainly some things in common) that there has been an ever so slow swing to the right.

It has been ever so slow as we are loathe to swing too far in any direction and, prior to UKIP, there hasn’t been any political party on the ‘right’ that we would have dared go near before.

UKIP have done a damn good job of ‘selling themselves’ to an increasing number of us – Farage deserves credit for that – but ever so gently, like a very slow burning ember somewhere almost intangible in the deepest darkest depths of what passes for my mind am I starting to wonder?

What will happen if Britain wakes up after the general election with the most right wing government in our history?

The early days would almost assuredly be quite magnificent for so many of us but what follows? Would capitalism run out of control and health insurance a la America follow? Would the wealthy have almost total control and us poor slobs be beaten ever further down life’s slippery slope?

It’s a worry in’t it?

What ever happened to pragmatism in politics. You know, this is a good idea (left), that’s a good idea (right) so let’s do it! Who cares if those who wish to call something ‘left’ or ‘right’ do so? If it’s a good thing then ‘cherry pick’ and lo and behold, you are a ‘middle ground’ political party. You do what is right regardless of whether the ‘left’ or ‘right’ hate it.

You protect the natural environment at all times. You give free care to the elderly in what ever way they need. You give a genuine and honest education to all children. You protect children at all costs. You protect animals at all costs. You close your borders to mass immigration and protect British values at all costs. You insist that immigrants swear loyalty to Britain and British values. You take care of our armed service personnel physically or psychologically injured in perpetuity for free . You decline to give any financial aid to any where outside Britain until everyone within Britain is living a decent and financially secure life. You make the police walk their beat on foot to get to know their communities and people.

You are a government of the people for the people.

You do what is right for the people of Britain.

Now that would be my party.

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