Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Voting patterns changing as UKIP is being proved right
"For years, we in UKIP have been pointing out that the EU is a failure, both on its own terms and for this country. It is very hard for people to continue to caricature us as a party of fools, when the evidence that we were right is there on every news bulletin, and on the front pages of every newspaper.
And if UKIP were right about Europe, how about the impact of mass migration on services and the lower paid? How about a belief that education needs to accept difference and give opportunities for all, regardless of background or family wealth through a reintroduction of selection? How about the thought that businesses are not the enemy, but are vital for the growth of employment, and thus the life chances of every single one of us?
But UKIP are about so much more than that. To a UKIP member, the "I" letter of our name is so much more important than the UK, and certainly more than the Party. As a party, we are about hope and aspiration. And if we have aspirations for our country and our communities, it is because we trust those communities and the individuals within them.
If we believe that this country is better suited to make decisions over its future than others who do not have our interests at heart, how can we not believe the same of the counties and cities of our country? We believe firmly in localism and devolving real power down from Brussels, down from Westminster and down from the town halls into the place where power and control is best suited, into the hands of those over which it is exercised. You, the citizen."
