Okay, great, but that's beside the point. This is a thread about UK politics. You don't live int he UK and you admit that the extent of your knowledge is hearing one speech from one guy. And yet somehow you feel qualified to articulate an opinion.
I realize there are (terrible) parts of the Internet where everybody thinks their opinions on any topic are worth disseminating simply because they have them, but that's not true. That's wrong/bad.
Well I'm a bit guilty of commenting on US political threads too, but that's only cos politics interests me immensely and I wouldn't express opinions directly on US politics as like Tatty says it's too nuanced for outsiders to understand. I usually only present what happens in the UK as a contrast or for comparison purposes.
Don't know what you mean by the last sentence but I can assure you there are plenty of very nasty extremist right wing parties all over Europe.
On UKIP yes, they have no outward affiliations to the BNP, but what they are doing is taking BNP votes. Their leader Nigel Farage has a common touch. Despite being a public school educated banker (did I spell that right?) with his ciggie smoking, beer drinking public persona he puts out like he's just another bloke down the pub. Clever populist strategy. However he's had to be sacking various members of UKIP for awkwardly expressing underlying far right views in public, so goodness knows what goes on behind closed doors.
They're seeking to normalise prejudices and work on the usual way the right wing does of insiduously turning people against each other. They're building up votes by including whatever populist complaints are in the news at the moment into their manifesto. Worried about the NHS, immigrants, the EU, tuition fees? UKIP will have a policy for you, but what they won't have is an explaination of where the funding is coming from, but never mind about that. Farage said today they've found £3 billion to put into the NHS - where from? It seems like only yesterday Farage was telling us that the NHS should move towards an insurance system.
UKIP's headline policy is leaving the EU, but let's not bother thinking about what effect that will have on trade we have with other EU countries, after all it's only 50% of our exports and 51% of our exports.
* sacked Lord Christopher Monckton, who previously served as the party’s deputy leader and President in Scotland for homophobic comments
*Rozanne Duncan UKIP Councillor sacked from the party for apparently jaw dropping racist remarks allegedly saying 'said she had a problem with "negroes" because there was "something about their faces".
*Nikki Sinclaire sacked for saying while she was an MEP she wasn't willing to sit with "European parties within the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group who have a variety of extremist views.
*Godfrey Bloom MEP for saying that “no employer with a brain in the right place would employ a young, single, free woman”
* sacked senior UKIP member and former parliamentary candidate Dr Julia Gasper who claimed some homosexuals prefer sex with animals.
* sacked UKIP Croydon North candidate for tweeting: "A caring loving home is a heterosexual or single family. I don't believe (a gay couple) is healthy for a child."
* Olly Neville, the former UKIP Youth Chairman, sacked for supporting same-sex marriage.