#oliveworld

So, in general, what’s mostly known about ukip? They want to leave the EU, stop immigration so those scary people of other nationalities and ethnicities won’t steal all of our jobs up! I’m betting that’s all you can really name, yeah? 

Well, yeah, that’s most of the public image, however. They actually do have other opinions on issues, and somehow they’re never reported on on a big scale, and they should be. They’re racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic and transphobic [x] among other things. 

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[x] Reasons why women shouldn’t vote Ukip (cw: misogyny)

[x] Why we should take Nigel Farage seriously (cw: racism, sexism, islamaphobia)

[x] Uh, the UKIP guy who genuinely thought that the flooding was caused by the equal marriage law then being introduced in England and Wales. Baring in mind, those radio comments mentioned inside the article only happened because he voiced those views in a local paper and was sent on air to defend them by the UKIP party, but only after he spoke on the show was he suspended [x]. (cw: homophobia, cw: holocaust mention, possible conversion therapy cw)

[x] UKIP’s woman problem. Farage admits ukip has woman problem: Insults women in same sentence. Still has no clue why UKIP has a woman problem. 

"Prioritise social housing for people whose parents and grandparents were born locally"  [x] That’s the UKIP policy website. This is just, this is so racist it’s nauseating. This idea would discriminate against a massive, massive chunk of the people of colour in the united kingdom. It is also xenophobic, but this one is mainly aimed at people of colour, lets be honest. Also, literally the only place i have ever heard of people rating people on such status is from the nazis. Really. Incidentally, this would actually affect you if your grandparents were jewish refugees fleeing the holocaust. That says it all.

[x] UKIP’s alliance with the Polish KNP (cw: holocaust denial, cw: racist slurs, cs: anti-semitism, cw; domestic abuse, cw: misogyny) UKIP’s political alliances lay with extremist right wing groups. Literally surprised they don’t have the KKK on speed dial. 

[x] the political leader Nigel farage admires most? Vladimir Putin. You heard that right. Putin. 

Okay, i got those things by googling UKIP + ‘sexism’ ‘racism’ ‘homophobia’ ‘transphobia’. I literally just picked one or two from many. If you google the same thing, there will be more material. So much more. And those articles probably contain links to other shitty things this party has said and done.

The conclusion is that, UKIP is gaining more votes by the boat load but doesn’t get treated like a proper political party, and while i abhor the idea that they would be a proper party, they need to be because Nigel farage gets away with saying things that, had david Cameron, Nick Clegg or Ed Milliband said, they’d have had to resign on the spot.  

A lot of the UK seems to view him and his party as that annoying uncle that gets too drunk at parties and spouts his sexism, racism and homophobia much to the embarrassment of the other guests and they shouldn’t. He is dangerous. Well, okay, he’s fine if you’re an upper class past third generation white male who enjoys the views of traditional masculinity and is also rich. Everybody else? Well they’re screwed.