Who's afraid of the big bad UKIP/Bexit party Ltd.?

Well, it turns out that the simple answer to that question is, moderate Tories.

But why?

Well, extreme far right Tories said they had to be. After all, evil Nigel was coming to steal their seats!

Except, was he really?

The politics of fear is an approach long perfected in the USA where either Nazis (or the redcoats if we go back even further), the Communists (Reds under the bed!) and more recently terrorists have been set up as the enemy to be rolled out every time what passes for moderates in the US start to gain traction politically.

What does this have to do with right wing Tories?

It's the same thing. They used UKIP and then BXP Ltd. to scare moderates into backing them, but was there ever really a threat to moderate Tory seats?

The UK uses a first past the post electoral system which has ensured that only two parties ever really stand a chance of winning major elections. So even at their most popular, the BXP/UKIP have never really stood a chance.

Look at Nigel Farage's woeful election history, he was once beaten by a guy dressed in a dolphin suit!

If that doesn't tell you something about his "party's" chances of winning seats in parliament, I don't know what does.

But, I hear you say, UKIP have had two MPs!

Both were loaned by the Tories, neither won their seats while part of UKIP and both very quickly scurried back to their actual home once their job was done.

But what about EU elections (you know, the "undemocratic" ones)?

They have always had a MUCH lower turnout than general elections and don't use the FPTP electoral system so it's easier to get elected ("undemocratically") to office by smaller parties.

So, the "threat" of the extremists was never anything more than a right wing ploy to keep moderate Tories in line.

And now our political system is under attack from the very people sworn to uphold it.

Scary times.

A VERY American coup

Recently Donald Trump has said that those who worked on the Mueller report are traitors. This fits in with his portrayal of anyone who is against him as being against America.
In his mind Trump = America. A very dangerous situation.

This is dictator behaviour.

America needs to be extremely careful during the coming elections to ensure that:

A: There is no election fixing. It's something there is a very long history of in the US, usually on the Republican side (tho sometimes the Dems have meddled also, just nothing like as much).

B: That trump doesn't concoct a story-line where he can claim the elections were corrupted by the so-called Deep State (lol, yeah) against him and simply refuses to give up the presidency.

This is not as far fetched as it may seem, he has form when it comes to this kind of thing. Had he not "won" the 2016 election (by getting less votes) due to the electoral college method he was already preparing such a story-line (he had previously attacked the electoral college method, but when it enabled his "win" he suddenly dropped that line).

Even some members of the Republican party have started to speak out against him, and (most shocking) Fox "news" have done so (tho they usually try to refute the criticism later). His reaction to these transgressions has been to attack those responsible.

Trump has always seen anyone who doesn't wholeheartedly agree with him as being his "enemy", when he equates those who don't agree with him as being enemies of America, expect very dark times ahead for the USA.