shazsha wrote:Whether the media have got the knives out for the UKIP, or not
I don't think there is too much doubt about that, is there?
The Daily Mail website is running two or three anti-UKIP stories every day.
Apologists for this campaign say that UKIP are merely being held to the same scrutiny as the other parties.
No, they aren't. The papers are actively seeking mud to throw at UKIP and letting the others off.
Very simple test. Google "LibDem child sex" and see how many hits you get. Dead silence in the papers. There is mud there to be thrown at the LibDems, should the media wish to do so. Or the other main parties, should they wish to do so. But they don't.
The fact is that there is a political concensus in the UK. All the main parties are in favour of EU membership, mass immigration, no death penalty and the only God in the country being the great God of The Economy. All of them are sub-sets of big business or rich men.
Should any new party oppose that, whether it be the BNP, UKIP or the Vote Methodist party they will be patronised as being imbeciles,
until they start becoming popular.
At which point they will be ruthlessly attacked - which is what is happening now.