UKIP campaign ads do the job

The reaction of the MSM to UKIP’s four campaign ads is interesting. Most news sites feature three of them, but the fourth – the EU bureaucrat lounging in a limo whilst a ‘hard working mum’ perches on one buttock next to Cyril Smith on a Routemaster – is rarely seen. As an attack on the political class, a major vote-winner for UKIP, it doesn’t fit wit the MSM narrative that UKIP is racist. A piece with the headline ‘MPs say UKIP ads disrespect LibLabCon’ isn’t really a reader magnet.

Of course all four ads are a poke at Clegg with a sharp stick, repeating the ‘facts’ that Farage came under scorn for during the head-to-heads; 26m Romanians (though it doesn’t say so), 75% of laws (Reding’s figure, which I heard her quote, and unsurprisingly a tad high) and a building worker who appears to have nicked a hi-vis vest and hard hat from his previous employer. And not a black face in sight. 

Of course one of the benefits of free movement and no borders in Shengen countries is that the tens of thousands of African migrants landing in Italy find few obstacles on their journey to Calais, where they pile up waiting their turn in the back of a lorry to the land of milk and honey. UKIP won’t mention this, of course. And won’t mention the fake business school scams that allow African ‘students’, most of whom seem to work as security guards, bring their wives over to have babies on the NHS. UKIP don’t have to mention non-EU immigration; those suffering its effects will vote for them anyway. 

Wit the election exactly a month away, few Brits will be able to distinguish a Romanian voice from a Lithuanian, Latvian or Ukrainian one; all east Europeans tend to be classed as ‘Polish’ anyway. However, most people can distinguish Roma gypsies and their, erm, ambivalent attitude to property ownership rights.and it’s the Roma and their activities that will turn the tide – but not before May. The MSM and  LibLabCon are in an invidious position; they can hardly defend uncontrolled immigration, and defending a political oligarchy and the pillage of the corporates won’t get them votes. Their only option is to do what Clegg tried to do – attack UKIP. And being British, champions of the bullied and enemy of bullies everywhere, the more they combine to attack Farage the more popular support he’ll get. 

So all in all job done I think.