News: "But all three contenders for the post were considered unworthy of support by UKIP, including Bronislaw Geremek, a renowned scholar and a founder of the Solidarnosc who emerged from prison under the Communists to become Foreign Minister of a liberated Poland.
Mr Geremek's vision of Europe, honed at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Sorbonne was rejected by Mr Kilroy- Silk who offered an alternative view of the Continent: somewhere to go on holiday and buy clothing."
Pandering to popularism has never been so entertaining. The UK Independence Party are the epitome of Conservative: Destroy progress in order to hold on to a warm illusion of national identity based on an imperial past.
UKIP may be humorous to anyone with even a rudimentary curiosity, but they reinforce the dumbing down of the populace in order to further their own aims. This may be funny, but it is as much milking people of their votes as the the Republic/Democrat system in the US.
Time for some Deliberative Democracy. Someone. Please?
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
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