Revolutionary Rants

Today the new Robert Kilroy-Silk, erm, sorry I mean Veritas, party launched their ‘manifesto’. Mr Kilroy-Silk use his podium to decry the ‘liberal fascists in London’ and the ‘multi-culturalists’; claiming that ‘no one had voted for Britain to become multi-cultural. This protestation really sticks in the throat, as Britain has always - more or less - been a multi-cultural society; we all have roots in various cultures - be in Roman, Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Irish, Pakistani, Polish, Romany, or, indeed, our current largest immigration groups (whatever Mr Kilroy-Silk and the Murdoch press may say) Australians and Americans.

Also, one of the main reasons for immigration in this country is because we the Commonwealth - which, less we forget, was our own choice to ‘control’ - and because we as a nation needs immigration.

What’s more, how can you trust a man who changes his mind like he changes his socks?! Not only has he abandoned UKIP after he failed to take the leadership, but - bearing in mind he was once a Labour MP - he now espouses a manifesto which will deal with the EU thus: “We will replace the Treaties on European Union with a free trade agreement. We will govern ourselves with our own Parliament in Westminster.”

Sounds more like Mrs Thatcher to me… Of course, we live in a democracy (apparently) and we are all free to change our minds on any issue, but Mr. Kilroy-Silk, as was shown on the recent programme ‘Kilroy’s Week With the Gypsies’, doesn’t even seem to test out another person’s point of view - he simply thrives on the nastiest side of Britain; the fearful, racist, conservative (in the traditional sense) and individualist side. He isn’t saying anything new, he isn’t a ‘pure’ politician, he is just a beautifully formed product of the 1980s and the New Right; so in love with himself and the idea of himself that he cannot accept that what he says isn’t always right.