Chris28 wrote:
And UKIP can bugger off with their thirsty vampire comment too - this from the boys who bowl up to get their money, do feck all and don't even represent the people who voted for them. If anyone is a bloodsucker i'ts them
Radio Leeds had Mike Hookem, UKIP Euro MP for somewhere in Yorkshire on for an hour this morning in an "in depth" chat about their party and his opinions on various bits and bobs, I say in depth because thats what it was advertised as whereas in reality the deepest depth it reached was him repeating time and again that their manifesto for the 2015 general election would be released "mid January", I actually think he was making that bit up because the interviewer kept pushing him on policy making.
He was also described as UKIP's defence spokeperson but when asked what experience he had of defence openly admitted that he had none but then again "neither do any of the other politicians at Westminster" so that was ok too.
Finally they got around to the european parliament and what he was doing there anyway when the one policy that his party have is to rid themselves of a job, he said he'd be happy to "join the dole queue again" if it meant leaving the EU and simply wafted away any discussion on what benefits may (or may not) exist for Britain remaining a member, clearly the discussion was getting a bit difficult for him at that point and when the interviewer asked why he needed a chauffeur driven car to take him from the airport to his funded apartment every time he travels to Brussels the answer was that all the other Euro MP's do it and anyway, sometimes they share a limo so thats even saving us money isn't it.
In the hour, that was about as meaningful as it got, he agreed with all the callers who rang to support him and dismissed anyone with a negative comment as "well they must be tories or labour supporters", when asked about the aged DJ Mike Read and his calypso it was ok because it was humour and "It ain't half hot mum" does humour just like that, it was pointed out that a lot of 1970s TV was racist by todays standards but that flummoxed him too much so they had to change the subject.
UKIP are not shallow at all, they aren't deep enough to describe as shallow, if they were a piece of paper they'd be tracing paper or clear drafting film, its so easy to see straight through them into nothingness.
