UKIP Are Awful (18th April)

With the UK General Election just a few short weeks away, there's been more and more press coverage of the UK Independence Party, and their leader Nigel Farage.

He looks exactly what you'd expect a man named Nigel would look like.

Now I don't want to waste all my ammunition on Nige and UKIP; after all, I anticipate that there will be many more editions of UKIP Are Awful before the election on 7th May. However, for the uninitiated...





This is Nigel.

Ugh, what a bellend.

He's just a normal, British bloke with a pint glass in his hand. Doesn't he look trustworthy? What a man of the people. Anyway, Nige and his party rose to prominence with a pledge to get the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, because...sovereignty...national pride...paying too much...BLOODY FOREIGNERS!

An actual UKIP poster. Coincidentally, there are also about 26 million reasons why it's not true.

They branched out from this single issue to be a party of a more all-round, holistic bigotry and small-mindedness. Now they're xenophobic on a whole number of issues, and they want your vote in the General Election!

Man of the people, Nigel Farage.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. Today's post concerns Nige's comments that raising the minimum wage in the UK would encourage Romanian immigrants to come. Now, as somebody pointed out in the comments to the article, this logic is spurious at best:

Bravo.

Or, as another commenter put it more succinctly:

Anyway, that's the end of the first installment of UKIP Are Awful, unfortunately I'm sure there'll be many more installments between now and election day.