I don’t like UKIP, wouldn’t vote for them or want to spend time with their membership. But I remember sitting in the cold under St Paul’s during Occupy and everyone talking about how bad global capitalism was, the IMF, the WTO etc etc. How there was a huge democratic deficit, people are disillusioned with representative politics, no-one feels like they have any control over what happens in their communities.
Why does the EU get a free pass on this? Global free trade deals don’t generally seem that popular on BB, but EU=good is just taken as an article of faith? Could it not be seen as a bit of a bankers’ club with better PR - exploiting people’s good intentions?
Is it possible that UKIP are now channeling some of the same frustrations that inspired Occupy - frustration with rich guys telling us that it’s a globalised world now, so just suck it up? Just in a more racist, less vegan way?
I’m posing all of these as questions because I’m still making my mind up.
