Slithering from under his stone, Thatcherite serpent Nigel Farage triumphing in Thursday’s European elections would be treacherous for everything that’s decent about Britain.
This campaign’s about far more than Britain leaving Europe for the scheming Right-winger who posed as a man of the people – while living like a king at the secret expense of a rich tycoon under criminal investigation.
The sly reactionary, a trafficker of fake nostalgia at the expense of difficult truths, plots a coup that would threaten livelihoods, employment rights and public services.
Farage’s wealthiest backers invest in the creation of a nastier, narrower, nationalist Treasure Island to benefit the elite at the cost of conned masses.
Dishonesty’s the hallmark of his political heist as he dodges questions about personal funding, swerves his Brexit Party’s leading candidate in North West England thinking people should be free to watch child porn and runs fuming from a sick record of demanding NHS privatisation.
No income or job of the voters he’s hoodwinking will be too high a price for them to pay as fantasist Farage pursues ideological obsessions, inventing grievances and scaremongering his way to the polls.
David Cameron and Theresa May bear much responsibility.
He lost a catastrophic tactical gamble, then she surrendered herself as a prisoner to Tory headbangers.
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Conservatives learn nothing in favouring serial liar Boris Johnson as their leader and PM.
Nor is this Jeremy Corbyn’s finest hour when Labour could have challenged Farage by advocating his “unfinished business” fresh referendum early and loudly.
London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan ominously warns we’re in the middle of a battle for Britain’s soul.
It pains me to admit my side, a democratic socialist Left fighting for fairness and decency, is losing.
