"A Hero for Europe"

Wilhelm

Peter

You are a nice guy and you mean well,but its very easy to mock. I thought the commercial was dopey but thats not UKIPs fault. Its the Ad agency who made it, they are to blame.

Whether its selling soft drinks, banks or cars, The Ad agencies like that overblown, multy culty, one worlder feel.

In2minds

About 30 years ago I walked through the wrong door at Moscow airport and ended up in the mechanics section. The woman who arrested me looked just like the narrator on this vid, small world eh?

Tom

You've been fooled I'm afriad. This is a viral ad, you can insert anyone's photo onto the screens. Derren Brown has done one with his face too.

Holly ......

Well. How comical was that then?
Only funny thing about it was UKIP(ERS) in support of Nige & UKIP used subttitles?
United Kingdom Independence Party(ers) should maybe HAVE targeted the people they are wanting to vote for UKIP and it's ers.
Nice piccy of Nige though.
Was that his mommy on the film?
English next time please.(and get Nige to hold hold his chin a bit)(Stop him looking so doopy)
He reminds me of wading through melted cheese..nice but makes you feel queezy if you get too much.

CW

I'm sorry but when something like this is produced what else are you supposed to do but mock?

David Lindsay

As much as anything else, the election of Nigel Farage would send the signal that UKIP was better off, not as a Tory pressure group lighting candles before icons of Margaret "Single European Act" Thatcher, but as a coalition of Old Tories, Old Labourites and Old Liberals who agreed, not just about the EU, but also about the threats to our sovereignty from America, Israel, the Gulf monarchies and global capital, so that it opposed the neoconservative wars abroad, and therefore also the neoconservative war against liberty at home. And as a movement as much in favour of grammar schools as in favour of British independence.

Thus would that election contribute, directly or indirectly, to the re-emergence of parliamentary representation in the tradition of the Attlee Government's refusal to join the European Coal and Steel Community on the grounds that it was "the blueprint for a federal state" which "the Durham miners would never wear". Of Gaitskell's rejection of European federalism as "the end of a thousand years of history" and liable to destroy the Commonwealth. Of the votes of most Labour MPs, and one Liberal, against Heath's Treaty of Rome. Of the Parliamentary Labour Party’s unanimous opposition to Thatcher's Single European Act. And of the 66 Labour MPs who voted against Maastricht, including, in Bryan Gould, the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so, while Nick Harvey also voted against and Simon Hughes abstained. And of the votes of every Labour and Liberal Democrat MP, without exception, against the Common Agricultural and Fisheries Policies annually between 1979 and 1997.

Parliamentary representation in the tradition of that half of the French Socialist Party which successfully opposed the EU Constitution. Of that half of the UKIP vote which, based on its geographical distribution, must be Old Labour or Old Liberal rather than Old Tory. And of the No2EU – Yes To Democracy list at the 2009 European Elections, which in London included Peter Shore's erstwhile agent, and which in the North West included the immediate past Leader of the Liberal Party.

And parliamentary representation no less in the tradition of Ministerial defence of the grammar schools by "Red Ellen" Wilkinson of the Jarrow Crusade, and by George Tomlinson. Of their academic defence by Sidney Webb and R H Tawney. Of their vigorous practical defence by Labour councillors and activists around the country, not least while Thatcher, as Education Secretary, was closing so many that there were not enough left at the end for her record ever to be equalled. Of their protection in Kent by a campaign long spearheaded by Eric Hammond. Of their restoration by popular demand, as soon as the Berlin Wall came down, in what is still the very left-wing former East Germany. And of their successful popular defence in the Social Democratic heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Buckingham, speak for the nation.

Percy

Totally in keeping with the undeniable crappiness that is UKIP.

Verity

Holly, if I paste your post into Google for a translation INTO English, what language do I key in in the FROM space?

Wilhelm

David Linsday

Are you writing a book, son ?

Beer Moth

Peter, it's good, but not in the same league as David Lindsay.

THX1138

Farage had to go his surname was far too Johnny Foreigner sounding for the Little Englanders in UKIP. Could almost be French!

And were is my favourite Little Englander TGF when you want him? Boring everyone to death in the 19th hole no doubt.

And Wilhelm if they can't order around a Sadvertising Agency about how the f**k do expect them to run anything else?

Watt Tyler

I'm still voting UKIP. I don't mind if they are naive with public relations. I'd much rather have that than a dishonest snake oil saleman like David Cameron who has no problem about exploiting a memorial service for a photo opportunity (or getting snapped on his bike while his big motor follows behind, or wrapped up in his artic clothing to prove his dedication to the AGW religion).

Like I have said before, it's not good enough to call UKIP loony, or to mock them because they aren't as slick as slippery "cast-iron" Dave. It will back fire.

Holly ......

Verity,
Whatever floats your bost hun.
No odds to me.Flattered you care so much
Thanks
Holly
xxx

JohnPage

Looks like they inserted a few images in a template - with a foreign language in it too!

Peter From Maidstone

The cheesy grin puts me off, but if this was shown enough times then it might work. If the press got behind it then it might work. This is really all politics is at present - how do we think Tony Blair got so far. Show a photo enough times and mould people's responses. It is easy to mock UKIP - whether or not this is a genuine ad - but the population has already allowed itself to be fooled for a decade by a group of people who are far, far more dangerous.

JohnAnt

I could imagine an even funnier version with Brown replacing Nige, and a 'Thank You Gordon' message at the end.
I loved the house-high photos posted on the sides of buildings - bit like Assad in Damascus.
If they let Gordo back in next GE, such photos will be coming to a council estate near you. Maybe they can animate them, and include the notorious YouTube grinathon.

Herbert Thornton

Thank you, Peter. That's the most hilariously funny thing I've seen in years. It reminds me of the film where Charlie Chaplin played Hitler, but this is even funnier because, as Peter says, it probably wasn't meant to be funny.

TGF UKIP

I smell a big fat rat here. A CCHQ rat in fact.

And BTW, THX 1138, irrespective of what some famous players get up to off the course, golf itself is a game testing character and integrity which goes a long way to explaining why so few of your lot seem to play it.