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Janerik Larsson
Janerik Larsson
Jag var i England över nyårshelgen och njöt av att kunna läsa de tidningar jag annars följer via min laptop i deras riktiga version: som papperstidningar. Då hittar man mycket mera intressant, menar jag.
En artikel i Daily Telegraph som jag fäste mig vid handlade om brittiska högerextrema UKIPs ordförande Nigel Farage och hans oro för att partiet ska uppfattas som rasistiskt. Inte undra på att han åtminstone tidigare velat hålla distans till Sverigedemokraterna:
Nigel Farage has admitted that his party will be ”buried” if people are able to link the UK Independence Party to a ”racist age”.
The Ukip leader made the unguarded comments at a meeting of senior party figures following allegedly racist comments made by a councillor on the internet.
En ny UKIP-medlem i parlamentet hade i samma artikel en intressant kommentar:
Douglas Carswell, who earlier this year became Ukip’s first MP in the Commons after defecting from the Conservatives, has warned that his party must show an ”inclusive” face and not blame immigrants for Britain’s woes if it is to become a serious force in politics.
He said that a said that a dislike of foreigners was ”not merely offensive but absurd”.
“No Ukip candidate should ever make the mistake of blaming outsiders for the failings of political insiders in Westminster,” he said.
“There has never been anything splendid about isolation.
“It was our interdependence that put the Great into Great Britain – and it is what sustains our living standards today. In such a world, a dislike of foreigners is not merely offensive, but absurd.”