No British politician grins at present more often in the cameras as Ukip leader Nigel Farage. He has good reason: Survey Institute see his right-wing populist party in the European elections on May 22, in the head-to-head race with Labour.
The political arena is not new territory for the 50-year-old Nigel Farage. Since 1999, the Briton is MEP. With his speeches in the European Parliament the head of the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) has become the YouTube star. The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, he attested in a speech the charisma of a damp washcloth. The neckline was clicked a thousand times.
In the European elections of 2009, the British EU Gegnermit were 16.5 percent of the vote in second place. This time, see Survey Institute, the party now has more than 20 years, the withdrawal from the European Union demands in a head-to-head race with Labour. Ukip might even win the election.
The fact that Ukip is so strong because the media-savvy party leader has a large share. We meet Nigel Farage in Cologne, where he speaks at the invitation of the AFD-related “boys alternative”.
Nigel Farage knows exactly how you have to pack radical demands . But he can not be everywhere at once . During the election campaign , the Ukip leader must rely on the party base . For example, in Peterborough, an hour’s drive north of London. 180,000 inhabitants, an average British city. If there were there not one of the largest Polish communities in the country. According to the 2011 census almost 17,000 foreigners have moved to Peterborough to the EU enlargement , many of them from Poland. 2011 lived more than 6000 people from Poland in the city.
A majority of Britons rejects immigration in the current magnitude. They do not trust your government to reduce immigrant numbers. Ukip , however, promises easy answers to complicated questions . The party argues that the EU immigration can only restrict when Britain leaves the European Community. Best immediately. No ifs and buts.
But how exactly the party uses the resentment towards Eastern European immigrants ?
In Peterborough we have an appointment with Barry Hyland . He is Ukip member since 2010. He used to work with party could not care less . Hyland was born in Peterborough. He wants to show us what his opinion is running there wrong – and why the European Union is to be to blame.
Barry Hyland does not mince his words when it comes to his England and his Peterborough. No Stammtisch Parole is the 73-year-olds to shame.
Is that on the official campaign events of Ukip the case?
We drive to Luton, a town near London. In an information evening, two European election candidates want to imagine. No other party would lead her campaign as close to the base, bragging the Ukip officials who decorate the clubhouse of Crawley Green Sports & Social Club in the party colors. 10,000 invitations for the event you have distributed. “Free Public Meeting” called the party the event – that “free and open to the public” does not necessarily apply for the press, we do not know there.
In Luton Ukip is presented as a party of Raging, the sounds. Also in Peterborough it was unflattering to small-minded. In Cologne, under the aegis of party leader Farage, the EU-hatred is finely packaged. So sound room slogans by academics salon.
These two different sides make the party probably so successful. With the populist slogans to protest voters can win, and was safe performances by the party leaders in the political arena to give the British EU-haters to paint a bourgeois party.
Still sitting populists not in the House, but the European elections should be a dress rehearsal -. For the General Election 2015 At the moment it looks as though even Farage’s dreams come true of a catchment to the House of Commons.
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