The growing mountain of evidence that UKIP are a Tory Trojan Horse party

For years I've been trying to point out that UKIP is a Tory Trojan Horse political party  to facilitate the interests of the hard-right fringe of the Tory party.

The UKIP Trojan Horse plot is simple enough. They constantly dress themselves up as an "alternative" to the mainstream political parties even though they share an almost identical hard-right ideological agenda with the Tory party.

By posturing as an alternative to the political status quo UKIP have managed to hoover up the votes of millions of dissatisfied voters who might otherwise have backed actual alternatives to the hard-right political orthodoxy that has annihilated working class jobs, wages and communities across the United Kingdom ever since 1979.

The genius of this Trojan Horse strategy is that it has used discontentment at the consequences of four decades of hard-right economic dogma in order to drag British politics ever further to the right.

There is abundant evidence that UKIP is essentially a branch of the Tory party. Their charismatic ideological leader Nigel Farage is a Thatcher-worshipping former Tory party activist, UKIP is completely riddled with ex-Tories who have passed through the revolving door between the Tory party and UKIP; the guy who wrote the 2010 UKIP manifesto was a Tory before he wrote it and is now a Tory again; the new UKIP leader Paul Nuttall actually stood as a Tory party candidate in Bootle back in 2002;and 90% of UKIPs donations are raised from millionaire former Tory party donors.

After the vote for Brexit the fact that UKIP are a Trojan Horse for promoting the interests of the radical hard-right fringe of the Tory party has become ever more apparent. Here are several very strong indicators.

• In September 2016 one of Nigel Farage's closest aides defected to the Tory party saying that Theresa May is essentially "delivering the 2015 UKIP manifesto".

• The fact that the Tories and UKIP are both backing Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond Park by-election is clear proof that they're pushing exactly the same radically right-wing agenda. Zac Goldsmith was guilty of utilising extreme-right BNP style propaganda tactics during his disgusting campaign to become Mayor of London, so it's no wonder that Ukippers have warmed to him so much that he's now essentially standing as a joint Tory-UKIP candidate in the guise of an "independent".

• Paul Nuttall is the UKIP's latest leader. Back in 2014 he let his true hard-right Tory agenda slip in a blog post in which he praised the Tory party for their backdoor privatisation of the NHS. Nuttall is such an Internet illiterate that he imagined that he could stop people pointing out his savagely anti-NHS views simply by deleting the webpage. Not only is the guy an out-and-out Tory who revels in the Tory destruction of the NHS, he uses the exact same revisionist "delete it from the Internet" tactics as the Tory party. 

• Suzanne Evans was the other UKIP leadership candidate. She is so fond of the Tory leader Theresa May that she would like to see May rule the United Kindgom as a political dictatorship. In fact she's so keen on scrapping parliamentary sovereignty so that Theresa May is set free to make up the law as she goes along that she wants any judge who dares to stand up for democracy and parliamentary sovereignty to be sacked.

• Nigel Farage is another UKIP politician who is as keen as mustard to see Theresa May set the legal precedent that the Prime Minister can just make up the law of the land as they go along, completely free from parliamentary scrutiny or approval. In fact Farage is so keen to support Theresa May's dictatorial urges that he even planned to raise a right-wing mob to intimidate the judiciary into scrapping the sovereignty of parliament.

UKIP and the Tories backed a joint political candidate in London; a UKIP defector to the Tories has stated that the political ideologies of the two parties are essentially identical; the UKIP leadership favourite shares radical anti-NHS views with the Tory party; another UKIP leadership candidate supports the Tory Prime Minister's dictatorial urges so strongly that she's calling for judges to be sacked in order to achieve it; and the most famous UKIP politician of all is intent on raising a mob to secure Theresa May's objective of scrapping parliamentary sovereignty and making up the law of the land as she goes along.

Of course Ukippers will try to attack me personally and decry this article as a "conspiracy theory", but the mountain of evidence that UKIP and the hard-right fringe of the Tories are essentially working together is absolutely damning, and growing all the time.

UKIP and the Tories are ideological blood-brothers, and the creation of a radically right-wing protest party has clearly and undeniably empowered the hard-right fringe of the Tory party.
After years of Ukippers' harking on about the importance of parliamentary sovereignty it's astounding that they have turned so savagely against the concept because they now don't want to see Theresa May and her hard-right government constrained by it. This complete Ukipper U-turn on parliamentary sovereignty illustrates two things very clearly indeed. UKIP support Theresa May and her Tory government so strongly that they would gladly sacrifice British political traditions like parliamentary sovereignty and the independence of the judiciary to support her dictatorial tendencies, and a huge number of their supporters are clearly capable of truly Orwellian levels of Doublethink over the concept of parliamentary sovereignty.

Not only have UKIP managed to drag the Tory party so much further to the right, they're now openly supporting Tory candidates in elections and threatening to raise a right-wing mob to intimidate the judiciary into allowing Theresa May to scrap parliamentary sovereignty and rule the UK as a right-wing dictator.

The reality is absolutely obvious. The people who believe in absurd conspiracy theories are not those who point out the fact that UKIP are a Tory Trojan Horse party, it's those who are actually gullible enough to believe that UKIP are an alternative to the political status quo, rather than a tool to further empowering the hard-right fringe of it.

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The Brexiter U-turn on democracy

We all remember how Brexiters used "democracy" as one of their core arguments in favour of quitting the EU. Their simplistic argument relied on creating the caricature of the EU being a deeply anti-democratic behemoth, and how it would be a triumph for democracy to repatriate political decision making to the UK.

It didn't matter at the time that many people pointed out that the archaic and hugely disproportional Westminster voting system system, the deeply unequal constitutional arrangement between the four member nations, the unelected House of Lords, and not least the unelected head of state meant that the UK is massively more undemocratic than the EU, people bought into this "democracy" argument in their millions.

Fast forward a few months and this professed Brexiter love of democracy has been completely reversed in the wake of the High Court decision that Theresa May has no right to invoke Article 50 and begin the process of quitting the EU without first gaining parliamentary approval.

Suddenly Brexiters are out in force condemning the legal ruling and crying that MPs will try to undermine the economically suicidal "hard Brexit" they've been fantasising about. They wanted Theresa May to be able to draw up a fanatically right-wing Brexit strategy and then impose it on the British public without the faintest whiff of parliamentary scrutiny and they're throwing their toys out of their prams because the High Court has ruled that that would be undemocratic.

It's quite extraordinary how these people operate. If the concept of democracy is useful to their argument then they won't shut up about it, but as soon as the concept of democracy starts to get in the way of their hard Brexit wet dream, they suddenly prefer dictatorial authoritarianism with no democratic scrutiny whatever.

It was bad enough that Theresa May even tried to contest the case that she shouldn't be allowed to simply bypass parliament and conduct Brexit without any parliamentary scrutiny or approval. There's little better way of demonstrating to the public that she's a savagely right-wing authoritarian than trying to give herself the power to make huge decisions without any parliamentary approval whatever.

The UKIP leadership challenger Suzanne Evans has upped the anti-democratic extremism game though. She objects so strongly to the pro-democratic High Court decision that parliamentary approval is required before Theresa May can trigger Article 50 that she's calling for the judges who made the decision to be sacked.

Brexiters like Suzanne Evans want a dictatorial Prime Minister to go about the Brexit process with no parliamentary scrutiny or approval whatever, and if the courts say otherwise they want the judges sacked. Against a background of the Daily Express re-interpreting the concept of "democracy" to mean imprisonment without trial for anyone who dares to disagree with us, the idea of sacking judges for daring to rule in favour of democracy is extreme stuff.

The United Kingdom is rapidly becoming a very intolerant place where the ideology of Brexiterism is held supreme by a large number of extreme right-wingers, and other considerations like parliamentary sovereignty, democratic scrutiny of the actions of the government, judicial independence and freedom of speech are continually being slung onto the scrap heap.

Within a matter of months the Brexit camp have gone from singing the praises of democracy and asserting the sovereignty of the UK parliament, to a cacophony anti-democratic shrieking because the High Court has ruled that the UK parliament is sovereign and should have a vote about whether the Brexit plan Theresa May and the three Brexiteers eventually manage to cobble together is good enough to justify invoking article 50 and beginning the process of quitting the EU.

Of course people voted for Brexit for all manner of reasons, not just because of the "democracy" argument. But for those who did somehow buy into the Brexiter democracy argument, then this anti-democratic wailing from Brexiters like Nigel Farage and Suzanne Evans over the pro-democratic Article 50 ruling must surely be a massive flashing "you've been duped" sign that is pretty much impossible to ignore?

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