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Stand
up to UKIP launch statement
The
2014 European Elections mark a watershed in British politics.
UKIP
is a right wing, racist,populist party which won over 27% of the vote;
a staggering 4,352,051 people voted for them and they beat the three mainstream
parties.
UKIP
presents itself as an anti establishment party and its leader, Nigel Farage,
claims to be a man of the people. This is a lie. UKIP wants
to introduce a flat rate of income tax of 31 per cent that means those
on
the starting and basic rate, will face huge tax increases. UKIPs
deputy leader called for the privatisation of the NHS. It has built up its
electoral base by both presenting itself as a party opposed to the European
Union, but more importantly by spreading poisonous lies and hatred towards
migrants and Muslims.
We
believe UKIP is a racist party. This may be something Farage and the partys
leadership is quick to deny. But in the run up to the European
elections UKIPs mask slipped. UKIP presents the anti-racist movement
with a major problem dragging British politics to the right. UKIP
is also a party of bigots, sexists, Islamophobes and homophobes. The rise
of UKIP has parallels with other far right and fascist parties, which
are growing across Europe. In France the fascist Front National gained
the biggest overall vote in the French European Elections. The PVV in
the Netherlands, another racist populist party, came third and in Hungary
the fascist Jobbik party came second.
UKIP
received disproportionate media coverage prior to the elections and any
party that received this level of coverage would have benefited at the
polls. Although UKIP received a high vote, 65 per cent of the
population did not vote. The mainstream political parties must do more
to engage these people and not chase the UKIP vote to avoid the danger
of racism being normalised in British society.
Now is the time to make a stand against UKIP. The lesson of
history is that we need unity against the far right and racism. Stand up to
UKIP is an umbrella organization which believes women, trade unions, anti-racists,
black, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, other faith
communities, LBGT, young people, students and all good people, must unite
and stand up to UKIP, racism and bigotry.
Please
join us.
Diane
Abbott MP
Len McCluskey Unite the Union General Secretary
Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London - 2000 2008
Owen Jones Writer and Journalist
Sally Hunt UCU Union General Secretary
Manuel Cortes TSSA Union General Secretary
Ava Vidal Comedian
Gerry Gable Editor/ Publisher Searchlight Magazine
Hugh Lanning Vice chair, Unite Against Fascism
Lynsey German. Convenor Stop the war coalition
Leon Silver President of the East London Central synagogue and
steering group member, Tower hamlets interfaith forum
Jo Cardwell We Are Waltham Forest
Denis Fernando Rainbow Coalition Against Racism
Sean Hoyle President Wessex Region of RMT Union
Lisa Fletcher Branch Chair Unite Community
Portsmouth and District
Jon Woods- President Portsmouth TUC Chair -Unison Portsmouth
City Branch
More
details are on our national website here
http://standuptoukip.org/
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