nobody can eat fifty eggs said:
He's a pro-European big Government Conservative. Sort of a New Tory rather than the old school "cut the budget" Tories.
Everybody is essentially in a race to the centre and the Tory and Labour voters who have a bash at each other are hilarious. It's like the Catholic and the Protestants who agree on almost every word yet manage to focus on the tiny, tiny, differences that they have. They're interchangable politically.
As much as you can slag off UKIP, and I can slag them off forever between now and the end of time, they are the first real party to offer a choice to the largest voting bloc in England - the right-leaning middle classes. I dislike UKIP's ideology but at least they actually HAVE an ideology past "we will tell you whatever it takes for you to vote for us" which is where Lab/Con are at.
UKIP won't get my vote and I'm sure many of their supporters would agree that they don't want my vote. I'm a far left globalist socialist, they aren't trying to represent my opinions and they shouldn't try to be going after my vote. What they ARE doing is going after the right wing populist votes that have sustained the Tories and post-1997 New Labour as their foundation, and offering them something close to their ideology so that they give them a decision to make. Not a fan of their adversarial or anti-Establishment style because I think it's marketing guff just as Russell Brand's is, but I am glad that they exist so that SOME of the people in the United Kingdom feel represented by their voting choice at least.