UKIP - The first 100 days

There actually aren't that many people at the top of UKIP, POGS. You'd think they could get their act together on one story, particularly as they knew it was going to be broadcast.
Go on, sigh away.

Ana, you'll have to enlighten me because I cannot think of any new legislation that Labour tried to get through in their last few months of government. All the stuff in Hansard seems to be legislation going through the house of Lords, which means it has already gone through committee in the commons.
Obviously you know better than Hansard.

Yes I get the idea durhamjen

When one labour MP says Ed Miliband is an idiot we must accept that to be true because the leader of the party is not be seen as the party spokesman. Hence Carswell trumps Forage .

Fair enough. [sigh]

Slight mix up in the quote there. I only copied it once. However, I'm sure you will get the idea.

"A Ukip MP believes a Channel 4 docudrama will only boost his party's appeal with voters, as the communications watchdog received more than 700 complaints.

Douglas Carswell said the broadcaster had missed the chance to provide "genuine radicalism" on television with Ukip: The First 100 Days, adding: "We just got Guardian television."

The programme mixed archive footage with imagined scenes, which included the depiction of rioting on the streets in the wake of a Ukip general election victory.

Ofcom said the programme prompted 731 complaints since it was shown last night.
Douglas Carswell said he could not imagine a similar programme being made about the Green PartyDouglas Carswell said he could not imagine a similar programme being made about the Green Party
"We will assess these complaints before deciding whether to investigate," an Ofcom spokesman said.

Ukip MEP and parliamentary candidate Gerald Batten called on Ofcom to launch an investigation to establish whether the programme breached the broadcasting code.

But Channel 4 defended the programme, insisting that it was fully in compliance with the code.

Mr Carswell, who became Ukip's first elected MP last October, said: "We are doing a great deal of work in the key seats that Ukip is focused on winning and the Channel 4 mockumentary reinforces the view amongst those voters that we are presided over by a smug, arrogant, out-of-touch commentariat class.

"The mockumentary was supposed to damage Ukip but I think it's reinforced the sense of cultural alienation and I think it makes people more likely to vote for Ukip against the cartel in Westminster.

[Noel Gallagher is not a fan of today's politicians]

[Farage fears dirtiest-yet election]


"Our cultural elites are just not good with politics - they are out of touch with the voters of Britain."

Mr Carswell said he found it interesting that the programme did not focus on Ukip's "success built on credible, liberal policies" demonstrated in recent by-elections.

The Clacton MP said: "It's the most egregious of bias but we have that from the state-funded and state-backed mainstream media every day. We get it from the BBC."

Mr Carswell said he could not imagine a similar programme being made about the Green Party, adding: "The only truth the documentary revealed was the bias of the commentariat class. I think it will magnify Ukip's appeal. We need to get our country back." "

Well that's okay, then, POGS. UKIP only has two MPs, and one of them disagrees with his leader. Doubtless he will change his mind when Farage tells him he has to!

...although the government does keep trying to fit in new legislation that it appears to have forgotten about over the previous 4.5 years.

Rather like the last Labour government, then in 2010? (Although I do realise they'd had rather more than 4.5 years in which to fit them in...)

UKIP do not think it will get them more votes, they didn't appreciate it at all.

Nigel Farage said it was :-

"A biased, partisan depiction', which of course it was.

It's hard to believe, I know, but it isn't officially electioneering time, so they can broadcast what they want. The director was interviewed this morning on the radio about that particular point.
I find it hard to believe that Parliament is still supposed to be sitting, although the government does keep trying to fit in new legislation that it appears to have forgotten about over the previous 4.5 years.

I taped the last quarter of an hour. Or thought I had, when I came to watch it the last five minutes had not taped so I don't know what happened in the end.

I too was amazed that this type of programme was broadcast when we have the election in the offing.

UKIP think it will get them more votes, so they are not bothered.
Before this, 2% of their voters had gone back to the Tories, so perhaps they will change their minds.

Well whoever it was, clearly they should be shot

I wonder who commissioned it.

The election is over two months away - for heavens sake - how long do you think the purdah period should be? People have died in the last week supporting freedom of speech.

I thought it was quite good.

I agree. Should not have been aired at this point.

Didn't see it but read the review and very surprised that it was shown this close to the election.

I didnt see it.
But, I think it was the Daily Mail who questioned whether a programme like that of say the Labour party would have been aired near an election.