nigel farage is a hoxer... google: nigel farage admits his party was/is a joke
Rubbish. All Farage has admitted is that his party is full of eccentrics. However, these people are not genuine "eccentrics", it is just that they only seem that way because they talk honestly and genuinely about things without self-censoring themselves due to political correctness and other absurdities. Mainstream non-UKIP politicians, by contrast, such as Cameron and Milliband, all try to be slimy nonentities who who are as empty of personality in official engagements as possible for fear of losing votes, and dare not address seriously any genuine UK problem such as immigration or the national deficit, also for fear of losing votes.
Take a recent example. A UKIP candidate was made to resign simply because, as Farage pointed out, he had said words like "Chinky" and "poofter" which British people use in normal conversation. In other words, nowadays, British politicians are absurdly expected to maintain a sort of Orwellian "Newspeak" instead of talking like normal people.
I had similiar experiences. I used to refer to people of Pakistani origin as "Pakis" until I finally read somewhere, after years, that it was considered a racial slur. This is ridiculous as it is only a diminutive of "Pakistani" and therefore completely meaningless- calling them "Asian" is very stupid as that confuses them with East Asians/Orientals. Similiarly, I have often used the word "Negro" in the past to refer to blacks(because of terms like "Negro spirituals") , only to find that, since c.1990(?) it is now absurdly considered a "racist" term by Liberals etc. , despite blacks/Negroes of an older generation still happily using the term. More confusing still, apparently, in Brazil, calling someone "black" is an insult whereas calling them a "Negro" is not, and scientific words like "mulatto" are commonly used in Brazil, but prohibited in the US! Besides, Negroes/blacks have varying skin-colour so calling someone who has white or brown skin "black" simply because of some Negro ancestry does not make sense. Plus, one does not refer to Orientals as "yellows" or South Indians as "browns" for example. So the modern, politically-correct terms are idiotic, compared to the ones used in the past.
I despise such orwellian newspeak(another example being the word "gay" used to describe homosexuals) because the speaker should determine what is offensive or inoffensive, not the listener, as, otherwise, absolutely anybody could take offense at the slightest whim or inclination, thus banning free speech.The US is lucky in having the 1st amendment as, despite social pressure, it is possible to say what one wants to say without being jailed for it.
