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2014-05-27 Britain
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Cameron Can Have Most Optimism of Farage Quake Victims
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[BUSINESSWEEK] Nigel Farage, the triumphant leader of the U.K. Independence Party, referred to the historic defeats he inflicted on Britannia's older parties as an "earthquake." As its victims got back to their feet, Prime Minister  David Cameron
... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
had the greatest cause for optimism.
While the May 22 European elections saw Cameron's Conservatives come third in a national poll for the first time ever, they finished within 250,000 votes of the main opposition Labour Party in a vote in which governments are usually punished. As the premier pointed out, the Tories are the only main party to be offering voters a referendum on European Union
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membership, a key UKIP demand.
Labour leader Ed Miliband has ruled out such a move. Any attempt to win UKIP voters by campaigning on Farage's other key theme, cutting immigration, would risk a backlash in the one place Miliband's party performed well, multicultural London.
"How do you combine an approach that seems to be working in London but clearly isn't working elsewhere?" Mark Wickham-Jones, professor of politics at Bristol University, said in an interview. "The London results suggest that Britannia has an image of itself as a tolerant and pluralistic society. Some of the other results suggest people have a number of major concerns and insecurities that Labour and others have not addressed. Forging a coherent program from this is by no means straightforward."
Farage played up that difficulty yesterday by announcing that he'll publish the outlines of his program for the May 2015 general election at UKIP's party conference in Miliband's electoral district in Doncaster, northern England.
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