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Originally Posted by Z
To be fair - a lot of people ironically follow Joey Barton's nuggets of wisdom on Twitter and considering how alienated the vast majority of the population is from the politics of the UK I can only imagine that trying to draw people in with controversial media figures is the best way to get people to tune in. I think UKIP getting any kind of traction in the UK is simply because the current state of play of politics is dismal and people are fed up and are taking their frustrations out by voting for a radical extremist party. I don't think people are any more inherently racist than they have been in the past, it's just that there's nothing worth voting for in this country so they're getting behind the only party with bold views on anything.
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Good and fair post in my opinion. This also was sort of what Joey was saying on QT as well.
As he said, UKIP appeared to be the best of a bad lot at this time in those elections just held,perhaps he should have said it was like a choice between 4 ugly guys as to who was the best on the day.
He would have had no controversy to that comment at all.
As you rightly say, he has dedicated followers on twitter across a range of topics too so it seems plenty like to hear him or read what he says.