Letter: Ex-Tory voter reveals reason Ukip is attracting supporters
The big question is why so many ordinary people are ditching their traditional political parties in their droves to support Ukip. I am just one perhaps I can, in these lines, present some of the reasons.
As a former Conservative councillor and life-long Conservative voter I feel that I have been deserted by British politics rather than having left the Conservative Party.
It is a great truth that "all we all want is what we want", of course, but let's consider the very essence of political argument.
Each of us argues from a position of self- interest, few from the standpoint of the common good. In the broad sense Ukip encompasses all of that, the interests of the individual married with the common good.
Ukip is not another Liberal Party or loony fringe pressure group. We are in essence a party free from political dogma, free from the interests of Trades Unions or the City. We are a party of people drawn from all walks of life, we are very much of the people, reflecting the common view.
As a conservative, small "c" of the 1980s it was clear that many things needed to change to rescue Britain from what had become a path of self destruction.
The great Dragons, the Far Left, Militant and Socialism in its extreme form had been slain, but what of the now? Well the now presents us with a new Dragon, the EU.
I could not see and cannot see a St George in the Conservative Party nor the underlying will to tackle the issues. Nigel Farage, leader of Ukip, is such a man, free from political constraint, born of conviction.
The Dragon that is European federalism is thriving, devouring the very lifeblood from Britain, you and I. Britain is paying more than £50,000,000 a day for the privilege of belonging to an organisation that frankly has delivered no benefit to this country or it's people.
In return we have laws forced upon us that prevent us from properly dealing with political extremists, our parliament has become impotent and to add insult to injury we have to support an influx of 497,000 immigrants year on year. We have the talent, the will and the determination to prosper as Great Britain.
Mark Jarrold, Craven Arms
