Mike here describes the way UKIP have tried to suppress an internet meme showing their real domestic policies, which also show just how nasty the party actually is. It demands the further privatisation of the NHS, even further tax cuts for the rich, with the burden passed on to everyone, the ending of paid maternity leave and holidays, and the legalisation of marital rape. There is absolutely no reason why women and anyone in the working class should vote for this highly reactionary, exploitative and misogynist party.
Was anybody else astonished to read, on Facebook this afternoon (May 12), that police had visited a person who had posted a version of the above meme on Twitter, and told said person to remove it as UKIP had made a formal complaint?
The truth of the matter became irrelevant very shortly after, when the image was merrily shared and re-shared across the social media by those of us (let’s face it; a version is directly above these words. VP is as much a part of this act as anyone) who weren’t going to put up with even the rumour of such heavy-handed behaviour.
Shortly afterwards, the referenced version of the meme appeared – it’s what you saw when you loaded up this article.
Readers with good taste in comedy will recognise our headline as a catchphrase of Lance Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army, made with reference to…
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