'Bongobongogate'.

We must hand it to UKIP; it adds to the gaiety of the nation.

 

Just when it was sliding in the polls due to the usual media boycott  of any story about the Party unless it is derogatory, along come the Guardian and the BBC with a great lungful of the oxygen of publicity.

 

Step forward Geoffrey Bloom MEP.

 

He was railing against Cameron’s lunatic foreign aid policy, which has ring-fenced the budget and increased it by 30% at a time when vital services, such as defence, are receiving deep cuts.

 

He asked why we continued to send £1billion each month to countries that spent it on fighter jets, or to ‘Bongobongoland’ where it would be spent on Ray-ban shades, Ferraris and French apartments’.

 

His speech was secretly recorded by a lefty mole and duly ended up with the Guardian and the BBC.

 

Both went ballistic, not over his claims of corrupt use of aid funds but over ‘Bongobongoland’. ‘Racist’,  they squealed. ‘Nonsense’ says Geoff ‘No more racist than ‘Ruritania’.

 

It is not so long ago that Dr. N’grafta, the dictator of Gombola (formerly Gombololand) made frequent appearances in ‘The Way of the World’. Nobody said ‘racist’. In those more sensible days we took it at face-value – an amusing parody of vile African dictators like Amin and Bokassa.

 

What worries the Guardian and the BBC is that although they desperately try to portray UKIP as a one-trick pony obsessed with Europe, the truth is that UKIP has ratcheted politics to the right (and ‘the right’ means anyone who is not one of the Guardian’s tiny readership). UKIP has succeeded in getting the two unmentionables – immigration and EU membership – into mainstream politics, so that both are  top of the agenda for all parties. Now we are told that Dave has this cunning plan to catch  UKIP bathing and walk away with their clothing, following Disraeli’s precedent

 

The problem with our elites is that as they sip their glass of organic Freetrade white in the vegan wine-bar run by the lovely Julian and Sandy, they don’t know that in ‘The Dog and Pessary’ down the road the Sunday lunchtime saloon-bar philosophers are agreeing wholeheartedly with Nigel Farage, who is having a pint of Adnam’s Broadside with them. UKIP has the common touch and they don’t.

 

Perhaps it is time to revive Peter Simple’s Prejudometer that registered prejudoms . This was the internationally recognized unit for measuring racism. It registered on the Alibhai-Brown scale. When pointed at a racist, it let off a deafening scream that didn’t stop until the miscreant shouted an anti-racist slogan.