As leader of the anti-immigration UK Independence Party, Roger Knapman has railed against eastward expansion of the European Union and opposed the use of imported labour.
However, political doctrine appears to have given way to the need for thrifty home improvement; Mr Knapman has hired cheap Polish builders to do up his country mansion, it was revealed yesterday.
(Source: The Independent)
I’ve seen Roger Knapman on the telly being interviewed. He’s a racist. Like the BNP bootboys, he can’t admit that in public, of course, but it’s all there in his xenophobic spiel. He’s also a classic petit-bourgeois fascist: he’s turned to the right not due to any insane philosophical delusions but through myopic selfishness. He’s basically a Tory.
Therefore, I’m not surprised by the above news story. It’s typical of our politicians, whatever flavour, that they say one thing and then do the opposite. This is no different to a Labour politician sending their kids to a fee-paying school.
But I wonder what the nutjobs who are UKIP supporters will make of Knapman’s praise of foreign workers in preference to Brits?
What makes the story even funnier is that the Little Englander’s son dedicates his working life to sourcing cheap immigrant labour:
Mr Knapman, an MEP and the UKIP’s leader since 2002, recruited the workers through his son, whose company specialises in bringing foreign labour to Britain.
(Source: The Independent)
Does no-one in UKIP see the contradictions here? How can you be a racist party and have a leader who loves immigrant labour and relaxed international labour flow?
Oh, what a world, what a world…