Matthew Norman of The Independent has already got a bit speculative over a future relationship between The Sun and UKIP:
It now seems inconceivable that he (Murdoch) will back David Cameron in a general election, and given that he has warmed to neither Ed Miliband nor the Lib Dems, this leaves two options. He must either order The Sun to abstain or come out for Nigel Farage, who best reflects his feelings on Europe, in a brazen effort to avenge himself on the entire political establishment and shift those tectonic plates.Of course, Kavanagh's 'Europhobic' slur on UKIP shows that The Sun is not exactly a staunch supporter right now. But it is an intriguing possibility going forward. And after all, there is only one Party speaking about properly restricting immigration, sticking two figures up to the ECHR to boot Abu Qatada out and arguing for EU withdrawal. All things that go down very well with The Sun's readership.
2 comments:
I've never really understood why papers that lean a certain way with political opinions that are in concordance with UKIP's are sometimes the papers that are most hostile to UKIP.
As you said, why is The Sun so anti UKIP when it's readership is just so UKIP
And why is the Daily Mail desperate never to say a good thing about UKIP, even though the paper's views are most of the time in line with UKIPs?
I think those two papers are just stuck on the attitude they had towards UKIP from many years ago, and havent updated their attitude since because of a lack of interest in doing basic journalism- research.
We'll see how many of them bother to attend UKIP's September conference.
UKIP really need to tackle the idea that we are in any way, "Europhobic".
We love Europe but are opposed to a profoundly anti-democratic, corrupt and exorbitantly expensive political organisation called the EU.
We will happily trade with member states of the EU and engage with them in all areas where we agree with them to our mutual benefit.
But we are also rightly opposed to them creating our laws without the British People being given any say whatsoever on those laws.
That is not "Europhobic" or "xenophobic" or any other sort of "Johnny Foreigner hating Little Englander"
Reserve those insults for the BNP or National Front.
I love Europe, but hate the EU.
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