Eminently Sane

The UK Independence Party has suffered a bit of a setback in its attempt to shrug off its image as the party even a Conservative leader can describe with a straight face as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists". A certain Geoffrey Clark, who is campaigning for seats on councils in Kent and Gravesham, posted a "personal manifesto" including various constructive ideas for reducing the national debt, such as compulsory abortion for the disabled, re-writing of the Koran and free euthanasia advice for everyone over eighty, and poetry too. Various defenders of multiculturalist political correctitude raised a ruckus, against which UKIP initially defended their candidate; however, in honour of their position as the new Liberal Democrats, they later stabbed him in the back and branded his views "abhorrent". Apparently UKIP does not bother too much about its candidates' political opinions before allowing them to run under its name. Seeing which way the wind was blowing, Clark himself then disowned the views he had expressed, claiming that he was merely "throwing out matters" for consideration, since he wasn't qualified to consider them himself; so it is more than possible that his ejection from UKIP will result in nothing more than a move into the mainstream.