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The current received wisdom is that Labour was the biggest loser in the European elections. But received wisdom has not been quite right in the head since it got whacked by a handbag back in 1979. Normal service is not expected to resume from this quarter any time soon.

Labour is, in fact, sitting pretty. It’s true that they betrayed their most loyal constituency, the working class, years ago in favour of a rainbow coalition of whinge-bags looking for preferential treatment. But no party ever went out of business by playing on people’s resentment. So however weird Miliband’s personality disorder gets, Labour will always be able to rely on ethnic minorities, feminists, gays, public sector workers and significant numbers of the deluded working class who haven’t got the message from them yet to “Fuck off!”

So despite not winning  the Euros Labour are still polling around 36% even with a special needs leader. So save your tears for Labour. It’s the Conservatives that are staring into the abyss. And from the recent behaviour of their leader it looks as if the abyss is beginning to stare out of them.

In truth Dave’s cunning plan for Conservative hegemony has been a bust since the get go.

In the telling phrase Dave was to be “the heir to Blair”. The Conservatives would win a whole new constituency by lurching to the left. Wind turbines and gay marriage would convince doubters in the centre ground that the Conservative party was nasty no more.

Cameron wasn’t worried about resistance from traditional conservatives. On the contrary he welcomed it. You couldn’t buy better publicity for the brave new Conservative party than courageous Dave facing down reactionary has-beens.  

And, of course, the really good bit was that the disaffected had nowhere to go.

                    

Or so they thought. Enter stage right Ukip.

                                            

But even before Ukip came to dig their grave, Cameron’s work in progress was distinctly pale and ailing. Otherwise how was it that the shiny new brand barely scraped a third of the vote in 2010 in the context of a catastrophically disastrous Labour government led by Dr. Dismal himself, Gordon Brown. Ok Ukip cost the Conservatives 3%; but Dave and George lost the rest of what should have been a landslide-winning margin.

In truth the lurch to the left really had very little to do with electoral calculation. David Cameron is often criticised for “believing in nothing”. That’s a slanderous falsehood. Dave is a man of very deeply held and consistent beliefs. Unfortunately for the Conservatives those principles are mostly progressive. Dave really does dig wind turbines and hoodies, and couldn’t be prouder to be the midwife of gay marriage.

Most conservatives have worked that out by the simple expedient of looking at what he’s done rather than listening to anything  he says.

If further proof is required, cast your mind back to December 2011. Dave was briefly a national hero when he pretended to veto an EU treaty. For the first and last time since the election the Conservatives led in the polls. If Dave had really wanted popularity, he would have continued with the Thatcher routine. But no. Dave got very upset that any of his liberal buddies would really believe it was more than just a sop to the “swivel-eyed loons” and so quickly offered up Britain’s bottom for Barroso’s delectation.

The December 2011 surge in popularity also gives the lie to the idea that a right-wing Conservative party can’t win elections.

As the conventional wisdom has it, if David Cameron keeps his head and sticks to the plan Ukip voters will return to the fold after their tantrum and he’ll win the next election easily against deviant Ed and shifty Nick.

But back in the real world things are very different.

The left of the political spectrum is currently standing room only. Scratch that. The 3 traditional parties are not crowded onto the left, but only on that part of the left which is the obsession of liberal progressives. The rest of the whole spectrum of political tastes is up for grabs. “LibLabCon” is not just a buzzword, it’s an accurate description of the fantastic opportunity that Ukip has to give British politics a detox.

The key to victory for Ukip will be to build on their popularity with right-wingers by taking up the cause of the aspirational working class, despised and abandoned by the Labour Party.

Ukip already does very well with working class voters who are angry with Labour for destroying their communities with mass immigration. After all it’s not middle-class liberals whose children go to schools where English speakers are in a minority.

Ukip could easily build on that with the message that they’re going to slash the cost of energy by binning the turbines and solar panels, and fracking like hell. Not only would that save granny from freezing to death, but it would also bring back manufacturing industry to Britain and with it the realistic chance of a good job.

Ukip should also emphasis root and branch reform of welfare. Many Liberals were shocked by a survey last year that revealed that a majority of poor people are just as annoyed about the abuse of benefits by the idle underclass as many on the right. Obvious really when you remember that they live next to them and work all day for a similar income.

Then last but not least, Ukip should promise to reform the justice system and start dealing the scum that prey on the working class more than anybody else.

And one last crucial ingredient. Bring back something not seen in British politics for generations. Ukip has got to select a cohort of real blunt speaking working class candidates. That will be the stake into the heart of Labour as the representatives of the actually working class. Of course the media class will revile Ukip, misrepresent us and goad us. But get this, they do already. And the clearer they make their smug contempt the more support Ukip will pick up.

Do that and Ukip would have both a coherent program and enough support in the country from both left and right to win a victory.

Workers of the world Ukip. You have nothing to lose but a smug, sanctimonious, delusional, incompetent and overbearing political elite.