Today’s Libertas e-mail states “we rolled out a video that’s flying around the blogosphere” – well 324 views is not exactly flying, and that’s how many people have seen the video as I write. You can view it below. My own anti-UKIP effort is doing better at the moment, with more than 2000 views.
Basically, in its amateur way, Libertas is trying to jump on the coat tails of the anti-politics sentiment that is brewing in the UK, duck islands and all. With the 3 major parties taking a hit in the polls, outsiders like UKIP and the BNP are hoovering up support, and Libertas wants some of it too. Hence their video to have a go at UKIP for troughing it in Brussels as much as everyone else has done in Westminster.
There are 2 problems for Libertas here. First of all no-one actually judges UKIP on their record. If you believe the EU is a conspiracy then you will vote for them anyway. That’s why they will do well. Secondly, the yes-but line about the EU that Libertas is trying to sell doesn’t easily work in UK politics – why not go for the out-and-out radicals, rather than an Irish chap that people don’t necessarily trust either?
Jon Worth. European, social democrat, federalist, feminist, atheist, anti-monarchist, ENTJ. Inline skater. Blogger, website designer, avid Mac user, trainer.
“324 views is not exactly flying”
As a rough guess 124 of those are us in the UKIP press office giggling at them. The other 200 are the Libertas guys giggling to themselves over how clever they’ve been.
At least Tim thinks that we have more people in the press office than UKIP
At the time of writing it is on 2,950 views and rising.
I am going to see if I can make it to 5000 before Eastenders…