{"id":12007,"date":"2011-11-10T09:03:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T13:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12007"},"modified":"2012-12-09T12:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:13:31","slug":"delingpoles-word-of-the-day-monotesticularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/10\/delingpoles-word-of-the-day-monotesticularity\/","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole’s word of the day: monotesticularity"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s talking about Nigel Farage<\/a>, leader of the UK Independence Party:<\/p>\n

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\u2018Farage has only got one ball.\u2019 The last time I made reference to the Ukip leader\u2019s monotesticular status, I got a rocket from an outraged reader. But the reader had missed the point entirely. Nigel Farage\u2019s handicap is a strength, not a weakness. He\u2019s open about it, he\u2019s unembarrassed by it and he\u2019s a better man for it. Yes, Farage may have lost a bollock to cancer, but by God he\u2019s got more cojones than almost any Conservative you could name.<\/p>\n

Our Nigel is a Conservative himself, of course. Just one who has been temporarily dispossessed by the mainstream party. When you talk to Farage he\u2019s perfectly upfront about what he considers to be Ukip\u2019s role: to act as the Tory party\u2019s conscience. The moment the Conservatives start behaving like proper Conservatives again — Eurosceptical, small government, low tax, etc — that\u2019ll be it. Most of the 7 per cent of voters who are currently Ukip\u2019s will be straight back into the Tory fold and we\u2019ll have a proper, Thatcherite government again doing the Lord\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Seven per cent! That figure — from the latest YouGov poll — is pretty amazing, isn\u2019t it? It puts Ukip only one point away from the ailing Lib Dems, meaning it\u2019s on track to become Britain\u2019s third largest political party. Yet you\u2019d scarcely be aware of this development, the way it has been ignored by most of our mainstream media.<\/p>\n

Peter Oborne nailed it in a recent Telegraph<\/em> column: \u2018If a left-wing party had reached Ukip\u2019s size and consequence, the media would be fascinated. But, because of its old-fashioned and decidedly provincial approach, it has been practically ignored. In the 2004 European elections, the party gained a sensational 16 per cent of the vote. Had it been the Greens or the communists that had pulled off this feat, the BBC would have gone crazy. Instead it chose not to mention this event, coolly classifying Ukip as \u201cother\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s talking about Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party: \u2018Farage has only got one ball.\u2019 The last time I made reference to the Ukip leader\u2019s monotesticular status, I got a rocket from an outraged reader. But the reader had missed the point entirely. Nigel Farage\u2019s handicap is a strength, not a weakness. He\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,53],"tags":[188,865,101,533],"class_list":["post-12007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-politics","tag-electionwatch","tag-nigelfarage","tag-tv","tag-ukip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-37F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18119,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12007\/revisions\/18119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}