According to David Aaronovitch writing in The Times, (Nigel) Farage of UKIP is shorthand for those in the UK, including around a third of Tories, who want separation from the EU; (Alex) Salmond of the SNP is a figurehead for those in Scotland who want separation from the UK. The writer finds it increasingly hard not to see the similarities in their arguments: <\/p>\n
– The UK (Scotland) has been diminished by its association with, or absorption into, a larger grouping represented by \u00ab\u00a0Brussels\u00a0\u00bb (\u00ab\u00a0Westminster\u00a0\u00bb) that rule and rule badly. <\/p>\n
– The people of the UK (Scotland) did not vote for Jose Manuel Barroso (David Cameron). <\/p>\n
– UKIP praises Switzerland as a model non-EU country while the SNP\/Scottish manifesto mentioned Norway 57 times and that \u00ab\u00a0small, independent nations of comparable size to Scotland are the world’s happiest.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n
– Both camps share a common language of complacent and ill-founded reassurance: It will be alright. They’re just bluffing. Britain (Scotland) is too important to the EU (UK) for them not to allow us to separate on our terms.<\/p>\n
Reference<\/strong>: Farage and Salmond want you to live in Outopia, David Aaronovitch, The Times, Thursday April 17, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to David Aaronovitch writing in The Times, (Nigel) Farage of UKIP is shorthand for those in the UK, including around a third of Tories, who want separation from the EU; (Alex) Salmond of the SNP is a figurehead for those in Scotland who want separation from the UK. The writer finds it increasingly hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,213,203,123,214,147,152],"tags":[171,205,372,216,215],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farage-to-join-conservatives","category-menzies-campbell-no-to-independence","category-scottish-independence","category-scottish-referendum","category-similar-arguments-ukip-snp","category-what-about-ukip","category-what-to-do-about-ukip","tag-conservative-party","tag-eurosceptics","tag-scottish-independence","tag-snp","tag-ukip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conservatives-paris.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}