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• Bellinghman commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  The murder of three PKK activists in Paris last Thursday would indicate that things are still bubbling under there. The Turkish government denies involvement, but the Deep State/Grey Wolves/etc. groups in that country make for a plausible scenario that it was a deniable operation. As for UKIP, they leave a very nasty taste in my mouth. At least the BNP and EDL have such obviously repulsive thugs as leaders....
• danieldwilliam commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  I can not decide if UKIP are a libertarian party putting on the trappings of a no nonsense common sense populist right wing party for electoral purposes or the other way round. Either way, personally, they would never attract my vote but I’d very much like it if they won a significant number of seats in the future....
• Bellinghman commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  I would not. There's a nasty streak of homophobia running through that party alongside its xenophobia. And on the basis of 'by their friends shall you know them', their alliance with the most right-wing populist parties in the EU is disturbing....
• anonemouse commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  You're right, but behind the times, apparently (that article was posted last July). This means there's Kurdish autonomous zones in Iraq and Syria, and so Turkey is deeply worried - worried enouugh to reopen talks with the PKK, it seems....
• danieldwilliam commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  I can see why you would not want UKIP to win many seats and I don’t disagree with your assessement of their views on sexuality at all. Which is one of the reasons I’d like them to win some seats. I’d like that sort of thing out in the open. And I’d like an opportunity for that sort of thinking to evaporate from parties that are likely to be leading centre right coallition governments in the UK and coalese in a minority party where I think it can be contained better. I’d actually quite like a party to run on...