by Narrator » Wed May 17, 2017 3:11 pm
She mostly finds what you'd expect on this kind of topic on the internet. Horrible racism and general awfulness, especially directed towards humans. And then the party's official stance of trying to put a nice coat of paint over the horribleness. Which seems to be at least the immediately obvious reason as to why they tried to get the PM to make an appearance, trying to legitimize the whole thing in the eyes of the public. Digging deeper more articles pop up, Farage apparently having made bit of a hubbub about the whole thing in parliament and, in an odd showing of letting up on partisanship, pushed for the PM to meet with the heads of all of the other parties at their respective conventions, which seemed to be how he managed to get him to agree to the whole thing in the first place. And in an odd bit of timing, the next day UKIP moved the date of their convention a couple days up to be the first of the various parties to hold theirs