Choose carefully

"Raheem Kassam", Raheem who ? 

His name is not one an Anglophile would normally find in their address book and yet he is the lead candidate for the job of heading UKIP in the future.
UKIPs profile is one of upholding the cause of "little England", of limiting the flow of people who come to here to live, and who see themselves as the voice of the working class who see their jobs under threat from immigrants.
Raheem Kassam hardly chimes with Joe Oakenshaw of Scunthorpe but Joe certainly does chime with UKIPs core voter and so I wonder if UKIP aren't continuing to shoot themselves in the foot.
Raheem I am sure is a perfectly good UKIPa but the label, the brand, is often synonymous with the leader, instance Donald Trump, his overt signs on his equally glitzy buildings tell their own story. Nigel Farage with a pint always nearby signified one aspect of the common man but I would somehow doubt, in such an immigrant conscious party, that a person called Kassam signals the right message.
Of course this is all "politically incorrect conjecture" and with the verve that the PC lobby have, maybe it's a question which will never be asked, (over the airwaves anyway).
It's an age of so many questions, questions about questions.
Organisations make fortunes out of profiling everything with questions, they make it their business to enquire into all the nooks and crannies, not as a good housewife, cleaning her house to root out the dirt but rather to find the dirt to use in some campaign.
This information and counter information is very confusing when trying to make up your mind as to the efficacy of something, or someone.
We know that Kassam is a journalist and can be described as having political views of the far right. He has history, "tweeting" some extremely disparaging messages, using language reminiscent of his alter ego Donald, about Nicola Sturgeon and Suzanne Evans
Is he part of Europe's tilt to the right, with parties becoming more aggressive as they seek to coalesce the disenfranchised underbelly in each nation. Is this part of the rise of a new phase of fascism within each disgruntled society, the sort of authoritarian leadership which piggybacked the German nations misery after the First World War.
It doesn't take much for political causes to become national ones and we have to beware the leaders we chose if they are inclined to sharp elbowed, rough unhelpful rhetoric when purporting to have the characteristics of leadership.