Immigration, Issue Ownership and the Rise of UKIP
Immigration, Issue Ownership and the Rise of UKIP
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移民、发行所有权和英国独立党的崛起
DOI：
10.1093/pa/gsv034
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Dennison J
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作者：
Dennison J
2015年4月2日，在电视直播的领导人辩论中，英国独立党领导人奈杰尔法拉奇用一个问题争辩说，来自英国以外的艾滋病患者应该被排除在获得国民保健服务的治疗之外。法拉奇说：“我们需要做的是为英国人民和家庭提供NHS，他们在许多情况下已经支付了多年的费用。法拉奇的评论是关于辩论时刻的最热门的推文，并在整个竞选活动中吸引了广泛的报道。这一干预突显了英国独立党决定将其核心支持者瞄准选举--主要居住在英格兰的老年人、白色人和工人阶级选民，他们因对移民的焦虑、对英国欧盟成员国身份的反对以及对老牌政党的不满而团结在一起。法拉奇的评论很快被格子西姆鲁的领导人Leanne Wood谴责为“危言耸听”，“危险”和“分裂”。这些都得到了苏格兰民族党领袖尼古拉·斯特金的呼应，尽管工党领袖艾德·米利班德当时什么也没说。然而，有证据表明，一些选民持不同观点。根据YouGov的一项民意调查，受访者引用了法拉奇的话，并询问他们是否同意“来英国生活的人被禁止在NHS接受治疗五年”，50%的人同意，而34%的人不同意法拉奇。3
On 2 April 2015, in the televised leaders’ debate, the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, used a question to argue that HIV patients from outside of the UK should be excluded from accessing NHS treatment.‘What we need to do’, said Farage,‘is to put the NHS there for British people and families, who in many cases have paid into the system for years’. 1 Farage’s comments were the most tweeted about moment of the debate and attracted widespread coverage throughout the campaign. The intervention underlined UKIP’s decision to target its core supporters at the election—older, white and working-class voters, who mainly reside in England, and were united by anxiety over immigration, opposition to Britain’s EU membership and dissatisfaction with the established parties. 2 Farage’s comments were quickly condemned by the leader of Plaid Cymru, Leanne Wood, as ‘scaremongering’,‘dangerous’ and ‘divisive’. These were echoed by the leader of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, although the Labour leader Ed Miliband said nothing at the time. Yet there was evidence to suggest that some voters took a different view. According to one opinion poll by YouGov, which gave respondents Farage’s quotation and asked whether or not they agreed with ‘people coming to live in the UK being banned from receiving treatment on the NHS for a period of five years’, 50% agreed while 34% disagreed with Farage. 3