How old fashioned?
Like back when it was acceptable to ridicule people because of their race?
Or when it was acceptable to have a golliwog on marmalade jars?
Or when it was acceptable to promote segregation or slavery?
He's not old fashioned he's just racist - him and most of his party. They try and dress it up as something else in order to sound palatable to the general public but that doesn't change what they are.
I believe a few of the candidates have said things that have been unacceptable. But then I would not dismiss lowly educated working class peoples views just because they have not expressed themselves well. Rather I would look to see if any of their fears were justified and then look to educate them in the correct way to express their concerns. Someone who is not able to express themselves as the rest of us would like does not mean that everything they say or do is wrong. They still deserve listening to and their views to be questioned but only on the basis of the view not how they express it.
So if someone has concerns over immigration(which for me is the least reason to consider voting UKIP) but they express it in a poorly worded way, we should still look at whether they view that immigration has caused problems and not just dismiss them out of hand because they did not express themselves as well as we would have liked.
No I consider Farage old fashioned because he does not seem to care about spin and does not appear to try to win voters over by sitting down at the start of the day and seeing what is in the news and shaping his press conferences on that. He talks about issues with less guff then the others even if you do not agree with his views.
For me coming from a working class and trades background I can see that mass immigration has been a problem so a points based system would seem sensible, what lets UKIP down is not knowing how that policy would work which is why I would mark them out as another Liberal party type of party.
I do not agree with their policies for defence which I find very old fashioned even if I do have now some concerns with Russia and how she is behaving towards people in latvia.
I do not agree with their views on gay marriage(I am all for it and found myself agreeing with Tatchell that the pension reforms were homophobic) I do not agree with their views on wind turbines even if I share the desire to not be dependant on Russian gas.
Their policies on Grammar schools is to be applauded in my view, they desire to attract only the best and brightest immigrants is also to be applauded because we have more then enough of our own underclass that can do low skilled jobs. I do not care if the underclass do not want to do them, they have had it to easy for to long and with proper reform of the benefit system they would be forced to work.
We have seen how when the tories forced long term "sick" to be tested those figures dropped. I imagine the underclass would kick off and moan about being forced into work but after time would accept it.
Segregation and slavery are obviously wrong that really goes without saying, but in their own way both Labour and the tories have promoted segregation through a multicultural dogma that led to sections of our society not wanting to integrate. Every time we have a home grown terror issue I blame Labour for it, because in my opinion it was a massive falling of Labour to promote multiculturalism over integration.
It is right that Muslims for example should be able to have time off from their workplaces to celebrate their festivals, but the ideology of the country should not have been to pander to different religions and views, except them and allow them for sure. But also to point out and maintain this is a Christian country where by tolerance is the order of the day.
No I do not think UKIP are racist even if some of their supporters use words and say thing in an unconstructed way that most of us would not I would also not dismiss their fears out of hand.
