{"id":47454,"date":"2016-06-08T23:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T23:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47454"},"modified":"2016-08-01T15:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T15:03:20","slug":"report-from-the-york-union-stephen-woolfe-mep-the-futures-of-britain-and-ukip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47454","title":{"rendered":"Report from The York Union: Stephen Woolfe MEP: The Futures of Britain and UKIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyorker.co.uk\/comment-and-politics\/politics\/report-york-union-stephen-woolfe-mep-futures-britain-ukip\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Report from The York Union: Stephen Woolfe MEP: The Futures of Britain and UKIP<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyorker.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Yorker<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-07<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:editor@theyorker.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jack Harvey<\/strong><\/a>, Editor\/Editorial Director<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyorker.co.uk\/comment-and-politics\/politics\/report-york-union-stephen-woolfe-mep-futures-britain-ukip\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theyorker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UKIP4022-UKIP-Northwest-ukipnew.org_.uk_.jpg?zoom=2&amp;fit=820%2C535\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo credit: James Hostford<\/small><\/p>\n<p><em>For some voters, a mixed-race candidate for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Independence_Party\" target=\"_blank\">UKIP<\/a> doesn\u2019t quite add up. \u201cUKIP? But they\u2019re against immigrants, aren\u2019t they?\u201d one might say. This is not true, says <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Woolfe\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Woolfe<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Member_of_the_European_Parliament\" target=\"_blank\">MEP<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_West_England_(European_Parliament_constituency)\" target=\"_blank\">North West England<\/a> and the party spokesman for Economic Affairs and Migration. UKIP is not against immigration nor the immigrants themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manchester\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester<\/a> in 1967, Stephen Woolfe comes from a working-class family. When his parents\u2019 relationship ended, he and his siblings were taken to live with his grandmother until his family could acquire a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_house\" target=\"_blank\">council house<\/a>. The family slept in a single room and as a child Woolfe was washed in the kitchen sink. His mother worked in a biscuit factory, cleaned the local bookmaker\u2019s and manned a shoe shop all at once to make ends meet. By his own admission, Woolfe didn\u2019t have much, but his family ensured that he came away from his childhood in the possession of two distinct things: a determination to work hard and an education. \u201cI was always being given books. We read; my mum would read to me at night.\u201d Woolfe secured a scholarship at an independent school, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St_Bede%27s_College,_Manchester\" target=\"_blank\">St. Bede\u2019s College<\/a> and went on to study Law at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aberystwyth_University\" target=\"_blank\">Aberystwyth University<\/a>. From his youth, Woolfe learned the value of hard work and the possibility to better oneself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyorker.co.uk\/comment-and-politics\/politics\/report-york-union-stephen-woolfe-mep-futures-britain-ukip\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report from The York Union: Stephen Woolfe MEP: The Futures of Britain and UKIP The Yorker 2016-06-07 Jack Harvey, Editor\/Editorial Director Photo credit: James Hostford For some voters, a mixed-race candidate for UKIP doesn\u2019t quite add up. \u201cUKIP? But they\u2019re against immigrants, aren\u2019t they?\u201d one might say. This is not true, says Stephen Woolfe, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,10],"tags":[81,24017,24018,24021,24020,24019,24016],"class_list":["post-47454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-england","tag-jack-harvey","tag-stephen-woolfe","tag-the-yorker","tag-uk-independence-party","tag-ukip","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47455,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47454\/revisions\/47455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}