Quizzes & Puzzles1 min ago
Anti-Ukip Campaign Good For Ukip?
Everyday we see stories in our newspapers attacking UKiP and Farage. These stories from papers supporting the Conservatives and Labour are designed to put voters off them, but there is evidence it is having the opposite effect.
// Farage attacks backfire on Labour and Tories //
// Labour and Tory polling is showing that attacks claiming Nigel Farage is a racist have backfired since voters do not regard him as such and see the assaults as a sign that the political establishment are ganging up to undermine him.
The apparent backlash is coming to both parties from telephone polling and focus groups, which say that the attacks have raised Farage's profile and confirmed him as the anti-establishment candidate. It does not tally with published opinion polls that show the Ukip lead in the European elections narrowing slightly. //
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Do you agree the establishments' campaign backfire?
// Farage attacks backfire on Labour and Tories //
// Labour and Tory polling is showing that attacks claiming Nigel Farage is a racist have backfired since voters do not regard him as such and see the assaults as a sign that the political establishment are ganging up to undermine him.
The apparent backlash is coming to both parties from telephone polling and focus groups, which say that the attacks have raised Farage's profile and confirmed him as the anti-establishment candidate. It does not tally with published opinion polls that show the Ukip lead in the European elections narrowing slightly. //
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Do you agree the establishments' campaign backfire?
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Incidentally, I have warned about this very thing in a couple of my recent posts about UKiP....
// I am convinced that the apparent bullying that UKiP and Farage are currently receiving will not go down well with voters. They see an underdog and will vote sympathetically. //
// The whole anti UKiP barRage at the moment could back fire. People can see they are being unfairly picked on by all sides (because they are worried) and that might persuade them to vote for UKiP instead of putting them off. //
// I am convinced that the apparent bullying that UKiP and Farage are currently receiving will not go down well with voters. They see an underdog and will vote sympathetically. //
// The whole anti UKiP barRage at the moment could back fire. People can see they are being unfairly picked on by all sides (because they are worried) and that might persuade them to vote for UKiP instead of putting them off. //
If the actual parties appear to unite to "gang up on" Farage, as they appeared to recently, then that may be counterproductive.
However stories in the press, whatever inspires them, are justified.
If they backfire, tough. Part of the profile of the UKIP voter may be the dogged, "anti-establishment", "let them say what they like I don't care" attitude, but eventually it will have an effect. I simply don't accept the idea touted last night that "any publicity is good publicity". UKIP isn't brand of toothpaste, after all, even if they'd like to get Britain "whiter than white" really
And in any case, yesterday's Croydon debacle for the party is just a cracking good read it would be criminal not to print it :-)
However stories in the press, whatever inspires them, are justified.
If they backfire, tough. Part of the profile of the UKIP voter may be the dogged, "anti-establishment", "let them say what they like I don't care" attitude, but eventually it will have an effect. I simply don't accept the idea touted last night that "any publicity is good publicity". UKIP isn't brand of toothpaste, after all, even if they'd like to get Britain "whiter than white" really
And in any case, yesterday's Croydon debacle for the party is just a cracking good read it would be criminal not to print it :-)
quite honestly i have given my vote to UKIP, as i am heartily sick of the main parties, it may be worthless, an empty gesture, but i am considering doing the same in the General election, am seriously effed off with what is happening to this country, it may also be a wasted vote, indeed allow that feeble excuse for a politician Ed Milliband to become PM, but that is how i feel
No. The Far Right need to be combated in whatever form that is appropriate.
And I can see no evidence that support for |UKIP is on the rise :::
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As you can see, UKIP have been stuck on about 13%-15% for a long time now. In other words, 83%-85% of people polled don't support UKIP.
And I can see no evidence that support for |UKIP is on the rise :::
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As you can see, UKIP have been stuck on about 13%-15% for a long time now. In other words, 83%-85% of people polled don't support UKIP.
do you not read what i have written, i am not a supporter of any of them,
at an absolute pinch my vote would go to Tory party, but they have proved themselves to be just as ineffectual as the rest of the fools in politics.
as to giving the electorate a referendum, there isn't a cats hell in chance of that coming about, its unlikely Cameron will be PM come 2017, and even if he miraculously like Jesus rises from the dead, will he keep his promise, no he won't.
at an absolute pinch my vote would go to Tory party, but they have proved themselves to be just as ineffectual as the rest of the fools in politics.
as to giving the electorate a referendum, there isn't a cats hell in chance of that coming about, its unlikely Cameron will be PM come 2017, and even if he miraculously like Jesus rises from the dead, will he keep his promise, no he won't.
Mikey, you talk about the rise of the far right and how that must be opposed, but have you asked yourself why it’s happening? If it’s such a threat then one would assume that a great number of people support those views – but why - and why, in a democracy, should their views not be given serious consideration?
Listening to everyday chit-chat in work and amongst friends it's obvious that the electorate have become disillusioned wiht the status quo and utter duplicity of the 'main' parties.
The indigenous peoples of these isles have come to a point where they DO feel threatened by the percieved ever increasing number of immigrants and they frankly want something done to stem the tide.
Several of my friends often point out that they rarely hear the English language in the supermarket etc, more often than not it's Polish or Portuguese, and it appears to them to be on the rise.
The indigenous peoples of these isles have come to a point where they DO feel threatened by the percieved ever increasing number of immigrants and they frankly want something done to stem the tide.
Several of my friends often point out that they rarely hear the English language in the supermarket etc, more often than not it's Polish or Portuguese, and it appears to them to be on the rise.
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