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Local Election Results
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..are just starting to come in with Labour holding South Shields, UKIP second. Media suggest Dodgy Dave is in for a spanking and oh dear, the voting caption on Sky News a moment ago showed that the BNP got twice as many votes as the Lib Dems.
UKIP are widely predicted to make huge inroads, with suggestions that they are no longer the recipients of 'protest votes'.
UKIP are widely predicted to make huge inroads, with suggestions that they are no longer the recipients of 'protest votes'.
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i think that the coalition are largely to blame for this, their constant u turns, and broken promises on many issues, not to mention an economy in the doldrums has cause this swing, that UKIP say what many people want to hear, populist and popular.
05:52 Fri 03rd May 2013
Well ladies and gents, all the results are now pretty much in (awaiting 2 as I type) and as they say in football parlance, the table doesn't lie.
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So much for UKIP being the 'protest vote' party. If that's the case the voters in England are protesting at the way Dodgy Dave and Naughty Nick are overseeing matters and the Tories in particular must wake up and smell what they've been shovelling in the last few days prior to this extraordinary result.
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So much for UKIP being the 'protest vote' party. If that's the case the voters in England are protesting at the way Dodgy Dave and Naughty Nick are overseeing matters and the Tories in particular must wake up and smell what they've been shovelling in the last few days prior to this extraordinary result.
In any case that's a dodgy extrapolation to the electorate as a whole. While 93% of people may not have voted UKIP, that figure is being skewed by all those people who did not vote at all. One could equally well say that well over 95% of people didn't bother to vote LibDem, or of order 90% not caring enough about the Conservatives to vote.
Come the election in 2015, it's entirely possible that the UKIP vote could be just as substantial, and even lead to seats. The massive gains UKIP made this week were from almost a standing start, after all.
The next two years gives UKIP a chance to show that it can be a party just as serious as any other -- or perhaps, crumble under scrutiny. Time only will tell, but certainly you would be foolhardy to write UKIP off.
Come the election in 2015, it's entirely possible that the UKIP vote could be just as substantial, and even lead to seats. The massive gains UKIP made this week were from almost a standing start, after all.
The next two years gives UKIP a chance to show that it can be a party just as serious as any other -- or perhaps, crumble under scrutiny. Time only will tell, but certainly you would be foolhardy to write UKIP off.
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