U K I P Top British Polls

[ChillDoubt]

http://news.sky.com/story/1268952/european-elections-ukip-top-british-polls

Time for a lot of people to wake up and smell what they've been shovelling for the last 12 months.

[ChillDoubt]

Indeed not divebuddy. Imagine them taking the ribbing that Farage does on HIGNFY, and all with good grace and humour too.

[jeffa]

South East:

UKIP 4
Con 3
Labour 1
Green 1
Lib Dems 1

[jim360]

No wipe-out for the Liberal Democrats, then.

[ChillDoubt]

Worrying times in France, from the blog:

Socialist French President Francois Hollande is to hold an emergency cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss the results. Marine Le Pen's 25% score is beyond even her expectations and she looks set for between 23 and 25 seats in the European Parliament. In the last parliament, the National Front had just three.

[ChillDoubt]

Farage victory speech

Nigel Farage describes UKIP's performance as "the most extraordinary result in British politics for 100 years". He says taking votes in Labour heartlands in the North and its showing in Wales and Scotland shows the party is "genuinely a UK Independence Party". He uses his victory speech to announce: "I promise you this - you haven't heard the last of us."
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Take notice of polls at your peril, it's results that actually count.

[Orderlimit]

I agree divebuddy. Mr Farage has had a hard time and pulled it off. Seems a lot of attacks went unreported particularly from thuggish groups like the absurdly named unite Against Fascism etc.

[jeffa]

LOL! Tim Farron says he's "dead proud" of Nick Clegg.

Bless... :-)

[ChillDoubt]

Martin Tod (Lib Dem) tells Beaker...sorry, Danny Alexander (also Lib Dem) that whatever the strategy was it was a disaster and that it needs to change, even though Alexander was 'proud of the campaign they fought'.

He reminds me of this quote:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

[ChillDoubt]

BBC correspondent in Edinburgh pretty much confirms UKIP MEP for Scotland.
Salmond will be kicking the cat....or haggis.

[jeffa]

He will indeed, having wanted to "squeeze them out" of Scottish politics.

[ChillDoubt]

Expansion on earlier post:


Call for Clegg to go

Martin Tod, Lib Dem parliamentary candidate in Winchester, has called for Nick Clegg to go. He said the local party had left Mr Clegg's name off campaign literature due to his unpopularity. "To say that all we need to do is to carry on as we do as a party is inadequate," said Mr Tod. "The voters have sent us a message - they're not prepared to listen to our leader and that's a really serious problem and that's a problem we need to address."

[Orderlimit]

BBC - Judge Ed Miliband on what he's done - Harriet Harman. She added that the Labour leader was "in touch with people's concerns"

I think he is being judged on what he has 'done'.

[ChillDoubt]

Conservative MP Adam Afriyie says his party has to be more "welcoming and warm" to UKIP supporters, who are "our natural voters".
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Some of them are STILL not getting it, are they?

[jeffa]

A year ago, the notion that UKIP could win a seat in the 2015 general election would have been treated as ludicrous.

Now, Tory MPs and MEPs are talking of not fielding candidates next year in constituencies where UKIP support is strong enough to make a Conservative victory a near impossibility.

Wake up, people!

[ChillDoubt]

LOL, Just laughing at Jeremy Vine who corrected himself. He was talking about the EU Parliament and mentioned the Liberal Democrats. He quickly corrected it to Democrat(singular)!

[jeffa]

London:

Labour 4
Con 2
UKIP
Green 1

That's more like it! Well done, cor blimey!

[ChillDoubt]

Votes-wise, 3rd in Londonistan is as well as can be expected for UKIP.
The London figures aside, the Lib Dems didn't even poll a million votes countrywide.

[ChillDoubt]

This sums it up rather succinctly:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27572694

That's impressive by anyones standards.

[Gromit]

UKiP win a seat in London.