Farage Will Do A Deal Withe The Devil Apparently !

[mikey4444]

Its official now....Farage really WILL do a deal with the Devil....straight from the horses mouth !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30148121

[ichkeria]

Sorry mikey which of Farage's "devils" are you talking about?
He has a few :-)

[BlackadderV]

It's merely a turn of phrase, for God's sake. Are you telling me that Labour wouldn't do the same if it kept the Tories out of power?

[Sqad]

mikey....I agree....but it would have to be a centre or right of centre "devil."

That let's out Labour.

[ichkeria]

Sorry I didn't see the audio link.
Farage could only "do a deal" party that had the most seats, so it would not be a question of keeping someone else out of power.
Mind you the party in question would need to be awfully close to the winning line in the first place :-) And it would probably have to be Labour

[mikey4444]

Of course Sqad, but we live in strange times ! There is growing evidence that LibDems and even Labour supporters voted Tory yesterday, in an attempt to keep UKIP out of Rochester. As a lifelong Labour supporter, I might have to vote Tory as well, if I lived in the place. But I probably wouldn't, as more UKIP MPs taken from Tory MPs just makes next years victory by Labour more probably.

I now await eagerly for more Tory MPs to fall on their swords for Mr Farage.

[BlackadderV]

Have you a link to this 'evidence'?

[BlackadderV]

The Mummy Returns! Tremble!

[Sqad]

\\\\There is growing evidence that LibDems and even Labour supporters voted Tory yesterday, in an attempt to keep UKIP out of Rochester. \\\

If that was so, then they didn't do a very good job of it.
My amateur analysis was that the UKIP gained from both Labour and Conservative basically equally.

[mikey4444]

Blackadder...thought you would never ask !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30152290

[mikey4444]

Sqad...not sure how anybody can say for sure who voted for what, without actually asking them as they left the ballot box.

[BlackadderV]

I don't call that evidence, given the source, I call it spin, rather like Salmond saying ''no'' really means ''not yet.''

[mikey4444]

Sorry Blackadder...best I can do I'm afraid !

[Sqad]

mikey.......as an amateur,if you added the Labour negative swing to the Conservative negative swing it added up almost exactly to the UKIP gains.

just a thought.

[mikey4444]

Could be Sqad...could be, but we will never know for sure. The Lib Dems also lost 15.5% of their vote as well.

[BlackadderV]

.. and if you add up the UKIP and Tory percentages you approach the 77% mark.

[Sqad]

In a nutshell mikey....a good day for UKIP and a depressing day for Labour and Conservatives.

On we go into the political unknown.

[BlackadderV]

//....a good day for UKIP and a depressing day for Labour and Conservatives. //

You forgot to mention the Libs. Slightly more than depressed, I would say, but then I'm no physician.

[mikey4444]

BA...all that calculation tells us is that most of voters in Rochester are right wing...hardly a secret is it ?

Never mind. Dave is "absolutely determined" apparently, to win the seat back next May. What a pity that he lost in the first place though. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde ::::

“To lose one by election may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.”

[Sqad]

LOL^^^^....neither am I.