Road rules1 min ago
Should Labour Be Concerned?
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Clearly Labour are on their knees at the moment so can UKIP pick up more disaffected Labour voters? Labour Voters in the North are particularly unrepresented at the moment.
Clearly Labour are on their knees at the moment so can UKIP pick up more disaffected Labour voters? Labour Voters in the North are particularly unrepresented at the moment.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.UKIP have always insisted that they are after Labour votes, but in reality they always do better in Conservative constituencies.
Not sure voters, Labour or Conservative, see any future in UKIP. They are grateful that they got us out of the EU, but don't really see the point. UKIP are a one policy party, and that policy has been concluded.
Labour obviously still have a lot of problems in terms of leadership, but its support is pretty solid.
Not sure voters, Labour or Conservative, see any future in UKIP. They are grateful that they got us out of the EU, but don't really see the point. UKIP are a one policy party, and that policy has been concluded.
Labour obviously still have a lot of problems in terms of leadership, but its support is pretty solid.
The policy hasn't been concluded tho has it?
UKIP's chief issue now is that without Farage at the helm they will simply fall apart, regardless of Brexit.
Both the main parties are in serious trouble tho over the aftershock of the referendum: there are serious divisions and with parliamentary scrutiny hopefully applied to the negotiations (best Pte Fraser accent) they'll be exposed!!! Dan Jarvis has called on Labour to accept Brexit and be tougher on immigration. The Corbynites on the left and the freer traders on the right don't like that. So UKIP can still do damage potentially in selected high profile seats if only by taking votes away from one or other or both of these divided parties and causing unpredictability.
If I was Nuttall I'd abandon the idea of UKIP as a national party at elections and target specific seats. That is that they should have done anyway under Farage.
UKIP's chief issue now is that without Farage at the helm they will simply fall apart, regardless of Brexit.
Both the main parties are in serious trouble tho over the aftershock of the referendum: there are serious divisions and with parliamentary scrutiny hopefully applied to the negotiations (best Pte Fraser accent) they'll be exposed!!! Dan Jarvis has called on Labour to accept Brexit and be tougher on immigration. The Corbynites on the left and the freer traders on the right don't like that. So UKIP can still do damage potentially in selected high profile seats if only by taking votes away from one or other or both of these divided parties and causing unpredictability.
If I was Nuttall I'd abandon the idea of UKIP as a national party at elections and target specific seats. That is that they should have done anyway under Farage.
TTT....why should Labour be afraid of Mr Nuttall ?
Like most of UKIP's higher echelons, he started life as a Tory, managing to get a paltry 4.1% of the popular vote in "Bootle" in 2005.
Changing his allegiance to UKIP ready for the 2011 By-Election, he came forth to Labours first, in "Oldham East and Saddleworth", with just 5.8% of the vote.
In 2015, he contested the "Bootle" seat, yet again,( he never learns does he ? ) and managed to achieve his best vote to date, of 10.9%, but failing utterly to get anywhere near Labour total of 74.5% !
At this rate, you and I will be very old men before he gets anywhere in the North West. After all, his mentor, Farage, tried 7 times to get into Parliament and failed every time.
So....not sure why Labour should be wary of Mr Nuttall at all.
Like most of UKIP's higher echelons, he started life as a Tory, managing to get a paltry 4.1% of the popular vote in "Bootle" in 2005.
Changing his allegiance to UKIP ready for the 2011 By-Election, he came forth to Labours first, in "Oldham East and Saddleworth", with just 5.8% of the vote.
In 2015, he contested the "Bootle" seat, yet again,( he never learns does he ? ) and managed to achieve his best vote to date, of 10.9%, but failing utterly to get anywhere near Labour total of 74.5% !
At this rate, you and I will be very old men before he gets anywhere in the North West. After all, his mentor, Farage, tried 7 times to get into Parliament and failed every time.
So....not sure why Labour should be wary of Mr Nuttall at all.
Why would a Labour voter change their allegiance to a party that is even further away from 'Labour Ideals' than the Conservatives are ??
The nearest party in outlook to Labour is the Liberal Democrats, so why not change to them? They have a realistic chance of gaining enough seats to actually affect government which UKIP certainly will not do.
The nearest party in outlook to Labour is the Liberal Democrats, so why not change to them? They have a realistic chance of gaining enough seats to actually affect government which UKIP certainly will not do.