Posted on 05/07/2016 4:06:46 PM PDT by Lorianne
UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed "breakthroughs" following a series of gains made by his party during the UK-wide local and assembly elections.
After 113 results out of 124 councils, UKIP has 55 seats so far, a gain of 26.
It won six seats on Thurrock Council and just missed out on being the largest party by a single vote.
Ex-Tory MPs Neil Hamilton and Mark Reckless were among seven gains on the Welsh Assembly, and UKIP came second in two Westminster by-elections.
It was beaten by Labour in Ogmore, in South Wales, and Sheffield Brightside in South Yorkshire.
But it gained two seats on the London Assembly, for David Kurten and mayoral candidate Peter Whittle, from the London-wide top-up list, where it came fourth with 171,069 votes, its best performance in London for some years.
Mr Farage told Sky his party was "really biting hard" into Labour's vote and was "the third biggest party now in the United Kingdom by a country mile".
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Thank you President Obama
At the same time, Londoners elect a Moslem mayor, in the hopes of avoiding a Paris-style or Brussels-style terrorist attack. If they had only thought of this in 1939 — they could have elected a Nazi mayor and avoided the Blitz.
Liberals have no grasp of their own stupidity.
Don’t worry, New York survived Dinkins and then got a Giuliani. London will survive this, then maybe go full UKIP.
Mr Farage told Sky his party was "really biting hard" into Labour's vote and was "the third biggest party now in the United Kingdom by a country mile".Farage likes Trump, Trump likes Farage, both support Brexit.
But now it’s got a DeBlasio.
True. But why cut your fingernails? They’ll just grow back.
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