Britain's Populist UKIP Party on Track to Pull Off a Major Upset in Labour Stronghold

PJ Media ^ | 01-25-2017 | Michael van der Galien

[Michael van der Galien]

The future is looking bright for Britain's populist and patriotic U.K. Independence Party. According to a new poll, the party's new leader -- Paul Nuttall -- is on track to win the by-election in Stoke Central on February 23. That's significant because Stoke is one of Britain's most important Labour strongholds. If the socialists lose their parliamentary seat to UKIP, it's a sure sign that a populist revolution is coming in the next national elections.

According to the poll, Nuttall is currently enjoying a ten-point lead over his competitor from the Labour Party.

The by-election is set to take place on 23 February after leading moderate Tristram Hunt quit to become director of the V&A museum.

Despite being a very close third in the general election in 2017 the Tories are lagging behind on 10 per cent.

Stoke had one of the strongest Leave votes in the referendum with almost 70 per cent of voters backing Brexit.

One of the main reasons for Nuttall's (and UKIP's) rise is Labour's opposition to Brexit. Stoke Central traditionally votes for Labour, but 70 percent of its constituents voted for Brexit in last year's referendum. Labour, of course, was campaigning for continued EU membership.

Mr Nuttall, who took over from Nigel Farage as Ukip leader in November, has said he wants to turn it “into the patriotic party of the working class”.

According to the poll 30 per cent of the Stoke Central voters who indicated ‘Don’t Know’ for the upcoming byelection previously voted Labour while 10 per cent voted UKIP and 46 per cent for the Lib Dems.

Meanwhile 81 per cent who intend to vote Ukip are former Labour voters.

Let that sink in: 81 percent of UKIP voters in Stoke are former Labour voters.

[Nextrush]

Good for UKIP.....

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

The western revolution against globalism and the hypocrisy of the liberal establishment continues...

[fortheDeclaration]

That would be great!

[littleharbour]

Blue collar workers everywhere are waking up to the fact that they’ve been sacrificed to the globalist gods of radical environmentalism, feminism, “diversity”, open borders, and cheap labour. If Labour gets cannibalized by UKIP it could cease to exist as a party.

[protest1]

I will believe it when I see it. I am sure the hate campaign by all the major political parties and all the media will start soon. It will suddenly be discovered that he is actually the third most evil man in all recorded history after Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Being much, much worse that genocidal maniacs like Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Idi Amin etc.

Or am I being to cynical?

[Little Ray]

I think you are right on target.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yes, the Labor Party doesn’t represent it’s member’s and is betraying them on the altar of globalism.