The establishment have thrown everything at this guy and he's come through it all.
A rare bit of good news.
There was a thread a week or so ago that indicated the liberal Labor party was leading in the polls.
Is this report (hopefully) that UKIP is leading more accurate?
Hope he can be Prime Minister. He would give the Euroweinies fits.
Would his win be equivalent to a Republican Presidency?
If you listen to the Daily Mail you would think that he was 90 points behind and broiled in all manner of scandals.
Sigh. I wonder how many Americans have ever met with their representative?
I look forward to his interview on Cavuto show after he wins
I love the man
No seat projection I’ve seen has UKIP winning more than 6 seats. One article I read said the party hopes to win....22
I hope he has a proper security detail
Nigel is doing well and they are starting to get scared using fear, the only weapon the political and business elites have left.
HSBC is threatening to move its headquarters out of the UK.
Go UKIP!
Third party running against the failure of the main parties. He unapologetically tells the truth.
Room for that here too.
All of the MSM projections were giving UKIP no seats
I heard the media narrative is that UKIP gets no seats at all in their projections and that its to be a 272-272 Von-Lab split with LDP making up the difference
There ya go. People can say what they want about TV ads and microtargeting for voters and whatever else, but at the end of the day, the candidate who makes the effort to actually *connect* with voters is the one they will prefer.
Jolly good! I can’t wait to hear him at Question Time.
NICE.
Mmm...I hope so, but the problem with surveys like this, particularly ones you commission yourself, is that there is always a built-in bias to the answers that you want to hear.
This is why you hear politicians who are challenged on certain issues sometimes replying with “well the feedback I’m getting on the doorstep doesn’t say that at all”. They’re telling the truth, but it is a fundamental fact of Human psychology that there is a big difference between what people SAY they believe, and what they ACTUALLY will do.
Don’t get me wrong - I think Farage will win Thanet South, but I think its going to be quite close. The problem in getting that elusive breakthrough is that all too much of the voting decisions in the UK (and probably everywhere else as well) is essentially tribal in nature, and that’s very difficult to break down.
I was talking with Alan Piper (UKIP parliamentary candidate for Westmorland and Lonsdale) and he summed it up very well. Getting votes for UKIP (and probably any newer political party actually) is a bit like trying to persuade people to give up smoking. They want change, and they know its good for them, and they know its the right thing to do, but when the chips are down so many folk just can’t bring themselves to break the habit of a lifetime.