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UKIP leader Nigel Farage fails to win seat
ft.com ^ | May 8, 2015 | ft

Posted on 05/08/2015 2:37:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Slouching towards dhimmitude.


41 posted on 05/08/2015 4:27:27 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Fai Mao

Didn’t Cameron promise that before and “forget” to follow through?


42 posted on 05/08/2015 4:29:40 AM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Miliband ‘sorry’ for losses in Scotland (0:46)
43 posted on 05/08/2015 4:32:25 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Conservatives secure overall majority in historic election
44 posted on 05/08/2015 4:38:23 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper
David Cameron [twitter]
45 posted on 05/08/2015 4:41:58 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: rarestia

Only parts of Britain are a combination of Pakistan and Nigeria. Another five years of “Conservative” government and even more of Britain will be.


46 posted on 05/08/2015 4:43:09 AM PDT by Ultima
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To: the scotsman

Britain is only 87% “white” and that includes white people who aren’t native to Britain. That 87% is going to continue to drop rapidly.


47 posted on 05/08/2015 4:45:59 AM PDT by Ultima
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To: dp0622
I don’t understand a word of what’s going on.

The Labour Party is the homo-loving pro-muslim party. The Conservative Party is the other homo-loving pro-muslim party. The Conservative Party won.

48 posted on 05/08/2015 5:18:30 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Impy

How many seats needed for majority?


49 posted on 05/08/2015 6:25:29 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: Impy; dp0622; SunkenCiv
UKIP's showing is only a minor disaster. They have a lot of voters and may, I say may, have some effect in keeping the Conservatives in a better line of country..

The inspiring news:
In Britain, failed politicians still have the grace to resign, rather than continue to inflict themselves on their party members.

The really bad news:
The WOGs vote, and pandering to them shamelessly as Cameron did, can now get one elected in Britannostan, where the dulcet tones of Evensong are being replaced by the unholy shrieking of the muezzin.

The real score:
Political Correctness: 1
Farage: Nil

50 posted on 05/08/2015 6:27:00 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Hi! We're having a constitutional crisis. Come on over!)
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To: Ultima

We are only 76% in US


51 posted on 05/08/2015 6:42:47 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: CPT Clay

326


52 posted on 05/08/2015 6:43:38 AM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: CPT Clay; SunkenCiv; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; Fai Mao

There are 650 seats so 326

In reality slightly less because Sinn Fein (commie Irish terrorists) refuses to show up and take their seats because they would have to tacitly accept the Queen’s authority.

The Tories are at 331 seats (I think including the Speaker who doesn’t really count) the last seat just declared (St Ives, their seats have names which is something I always liked). It’s always the last to declare because they have to fly some votes in from some islands. It was a Tory gain from the Lib Dems. They stand at a mere 8 seats.

Funniest result from the election

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/russell-brand-resigns-politics-gives-5661206

Hahahah, FU Russell Brand

Some quasi-suicidal tweets from the lefties. They seem to think Cameron will “murder the poor” and stuff like that. They use the word “selfish” a lot.

Not for nothing I’ve noticed the Tories + UKIP + the 2 Northern Irish Unionist Parties (UUP and DUP) got a combined 50.5% of the total popular vote. I can’t tell you the last time the right of center parties won a majority of the popular vote.

Checking, some very close calls in the 50’s but I think it was 1935, when the Tories and their Liberal National allies got a combined 51.5%. This is of symbolic importance, to me at least. And yes UKIP did help make that possible. This first time there’s been a major right of center vote outside of the Tories.


53 posted on 05/08/2015 7:45:24 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

“Farange”

Its Farage and the UKIP party continues to rise every year. They are the number 3 party in the UK. Nigel will take the summer off to fish and likely be back in the Fall to lead the party again. They are far from doomed.


54 posted on 05/08/2015 8:15:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

If you want the party to succeed you should hope they choose a new, better leader.


55 posted on 05/08/2015 8:34:31 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Vaquero

There is no difference between today’s Conservative Party and the Tony Blair-era Labour Party.


56 posted on 05/08/2015 8:36:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Impy

I’m Irish Catholic I don’t care if the Brits live or die. I just like Nigel Farage. Thanks for trolling. :-)


57 posted on 05/08/2015 9:43:23 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Impy

That’s right, they won’t take the oath of allegiance to the Queen. I just tried to find the South Thanet vid on YouTube, various clips from it are up there, Farage showed why he’d been able to campaign so effectively, but I had the most fun watching the “silly and slightly silly” minor candidates. Farage is, I believe,onto something regarding UKIP’s future among the under-30s — but again was bemused by the thuggish behavior among the Labour supporters in the crowd.

He’s stepping down from UKIP leadership, is taking the summer off, and will consider standing for leadership again in September. At some point he blew up at the press, which he said claimed that UKIP splits the Tory vote — but even if correct, South Thanet voted 35,000 for Tories/UKIP and 11,000+ for Labour, 1000 Green, 900+ for LD, so, not bad.

[snip] “There was an earthquake in this election. It happened in Scotland, and I think what you saw were a lot of voters so scared of that Labour-SNP coalition that they shifted towards the Conservatives. That included some of the people here who voted Ukip last time round. But I saw another shift in this election and I saw Ukip the party, apparently the party for retired old colonels, suddenly the party for people under 30, particularly young working women. There is a big change going on in politics. We have a party in Britain who got 50pc of the vote in one of the regions and nearly 100pc of the seats. We have another party that scored nearly as many votes - four million — as well as the European elections last year that has finished up with one seat in Parliament. I think the time has come for real, genuine, radical political reform. It is Ukip that will be the party that leads it. [/snip]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage/11588784/south-thanet-seat.html


58 posted on 05/08/2015 10:31:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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videos for South Thanet (the Isle of Thanet was a Roman stronghold, if memory serves):

http://www.google.com/search?q=south+thanet&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=vid&source=og&sa=N&tab=wv


59 posted on 05/08/2015 10:33:18 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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Here’s the seat-by-seat breakdown:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11584325/full-results-map-uk-2015.html


60 posted on 05/08/2015 10:34:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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