Posted on 05/08/2015 5:53:19 AM PDT by C19fan
UKIP only one parliamentary seat and Nigel Farage resigned after failing to win in the constituency he ran in. But UKIP came in third place with 3.9 MM votes or 12.7% gaining 9.6% easily beating the Liberal-Democrats. The problem is their votes are spread all over England so they only one seat in a first-past-the-post voting system.
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Untrue. The two gentlemen defected from the Tories, but then had the grace to resign their seats, thus forcing a by-election, which they both won as UKIP candidates.
What ARE you talking about?
The problem for UKIP is that people are voting for the Party as more of a protest, rather than for the individual candidates themselves, they need to work on developing the talent and attracting quality leadership, outside of Farange, who I think is a great standard-bearer for the movement.
I think Farage will be back, I think he just wants to lie low for awhile.
UKIP needs to develop beyond just immigration and EU skepticism into a true conservative party. Even though the seat allotment is disappointing, to become the third party ahead of the Liberal Democrats is a phenomenal achievement.
Thanks for the correction. I just remembered something about two MPs going over to UKIP.
Being UKIP is like being Libertarian here. Its hard to win agains’t the other two parties GOP and Dem.
“UKIP needs to develop beyond just immigration and EU skepticism into a true conservative party.”
There was another comment I saw on another thread that was very similar:
“The party needs to come out stronger on issues other than simply immigration and the EU”
But, the problem with that is, UKIP is not conservative per se. They are non-partisan and have as their mission only addressing that issue.
They have taken from Labour as well as Conservative, albeit less.
UKIP’s idea is that they are for leaving the EU.
Beyond that they are non-partisan.
In other words, if they leave the EU, the UK can vote any way they want, that is not UKIP’s concern. They see it as the EU relation being an issue that cuts across ideology and is common to any and all UK’ers.
I like Nigel Farage and if he were in this country I would vote for him. He and the UKIP gave it the good fight and it’s too bad out of getting almost 4 Million votes they only have one seat to show for it.
Yes, I was just curious if there is an obvious successor if he should decide not to run, or if there will be a messy fight for the position.
South Thanet rejected Farage but I just read that UKIP won control of the Thanet local council. This is the first council to have a UKIP majority.
http://news.sky.com/story/1480881/ukip-takes-control-of-first-council-thanet
Thanks Impy. Local successes of that kind are probably a good path for UKIP to pursue, rather than complaining that the largest vote-getters win the seat — it isn’t affirmative action after all.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/09/ukip-tory-tories-election
Some in the Labour party believe UKIP cost THEM some seats by taking White working class votes.
UKIP draws from all other parties, thanks to Euroskepticism, and since Labour is 100 percent in favor of basically unrestricted immigration and putting immigrants directly on the dole, they’re probably right. :’)
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