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[May 2014 ] The Eurosceptic party’s victory marked the first time in modern history that neither Labour nor the Conservatives have won a British national election.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/26/ukip-european-elections-political-earthquake
[Oct 2014] Yesterday Ukip’s group in the European Parliament collapsed after the departure of Latvian MEP Iveta Grigule, which left it bereft of the minimum seven countries needed to qualify as an official parliamentary grouping.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/10/ukips-european-parliament-group-has-collapsed-what-does-mean
[Oct 2014] Ukip has struck a deal with a Polish MEP whose far-right party leader casually uses racial slurs and questions the Holocaust following fears that its grouping in Europe would lose millions of pounds in taxpayers’ funds.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/20/ukip-does-deal-with-far-right-to-save-european-grouping
> UKIP has two Members of Parliament, three representatives in the House of Lords and twenty-three Members of the European Parliament, making it the largest UK party in the European Parliament.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
> “This proves how powerless the European Parliament is,” says UKIP MEP as French president insists parliament must go on sitting once a month in Strasbourg. Hollande insists parliament will “never” stop its L82m monthly shuttle between Brussels and Strasbourg, another reason for UK to leave EU says UKIP.
http://www.ukipmeps.org/news_1024_Brussels-Strasbourg-shuttling-will-never-stop-says-Hollande.html