U K I P Top British Polls

[ChillDoubt]

http://news.sky.com/story/1268952/european-elections-ukip-top-british-polls

Time for a lot of people to wake up and smell what they've been shovelling for the last 12 months.

[ChillDoubt]

UK MEP numbers so far

The tally of UK MEPs per party: UKIP 11, Conservatives eight, Labour seven, Green Party one
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Labour top in Wales, 0.2% ahead of UKIP. IMHO that is woeful for Red Ed, surely?

[ChillDoubt]

Tweet from blog:
Lib Dems in 6th place in Wales.

[sunny-dave]

"BNP Leader Nick Griffin has told me that he has been defeated tonight as NW Euro MP"


Going home to spend more time with his .... swastika?

[ChillDoubt]

BNP leader Nick Griffin says he has lost his seat in the European Parliament, blaming the rise of UKIP as the protest party of choice. But he says Nigel Farage's party is not anti-immigration, adding it is "anti-working class and going nowhere".
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Results are obviously proving otherwise. Bye-bye, bellend.

[jeffa]

"Bye-bye, bellend."

Every cloud :-)

[jim360]

Watching the BBc's live programme. Right now David Dimbleby is asking William Hague why people are turning from the Conservatives to UKIP "in droves". But I'm not sure the figures are really showing that. Conservative support is dropping to be sure but I think given that they're the party in Government that was probably to be expected anyway so the only about 3.5-point drop isn't too bad, really.

The parties that are taking the biggest hits are LibDem and the BNP (as well as other minor parties that seem to have their vote slashed (e.g. NO2EU has lost something like 80% of their support!). So it looks to me that UKIP is picking up voters from two main sources: those people who were going to cast a protest vote anyway but now have decided that UKIP offers a genuine protest vote that could be listened to; and voters disillusioned with the LibDems (who were arguably the protest party of choice before 2010 themselves!).

I don't think that the Conservative Party is coming out of this election too badly, anyway.

[ChillDoubt]

Watching the same programme now jim, they're talking ti Farage.
He's very measured, isn't getting carried away or acting smugly, just has the air of man who is confident.
Even Nick Robinson says that 12 months ago the talk of a UKIP MP was laughable. Now there would be a possibility of 3,4 or even 5 if an election took place tomorrow.

[ChillDoubt]

From the blog:

There's a bit of a lull in results at the moment. So here are the numbers. UKIP has 12 MEPs so far (up five in the regions declared), the Conservatives nine (down three), Labour eight (up three), the Greens one (up one), Plaid Cymru one (no change). The Lib Dems have lost five MEPs and the BNP one. That's 31 of 73 MEPs announced.

[jeffa]

3 Labour, 3 UKIP, 2 Con in North West.

BNP officially gone.

[jim360]

The Labour winner in North West giving a speech that I think was typical of the Labour campaign in the European Election: not mentioning Europe at all. How odd.

[jeffa]

3 UKIP, 2 Labour, 2 Con in West Midlands.

[ChillDoubt]

nevertheless Farage has changed the game. and he is to be applauded for that.
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I agree. Like, love or loathe him he has to be lauded for something I've not seen in many a year i.e. getting people re-engaged in politics.
Furthermore, he appears to have 4 attributes the other leaders dont:
Honesty
Integrity
Personality
Charisma

[ChillDoubt]

Current BBC projection says there will possibly be a first UKIP MEP in Scotland.

[ChillDoubt]

From the blog:


West Midlands results

The number of MEPs per party: UKIP three, Conservatives two, Labour two.

[jim360]

Yes, Farage might end up doing British politics a service but not necessarily in the way he would have wanted! It's about how the main parties react more than what he does. On the other hand the MEPs we're sending to Europe mightn't necessarily be quite so hard-working, it's been suggested. Not that I'd noticed any of that previously.

[jeffa]

It's all over Twitter that UKIP has won a seat in Scotland!!!

[jim360]

I'm no UKIP supporter but that's possibly the only time I'll be pleased to see a UKIP winner! Would love to see Salmond humiliated.

[ChillDoubt]

It'll be a spanner in the works for Salmond, that's for sure.