Farage Will Not Win Seat Says Poll

[Gromit]

// Mr Farage is one point behind the Tories in South Thanet, and just one point ahead of Labour, according to a ComRes poll commissioned by Aaron Banks, the Ukip donor. It suggests Ukip has shed nine points in a month, with Labour gaining ten and the Conservatives gaining four.

Mr Farage has pledged to step down as leader if fails to win a seat. //

Can the party survive without him? Who should replace him?

[mikey4444]

Calvados...well said...the voice of common sense !

[tonyav]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/we-sacked-ukip-defector-tories/ar-AAau4Xr

[naomi24]

Mikey, you keep telling people who agree with you that they are 'the voice of common sense', but Calvados says //UKip are the ultra right wing of the Tory party.// Perhaps you can justify your reasoning in this instance.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...I don't have to...its just common sense ! The party is full of failed Tory weirdos, who the Tory Party were glad to be rid of.

[jim360]

Well I think we just saw the textbook example of circular reasoning there. Thanks Mikey.

[mushroom25]

//I don't have to...its just common sense ! The party is full of failed Tory weirdos, who the Tory Party were glad to be rid of. //

so, back to calling Farage & co. "BNP-Lite", eh Mikey?

[mikey4444]

By the way, calvados is just saying what I and many others are saying. The fact that I agree with him is neither here nor there. He is talking common sense because what he is saying is self-evident. But I don't expect you to agree with me, as you rarely do !

UKIP may take some votes and candidates from the Labour Party but the majority of their current support and personnel are ex-Tories, as seen from Tonyav's post above. The Leader and the two existing UKIP MP's are all ex-Tory.

[DTCwordfan]

As things progress, it wouldn't surprise me to see UKIP get zero seats, maybe 2 at best....the Conservatives are stronger for it.

[mikey4444]

Well said DTC ! ( if Naomi will allow me to say it ! )

[naomi24]

Mikey, no need to refer to me for permission to say what you like, but your consistent failure to explain why those you deem to be the voice of common sense are, in fact, displaying common sense doesn't engender confidence in your own ... erm... common sense.

[Jackdaw33]

The term, 'It's common sense' means that I can't explain it, or no explanation is needed, merely that everyone should realise that I am right in what I say.

[mikey4444]

Naomi...its really quite simple. I believe that I am right !

Don't you believe you are right when you post ? You never show any doubt about your opinions...why should I ?

[jim360]

In physics the term "it's common sense" usually means that it is also wrong...

[naomi24]

Mikey, I asked you why you think calvados, who actually said something very silly, is right. Still no answer.

[mikey4444]

I am not aware what was silly about what calvados said Naomi. Perhaps you can explain what was silly ?

UKIP was born from the far right of the Tory Party, and it is counter-intuitive to expect that many Labour supports will switch from a left wing Party, to UKIP.

Some will, of course, as I have admitted earlier today but the natural UKIP supporters will be disaffected Tories, as had been seen in the election recently of their only 2 MPs.....both ex-Tories. UKIP have yet to elect any ex-Labour MPs, unless they have done that without us knowing !

[retrocop]

Naomi
Mikey will always promote himself 0n his lofty soapbox.He will adjudge his wisdom of Solomon on all those on Answerbank.He has taken upon himself to award the title of "a voice of common sense" to all those who agree with his views.God forbid you should disagree with him.You will be adjudged "daft"If you happen to be American you will also be adjudged as daft because this well travelled Mikey does not happen to agree with the way the citizens of the USA conduct their affairs in their own country.Who does he think he can judge others with some sense of authority?Poor man residing in his caravan in Cornwall with his dog as a sole companion for I doubt if there would be a long suffering Mrs Mikey.This is a man by his own admission will bribe people to engage in conversation with him with buying them a pint of beer(Earlier post when Mikey visits North Wales).I am sure the Cornish men cannot wait for the sage from Wales to share his Lidl chocolate licquers with them in his little caravan.This man is a bigot and will label anyone who disagrees with him as daft ,or in my case ,a Troll.No doubt this sad little lonely man will go running to Auntie to have this post removed.
He also has the Pompous arrogance to suggest that an OP should award a BA when he feels fit.Who the hell does he think he is?

[Jackdaw33]

I've said it before and I will say it again. Living in Labour heartlands I know just how right-wing many ordinary Labour voters are. A sizeable number are of the "hang 'em, flog 'em and send 'em back brigade" so it is not surprising that many are attracted to UKIP which does not carry the historical taint of being anti-working class like the Tories.

[DTCwordfan]

I agree with you on that observation, jackdaw.......

[tonyav]

Thats a very good reply, Jack. Similar in my neck of the woods to.