Is The Time Right For Nukip?

[Gromit]

UKIPs new leader is promising a rebrand. NuKip will be less Rugby Club on tour, and will try to attract more women.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/07/paul-nuttalls-nukip-vision-beer-swilling-is-an-image-of-the-past

While that sounds like a good strategy, I can't help but think the result will be he loses more people than he attracts. Farage revelled in being unPC and this new felka seems embarrased by it.

[Baldric]

Oh, just one more thing,

Labour in the meantime are where?

[Jackdaw33]

I like Farage. He is no fool and very eloquent. How can you not warm to a man who likes a fag and a pint or four?

[Baldric]

And ^ one who shares his £4M Bachelor Pad with a Foreign Bird, so no prejudice there then

[youngmafbog]

Yes, but that is because UKIP ar not racist, that is put about by people like Mickey because it suits their agenda.

UK want the party freed from the EU so we govern ourselves and controlled immigration not the free for all we have at the moment that has proved so disastrous for so many nearer the bottom of the ladder.

[ichkeria]

"Rugby club on tour" sounds more like the Young Tories (tho there do seem to have beenm a lot of punch-ups). I always thought of UKIP more as pensioners with party badges stumbling from one unfortunate un-PC gaffe to the next. And all so much fun. I am inclined to agree with Gromit that if you try to take that element out of it it just won't be the same. UKIP's main selling point was that they were "different". If they become seen to be part of the political establishment then they'll sort of lose their point, and possible their attraction. Their incarnation under Nuttall is plainly going to be the Workers' Patriotic Front, but you don't have to be a political genius to see that that approach is ultimately doomed.

[mikey4444]

Bernie....Labour....dead in the water ?

Labour......232 MPs
UKIP.........eh?....1 MP

You do the math, as our colonial cousins like to say !

YMB.....TTT has it right here.....UKIP has no purpose any more.

[naomi24]

Miley, //UKIP has no purpose any more.//

They still scare the hell out of you though. ;o)

[Baldric]

You missed a number Mikey, Tories . . . . 329

[Garaman]

If UKIP gained support wouldn’t most of it be at the expense of the Tory party? If that were the case it would in effect weaken the Right at election time.

[Jackdaw33]

No, Tory voters no longer have any reason to vote UKIP. Any increase in support will come from disillusioned Labour voters.

[Baldric]

Of which ^^^ there must be many!

[mikey4444]

Garaman....most but not all of UKIPs support comes from the Tories. But quite a lot came from Labour, or it did in my constituency, as it went from being a solid Labour seat since 1904, to Tory last year, and that was all down to UKIP, not any great surge in popularity of the Tory Party.

But that was before the Referendum, and the Ref. changed everything.

What UKIP supporters have to do now, is to think about what UKIP can now do for them, with only one MP. A UKIP without Farage.