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Does The Left Want An End To Democracy?

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naomi24 | 07:53 Sun 10th May 2015 | News
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This is what happened yesterday – a day after the result of the election was announced.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/protesters-police-face-downing-street-5670007
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"Their number of seats halved. Their leader didn't get elected. They are probably finished as a credible party."

Their number of seats halved from two to one -- "halved" is a bit too dramatic for a loss of just one seat. And since UKIP just won control of Thanet Council, rumours of their death as a credible party are probably exaggerated. Although if Nigel Farage regains the leadership...

Some UKIP folk are claiming Farage 's defeat was a fix since they won control of Thanet council but he failed to become their MP.
^Watch this space.
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I doubt it was a fix, simply the result of a concerted effort against him. UKIP are popular with a minority of the electorate -- perhaps larger than their vote share, but a minority all the same -- and represent a view that is not exactly centre-ground. So it ought to be easier to persuade people to vote against Farage than for him. That he managed to come a close-ish second is still some achievement, but not really a fix.

A reformed voting system would have given UKIP more representation, probably, but absent that they will have to work very hard to win more than a handful of seats. Hopefully, for the party at least, they can make use of the various second-placed/ third-placed finishes they've achieved as something to build on for the future. 2015 for UKIP was like trying to win a 200m sprint from a standing start when your opponents had set off five seconds ago; in 2020 they might be starting from about the same position and if they play things well then could be looking at something closer to 20 seats or more -- but we'll see.

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