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Originally Posted by Britannist
So that's 0.58% for the anti-EU candidate in the Cheadle By-Election a year ago in a Conservative-LD battle compared to 8.07% for UKIP in a similar Conservative-LD battle at Bromley last week. I know which result I prefer. In just a year, the anti-EU vote has shot up 16 times in the second of two Conservative-LD By-Election battles.
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Are you sure that this has anything to do with the "anti-EU" vote?
Comparing Veritas and UKIP is, I think, largely meaningless. People don't switch parties arbitrarily on the basis of a single policy (or at least I would be very surprised if more than a handful do).
Nigel fought his campaign on immigration and low taxes, and a direct appeal to use UKIP as a protest vote. I don't think that any of that comes under a direct anti-EU vote.