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Originally Posted by BASILDON BOY
Sod the number os seats the Tories will get...
...the number of seats UKIP will get is the only number we should be interested in...
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'Basildon Boy' - may I request that you be polite when responding to my postings. You have responded in this rude way before :evil: when I have reported on opinion polls and how many seats the Conservatives might win. Please desist. You don't have to agree - but you might try to be more polite to someone on the same anti-EU side as you.
How the Conservative Party is performing is of importance to UKIP since both parties 'share' about 1.3 million voters (the number of people who vote Conservative in General Elections but who backed UKIP at the last EU Election on 10.6.2004). UKIP strategists now believe that millions of Conservative votes are "up for grabs" (as are some votes from other parties) and UKIP's bosses will be watching opinion poll results carefully.
The Conservative Party at election time is also of great interest to UKIP's new leader, Mr. Nigel Farage MEP who said only last week (immediately after the declaration of the UKIP 2006 leadership election result on 12.9.2006) "I pledge to champion a raft of traditional Tory policies Mr. Cameron has jettisoned. I want to give a voice to people who no longer voted for the Conservatives. I confirm that low tax, tough immigration controls and selective education will be “at the core” of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) ‘blueprint for the UK’. David Cameron has abandoned Conservatism and abandoned millions of voters and we need to show those voters that UKIP has matured. There is a huge vacuum in British politics because the three traditional parties do not offer the electorate any real choice. UKIP is now the only party saying what most people think. We will fill the void. We (UKIP) intend to fight Conservative candidates who have failed to declare their support for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU.”
Basildon Boy - you say the number of seats UKIP will get is all that you are interested in. Well, you won't get any seats at all unless votes are taken from other parties - and to see if UKIP is moving towards success as regards that aim, one has to look at and examine all opinion polls to monitor progress (which is what I was doing in my last posting to this thread).
It's called politics :shock: .