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Originally Posted by Petrina
Apart from a hardened core of often rather unpleasant activists the Lib Dem vote is fairly fluid .The founders of UKIP were ,in the main I believe , Liberals of the old school .
In my opinion we are very foolish to ignore the potential votes from the Lib Dems. .To openly pursue the Tory vote and thereby act as a pressure group upon the Tory Party is something of a cul de sac ,however popular it might make Farage in some quarters .
With our policies of small govt ,low tax ,personal freedom ,reduced immigration we can still appeal to a wide cross section of voters ,indeed in the city areas we appeal to the old Labour voters .
I do agree with Farage that we are the voice of the opposition to the big three and therefore we should use that postion to glean votes from ALL three parties .
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I absolutely agree with Petrina on the possibilities for UKIP in cutting heavily into the votes of Labour and the Liberal Dims as well as other parties.
I saw one opinion poll result several years ago (in the Telegraph, I think) which said that 50% of Liberal 'Democrat' voters do not like the euro. Alot of Liberal 'Democrat' supporters would not vote for that party if they knew what it really stood for (i.e. complete capitulation to the bullies in Brussels).
Many Labour voters who would never vote Conservative and who think - rightly - that the Liberal 'Democrats' are just plain daft and unfit for high office - would vote UKIP (if UKIP ran a professional campaign as it did so at the last EU Election). Indeed, alot of Labour voters - especially in the London, south-east and 'east' Midland areas did back UKIP and helped elect UKIP MEPs. Gerard Batten (the UKIP London MEP) probably got more Labour than Conservative votes.
The ultimate aim of UKIP should be to get all anti-EU voters to abandon their respective parties and unite under one UKIP banner at a General Election.