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Originally Posted by Raymond Finch
Regarding the Portsmouth result.
Your party (the English Democrats) had stood there previously. Your candidate is chair of Hampshire and a member of your NC. Your vote dropped like a stone from may. UKIP had never previously stood in the ward. It was only the second time we (UKIP) have stood anywhere in Portsmouth.Our score was very disappointing. Yours was a disaster given your previous strength in the city. I will guarantee we will beat you anywhere and everywhere we face you in Pompey in May.
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I notice, Raymond, that UKIP got an impressive 23% of the vote - one of the party's highest vote shares in a local election ward By-Election contest so far (and one of the biggest votes any 'small' party has got in a local ward By-Election for a long time) - at Bracknell in Berkshire on 7.2.2008 securing almost as many votes as europhile Labour (in accord with a forecast I have made previously here that UKIP is and will continue to beat Labour into third place in a number of semi-urban and rural wards in the south of England):
UKIP Candidate gets 23% in by-election