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Michael Heaver · 08-05-2008, 08:55 PM

Honestly, I'm really not too sure. I've stated UKIP getting 21 MEP's before, but that'd be best case scenario I think.

The way I see it, people want to give Labour a kick-in but the EU is IMO the achilles heel of Cameron's New Tories project. It's the one subject that his shy approach to policy is especially prevalent (broken EPP group promises and TE BIZARRE against-but-for-if-in-power-maybe Lisbon Treaty position). With the LibDems finally revealing themselves to be spineless altogether, I hope for a big swing in UKIP's direction once more.

What we need to remember is this: a year before the 2004 Euro elections, who would EVER had seen UKIP quadrupling its representation and beating the LibDems? Politics is volatile, and the Lisbon 'Treaty' debacle is going to do us no harm in terms of emphasising the importance of the EU in many people's eyes in 2009.

I really, really think that 2009 could be the making of UKIP.

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Michael Heaver Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 394 Party: UKIP	Honestly, I'm really not too sure. I've stated UKIP getting 21 MEP's before, but that'd be best case scenario I think. The way I see it, people want to give Labour a kick-in but the EU is IMO the achilles heel of Cameron's New Tories project. It's the one subject that his shy approach to policy is especially prevalent (broken EPP group promises and TE BIZARRE against-but-for-if-in-power-maybe Lisbon Treaty position). With the LibDems finally revealing themselves to be spineless altogether, I hope for a big swing in UKIP's direction once more. What we need to remember is this: a year before the 2004 Euro elections, who would EVER had seen UKIP quadrupling its representation and beating the LibDems? Politics is volatile, and the Lisbon 'Treaty' debacle is going to do us no harm in terms of emphasising the importance of the EU in many people's eyes in 2009. I really, really think that 2009 could be the making of UKIP.