Anthony Butcher

I just thought that I would clarify that for anyone interested. The national share vote was 2.2% and the average UKIP result was 2.5% (because UKIP didn't stand in every seat).

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Britannist

What UKIP has to watch for now is attempts by larger parties to 'squeeze' its vote - Labour is now particularly desperate for more votes, having slumped again in the latest opinion poll.

Both Labour and the Cameron-Conservatives want to get and/or stay above the 40% level and go into the next General Election campaign on at least that share of support in the opinion polls.

They could only achieve this at the expense of 'squeezing' the europhile Liberal Dims and also by 'squeezing' the other small parties - including UKIP.

Ironically, in order for Labour and the Cameron-Conservatives to try to effectively 'squeeze' the parties that are smaller than the Liberal Dims - such as UKIP, they would/will have to both appear even more eurosceptic than they currently do.

And there is not guarantee that other parties will succeed in 'squeezing' UKIP in a tight (i.e. close) election battle anyway. There may now be at 2% of voters across the UK who are just going to vote UKIP regardless of what the other parties say or do.

But UKIP should remain alert to attempts from now on by others to try to grab the 600, 000+ votes it got at the last General Election.

I wouldn't put it past Labour to pretend for a short time that it is anti-euro - just to get itself through the next General Election.

For_England

I suppose if one wanted to vote for out of date tory ideals, such as protected trade, lowering of the income tax, abolition of indirect taxes, end to third world immigration, assisted passage for the non-indigenous, capital punishment, grammar schools, gun ownership, a sovereign Britain, restoration of counties and their traditional powers, and the 3 'r's instead of trendy teaching, that one would have to vote for the unmentionable party.

Westcountryman

Protected trade & nationalised industries = bad.

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For_England

Protected trade = good.
nationalised industries = bad.

Britannist

Yes, nationalised industries are bad - so let's now get rid of one of the last of them: the europhile BBC.

Why should the Brussels Broadcasting Corporation be allowed to escape de-nationalisation when almost every other large state border was made to stand on its own two feet in the real commercial world (i.e. gas, electricity, telephones, trains and other state monopolies).

Time to get the biased pro-Labour and pro-Liberal 'Democrat' BBC out of our pockets.

Westcountryman

How is encouraging inefficient industries and limiting consumer choice a good thing?

Protectionism is bad. If consumers really want to buy British made goods, they will.

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rjt

I live in hope of the abolition of the Licence fee but of course all the while it offers support to the Pro EU cause it will retian the support of those in power.

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