Michael Heaver

Many have been wishing as such ever since we shocked the establishment in 1999....so far this claim has proven to be based on fear.

zbrahead

In 1999? I was 7 or 8 at the time.

And anyhow, UKIP has had too much negativity.


The saying, 'Too much water under the bridge' springs to mind.

Michael Heaver

I was 9 at the time. So what?

zbrahead

Don't deliberately miss the point. Seriously, it ****** most people off.

Populist Lee

That makes you about 18 now.

Seriously, you have a lot to learn about the Tory Party if you think that next year Tory Party workers/members will allow their irritation at the way their party has selected their EU candidates to gift 21 MEPs to UKIP.

kernow

I'm looking more along the lines of, those like us who are anti EU will vote, those that couldn't care less about the EU( and there's a lot of them) won't!

Independent UKIP

That is why he is a member of Young Independence.

Baron von Lotsov

Has anyone tried to do any kind of exit poll or survey of people in London? You don't need to spend loads on it, someone who asks about 100 people about ten questions concerning the UKIP would give you a far better idea what is going on than pure guesswork.

Something is very wrong, I was expecting about 5% but this result is not good. Some thoughts on it are that one, the politicians and press have stopped talking about the EU from the hey day of Margaret Thatcher where it was in the news nearly every night. This would mean that over the years people move on and forget about it. The laws are all blamed on the Labour Party even though they have to make most of them by their EU masters.

Second is that Boris is a popular man, without a doubt and most unpolitically correct. He's not the sort people would use their vote to protest against for being too EU/leftwing. He did a TV programme likening it to Rome I found out today. That hardly sounds like typical europhile talk. But other parties did well and especially the BNP. I think this is because immigration is very bad in London. Well, all over the Southeast it seems that way, try Slough, it's like Bangladesh these days. So that plus violence on the streets seems to far outweigh a very distant EU. However this does not correspond with all the recent referendum business, I had expected that to give the UKIP a big boost. So what are the punters thinking?

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Millennium3

An exit poll would have been useful as small parties do live in something of a vacuum with regard to public opinion. As you say UKIP has been weakened on two sides, firstly by a more obviously eurosceptic Tory party and secondly by the BNP who have appealed to voters very real fear of increased immigration.

It would require a significant change in strategy to recover the ground lost.

Independent Working Class

Yes, an excellent UKIP result in London...London UKIP have really made progress...*sniggers*