Interesting article in the Daily Telegraph by Dan Hodges about UKIP: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100214388/ukip-dont-like-it-up-em/
Is it not the case that if you take the BNP percentage of support in 2010 and add it to the UKIP percentage of support in 2010 you get the UKIP percentage of support in 2013? (roughly, and and with a certain degree of extrapolation)?
Far from UKIP gaining new support they are mainly picking up support resulting from the implosion of the BNP.
As few people would admit publicly to being former BNP voters these new supporters are showing up in surveys as ex-Conservative or ex-Labour.
Europe and immigration are important issues, but they need to be addressed by rational policies not intemperate flouncing and grandstanding - in that respect UKIP is harming the argument for immigration restraint and European reform, not helping.
"UKIP if you want to, the Conservative Party's not for kipping" as an astringent Conservative agent recently told a semi-public meeting.
Is it not the case that if you take the BNP percentage of support in 2010 and add it to the UKIP percentage of support in 2010 you get the UKIP percentage of support in 2013? (roughly, and and with a certain degree of extrapolation)?
Far from UKIP gaining new support they are mainly picking up support resulting from the implosion of the BNP.
As few people would admit publicly to being former BNP voters these new supporters are showing up in surveys as ex-Conservative or ex-Labour.
Europe and immigration are important issues, but they need to be addressed by rational policies not intemperate flouncing and grandstanding - in that respect UKIP is harming the argument for immigration restraint and European reform, not helping.
"UKIP if you want to, the Conservative Party's not for kipping" as an astringent Conservative agent recently told a semi-public meeting.
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