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UKIP’s rise of 12 points in the same week to 19% will send a shock through Tory ranks because most of those voters are Conservatives.
I’m unconvinced. No, not about the number, but about the all being ex-Tory.
We’ve been so inundated with calls that the overflow arrives in the press office. There’s an awful lot of people who would never, on tribal grounds, vote Tory who are now asking for signs, for posters, for UKIP.
It just ain’t just Tories, it’s a national upchuck.
Erm…..
Conservatives 41%, - 9
Labour on 19%
LibDems 19%.
UKIP 19% + 12
BNP 4% + 0
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Nigel has a comment piece in the Daily Express today. Not online as yet (they tend to get stuff up later in the day on their website) and hard hitting stuff.
“Just as the clapped-out old Westminster parties did not want you to know about the expenses claims of their MPs so they do not want you to know what they’re actually standing for in this election. The Lib Dems want to continue turning the Westminster Parliament into a parish council, Labour if for more Gordon Brown no matter what and the Tories have been sitting on hte fence so long they’re in danger of getting impaled.”
Worth a read.
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Paul Nuttal has a piece in The Guardian today.
I realise that election time leads some politicians to be – how to put this – economical with the facts, but Peter Cranie’s piece advocating a “vote Green to keep the BNP out” policy violates even the most basic standards of adherence to reality.
How can anyone write about the 2004 European election results and not mention the most salient fact about them: that Ukip got 16.1% of the vote? That Ukip came third, pushing the Lib Dems into fourth place?
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This is rather amusing. Very amusing in fact.
Not much to it, I’m not sure that I see the connection or anything, but amusing all the same.
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Well, according to some lists we might well be.
Possession of subversive literature: “pictures, cartoons, bumper stickers that contain anti-government rhetoric. Most of this material will depict the HR Revenue and Customs, ACPO, HSE, UN, Police and EU in a derogatory manner.”
Sounds like you and me…..actually, sounds like the vast majority of the British population.