Poll: which party are you going to vote in up coming elections?
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You are of course aware that you can travel to other countries in the world that aren't in the EU, have their own immigration policy, and you don't need a visa.
Cry more.
Living in a Tory stronghold county/region, Bucks/South East. I think, with the results just in, my vote actually achieved something for the first time. I voted Green and the 1 Green MEP in the area held his seat.
Now to get him to accept nuclear power.
Now to get him to accept nuclear power.
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This Daniel Hannan may be conservative, but he most definitely has one foot in the UKIP camp.
That's the part I never understand. European migrants come and get work, rent living quarters, get a car, bring the family, it's all doable. But you look at them and go "this is the scum that overcrowds our towns and keep our poor people poor". How does that even pass through your head without making your angry at yourself and red out of shame.
If it is about jobs, then what jobs are the Europeans stealing from locals? Unless there are genuinely millions of 50something like deuce losing race to starbucks barista positions and missing seats on seasonal veg picker buses to foreigners, day after day, time and time again, getting hormonal about the whole "Europeans be stilling our low skilled jewbs" is just weird, if not plain stupid.
WTF wants the jobs on washing up duty in crap take away outfit other than Janek and Mario? How TF would a person born with command of English language and local address ever lose a low skill position to someone who just arrived on a bus from Poland and has Borat thumbs up for entire vocabulary? Unless they were absolutely hopeless at everything in their miserable worthless life?
So you are telling me that not only your locals are inept enough to keep losing job interviews to Borats and Cheeky Girls but you also need to vote in political power to close the gates to the country and barbwire cliffs of Dover for a generation or two, so your homies can finally manage to secure positions flipping burgers or painting fences? To quote my MTV channel - Are you for motherloving real bruv?
UKIP don't have any racist policies, mainly because they have no policies in general. They don't even have a manifesto as they've disowned the one from the last general election.
All they've done is get an non-proportionate amount of media coverage and with that a good share of the vote. "No press is bad press"....Unfortunately this is a demonstration of where democracy fails
I'm not a fan of the EU so I don't mind too much as i'm pretty sure this time next year UKIP will struggle to even get 1 seat in Westminster, they'd struggle now as it is anyhow...
I didn't vote that way as i couldn't bring myself to do it, but I'm glad Europe in general is giving quite a big impression of "get your **** together or disband the EU"
Most people that vote UKIP this time round are probably not racist (i'd hope 30% of the country aren't that way inclined...). However, MOST people that voted UKIP this time round haven't looked into any real facts or figures of substance. The long term supporters of UKIP i'm afraid are indeed xenophobic or racist, the Party's policies may not be, but it undoubtedly attracts people that vote that way.
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That's the excuse all the main parties are coming out with too
Hilarious!
~11% of the population voted for them. I'm more worried about other parties trying to react and grab a slice of this right-wing sentiment and politics becoming a dialogue of "who can blame someone else the loudest" than I am about the damage UKIP could do in Westminster.
That's the excuse all the main parties are coming out with too
Hilarious!
It's true. It's the same reason the Lib Dems did well in the last general election.
A half decently organised / funded party that get given an opportunity in the media, grasp it well and run with it to see a sharp increase in support. People are always anti-the government in power. The wounds form labour are still too deep and Ed Miliband is not charismatic enough to paper over the cracks (even though leaders shouldn't actually matter that much in real terms!)
With the three main ones crossed off, and with a charismatic leader UKIP have had a sharp rise, that's fact. Also, at times of austerity the Right tend to see a rise, so all these results are to be expected.
However, this doesn't change the fact that they have a severe lack of policies and that i'm sure the big parties / press have a very strong smear campaign building for the next year.
Half of the UKIP vote - floating voters, will quite quickly distance themselves from them when they are made explicitly aware of others associated with the party and things that have happened in the past.
People have voted as a protest this year and fair enough, but those that are chanting UKIP UKIP UKIP thinking it's the start of a revolution will be bitterly disappointing next year m'fraid.
Yep, say one think about UKIP they've blown apart the Libdem's
They've done nothing of the sort; the Lib Dems lit that fuse the second they entered into government with the tories.
The frightening thing is, aslco. Watching William Hague give his interview on Sky last night was quite shocking how revealing he hates the general public. It's one thing thinking he hates them, it's another how revealing it is when they do it unaware and no shame. Then they turn around and say how they understand how the public feel. Lol!
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