Benjamin_Nevis Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 You could have dressed up a baboon in the SNP colours and you would have voted for it. You're absolute seething. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Patrick Flynn MEP, former Political Editor of the Daily Express, would be my bet. Farage is not at all well and stood down in 2009/10. Douglas Carswell MP has ruled himself out and it would be no surprise if he defected back to the Tories, especially if Nuttall or Flynn succeeds Farage. Flynn will having the powerful backing of Richard Desmond who donated a million quid for the election campaign. He would take UKIP to the left on economics to target Labour and Lib Dem voters. Most of UKIP's votes on Thursday came from Lib Dems and, to a lesser extent, Labour rather than Tories. If Labour goes back to middle class Blairism, UKIP will be ready to target the working class vote. Do you have any evidence to back that up? It would certainly be my assumption. What a waste of time and money! Sadly not. They will be targeting seats in Holyrood which they will get under PR. It was essential for them that they run candidates this time round to build support ahead of that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Can't be fucked going through every seat in Scotland, but is it safe to assume that UKIP lost every deposit? Yep, they only came close in the weirdo Northern Isles constituency. East Dunbartonshire 1.00% Edinburgh South 1.20% Glasgow North 1.30% Edinburgh North 1.50% Inverclyde 1.60% Renfrewshire East 1.60% Aberdeen South 1.80% Aberdeenshire West 1.80% Edinburgh East 1.90% Edinburgh West 1.90% Ross, Skye & Lochaber 1.90% East Kilbride 2.00% East Lothian 2.00% Glasgow Central 2.00% Gordon 2.00% Edinburgh South West 2.10% Inverness 2.10% Dumfries & Galloway 2.30% Kirkcaldy 2.30% Ochil 2.30% Rutherglen 2.30% Ayrshire North 2.40% Berwisckshire 2.40% Coatbridge 2.40% Glasgow South West 2.40% Midlothian 2.40% Perth 2.40% Airdrie & Shotts 2.50% Argyll & Bute 2.50% Ayr 2.50% Glasgow East 2.60% Lanark 2.60% Linlithgow 2.70% Motherwell 2.70% Dumfriesshire 2.80% Caithness 2.90% Angus 3.00% Falkirk 3.00% Livingston 3.10% Moray 3.90% Orkney & Shetland 4.80% Aberdeen North n/a Ayrshire Central n/a Banff & Buchan n/a Cumbernauld n/a West Dunbartonshire n/a Dundee East n/a Dundee West n/a Dunfermline n/a Fife North East n/a Glasgow North East n/a Glasgow North West n/a Glasgow South n/a Glenrothes n/a Kilmarnock n/a Na h-Eileanan an Iar n/a Paisley North n/a Paisley South n/a Stirling n/a 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Do you have any evidence to back that up? You only have to look at the 2015 vs 2010 vote shares in England's constituencies - especially in SW London, the South, the South West and Wales where the Lib Dems were hammered. UKIP has largely replaced the Lib Dems as the protest party for those oppose the Tories and Labour. At general elections, Tory and Labour voters are generally loyal. In European elections, they are more likely to rebel as they do not affect who is in government. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagfox Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Bloody Orcadians and Shetlanders *shakes fist* 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~~~ Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 A UKIP councillor in Portsmouth has defected Tories. Wouldn't be surprised to hear many more returning to the mothership over the next year or so 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanky_ffc Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 ???? £20,500 in lost deposits and only 2% of the vote to show for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumper Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 £20,500 in lost deposits and only 2% of the vote to show for it. Shows with spectacular clarity how much of their support is solely out of disillusionment with LibLabCon (was going to say "the big three" but the Liberals are no longer "big"; was going to say "Westminster parties" but Ukip are just a Tory backbench group with a new rosette). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 At the next election how will the national broadcasters decide who should be included in the debates? Seats won in previous election? Seats to be contested? Votes won in the previous election? Number of MPs actually elected at the last election? Should lead to some interesting discussions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Cannae even resign properly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rational Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Yeah the Mayor of Trumpton can't even resign properly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rational Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Yeah the Mayor of Trumpton can't even resign properly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete's Frontier Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Good to see Farage staying on. 4m supporters across all sections of society, and many more who would have voted for him in under PR. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 UKIP's dismal failure on Thursday is simply the latest busted flush in the merry go round of right wing populist politics. There's always some bunch of goons who are about the shake the system to its core or whatever and they always fall apart in humiliating circumstances shortly after. UKIP's five minutes in the sun actually extending to the collection of some MEP salaries is actually a remarkable success story going by the far-right's incredibly low standards. That'll be that though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Good to see Farage staying on. 4m supporters across all sections of society, and many more who would have voted for him in under PR. Couldn't win his hand picked seat. How many times is that now he's failed miserably? Sorry I've lost count. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elixir Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Zero credibility. Bring on the EU referendum. It's really the best thing that can happen. Either it's "in", which will break the hearts of bigots across the land and finish UKIP, or it's "out" which means independence is in the bag in no time. Pleasing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 I think it will be at least 60/40 and another round of humiliation for Nigel and ukip. Pleasing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete's Frontier Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) The workings of the militant nat mind on the eu is truly a beautiful thing, the belief the same numpties who voted for them in droves are sophisticated enough to work out the nuances of the eu, benefits vs costs, or could even point to Brussels on a map. Highly unlikely. Could be they will just all vote how Frau Nippy tells them, maybe the only reason the snp sheeple block will vote to stay in the eu. You look at the polling they mostly want a vote and are unhappy with migration levels, so Frau Nippy has some work to do to sell this steaming pile of corrupt political waste to her newbie flock. Edited May 11, 2015 by Pete's Frontier 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete's Frontier Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) I noted a eurosceptic party in Finland (Finns Party) has just become the second party of Finland. Finland, quite a similar country to Scotland, or what Nippy and co want Scotland to be: an irrelevant backwater of the eu flooded by needy migrants. If Finland is not happy with this arrangement why would Scotland? The Fins are famous for being fiercely proud of their identity and independence, obviously a bit more right of centre than your typical SNP cultural Marxist, but a very similar nation in population and GDP - not happy with eu though. Edited May 11, 2015 by Pete's Frontier 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenBud Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Offt, he's really not taken this electoral humiliation very well at all. Made up anecdote in 5,4,3,2, Edited May 11, 2015 by AberdeenBud 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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