(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)
There was a minor council by-election last Thursday – the Silverdale and Parksite ward of Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council.
It was a Labour hold but very interestingly it showed a strong 7.3% swing from UKIP to Labour in an area which was supposed to be a target for Nigel Farage’s party.
Not great news for Nigel I would imagine, who has recently been trying to convince everyone that UKIP doesn’t only enjoy support in the south-east of England and will be targeting more seats in traditional Labour strongholds from now on.
A Thatcher-worshipping, right-wing Tory splinter group campaigning to win over traditional Labour voters?
Good luck to him with that.
Related articles by Tom Pride:
UKIP supporters desecrate graves with swastikas
UKIP activist calls Drummer Lee Rigby’s family ‘idiots’
Newly elected UKIP councillor in court accused of being a benefit cheat (not satire!)
The UKIP – under us thousands will lose their jobs and most will pay more tax (not satire)
UKIP candidate – physical exercise prevents homosexuality (no – not satire)
Nigel Farage, the Tea Party Godfather and the man who tried to trash the pound. Twice.
UKIP chairman – every UK city should have 1 or 2 ‘holding’ camps for immigrants
UKIP candidate – UK dinners flooded by criminal gangs of eastern European horses
If the UKIP is so bloody libertarian – why has it said nothing against secret courts?
The UKIP and a little matter of bestiality and necrophilia …..
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UKIP lost votes but won their percentage of the SHOUTING population who turned out went up. So ‘The Great Farage’ counts that as a MORAL VICTORY-HUZZAH!
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Apparently it’s only newsworthy when UKIP do well.
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Traditional labour voters are to the left of the labour party so why would they vote for right wing UKIP, it makes no sense other than as a protest vote against labour and it’s inability to tackle controversial issues.
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can we take it that this ‘swing’ in only partially to the right and not as far right as would be liked as labour doesn’t do ‘left’ anymore
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perhaps people will vote labour hoping that the roots to old labour still remain but i think that these have been well and truly cut by now…
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Hardly surprising that Labour held onto a council seat vacated by Labour in what is traditionally one of the safest Labour parliamentary seats in the country even though Labour are now Tory-Lite.
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if ukip are loseing votes to labour tat says a hell of a lot about labour.
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Anyone that votes for a party that supported mass uncontrolled immigration is just plain thick.
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Of course this ignore the hard campaigning done locally by the Labour Party with lots of door stepping, talking to the voters and delivering leaflets covering the issues. I am pleased to say it worked this time!
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