The big 3 parties 3500 seats, UKIP 157...

[nicko31]

Despite all the hype UKIP are still tin-pot. Come next year we're be saying, What happened to UKIP?

 

[Mr Blobby]

Lib Dems who are power sharing with the Torys just 404! 17% of the vote, if they get that in the Euro elections will get 17% of 73 seats as its proportional representation.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Despite all the hype UKIP are still tin-pot. Come next year we're be saying, What happened to UKIP?

A year is a long time in politics.

 

[nicko31]

So UKIP will do well under PR, quite ironic its a European still voting system.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Only 33% of the electorate bothered to go and vote. It is usually higher in a general election because people feel it is more important. Therefore, only the more dedicated voter makes the effort in European and local councils, which means the fringe parties get the protest vote. It very often happens and is no indication of what will happen next year.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

The question is, which of Labour and the Tories will be able to woo the UKIP vote back.

Whoever does the better job will probably win the election.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Lib Dems who are power sharing with the Torys just 404! 17% of the vote, if they get that in the Euro elections will get 17% of 73 seats as its proportional representation.

There were only 161 local council elections , not the whole country. There are vast swathes of the country where the electorate only voted in the European elections. The opinion polls have all suggested the LibDems will finish in 5th place behind the Greens on Sunday and could end up with no MEPs.

 

[ChicagoGull]

The BBC's projected national share of the vote suggests UKIP would have scored 17% in a Britain-wide election.

Labour would have got 31% of the vote, ahead of Conservatives on 29% with the Liberal Democrats on 13%.

Becoming the third party in the UK is hardly tinpot. Especially when they have said all along they wanted the EU election success as their bullseye.

Honestly this hatred for that party is making me CHEER THEM ON and I voted GREEN.

 

[nicko31]

Only 33% of the electorate bothered to go and vote. It is usually higher in a general election because people feel it is more important. Therefore, only the more dedicated voter makes the effort in European and local councils, which means the fringe parties get the protest vote. It very often happens and is no indication of what will happen next year.

Its bizarre UKIP are getting the low socio economic vote yet are the most right wing of all the parties. Most of the UKIP protest vote know little about what they are about. Their NHS policy would scared 95% of the pop for a start..

 

[nicko31]

The BBC's projected national share of the vote suggests UKIP would have scored 17% in a Britain-wide election.

Labour would have got 31% of the vote, ahead of Conservatives on 29% with the Liberal Democrats on 13%.

Becoming the third party in the UK is hardly tinpot. Especially when they have said all along they wanted the EU election success as their bullseye.

Honestly this hatred for that party is making me CHEER THEM ON and I voted GREEN.

How can a Green voter have any heart for UKIP, c'est bizarre...

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The question is, which of Labour and the Tories will be able to woo the UKIP vote back.

Whoever does the better job will probably win the election.

Or it could be a case of which party haemorrhages even more votes to UKIP , whoever controls the bleeding will probably win the election.

 

[Eeyore]

UKIP sounds like a splendid name for a sleeping pill.

'take a one UKIP half an hour before bedtime, then wake up in the morning, refreshed and ready to vent your anger at the world.'

 

[lawros left foot]

My worst nightmare is a Tory/UKIP coalition after the next election, goodbye NHS, goodbye social benefits, goodbye any restraint on the worst excesses of a right wing xenophobic government

 

[Eeyore]

My worst nightmare is a Tory/UKIP coalition after the next election, goodbye NHS, goodbye social benefits, goodbye any restraint on the worst excesses of a right wing xenophobic government

UKIP will not win a single seat at the next election.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

Despite all the hype UKIP are still tin-pot. Come next year we're be saying, What happened to UKIP?

bed wetting at it's best , give nibble a PM and console yourself
regards
DR

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

UKIP will not win a single seat at the next election.

Two or three is my guess.

60% of UKIP voters said up they also vote UKIP at the next election. Lots of votes, but as no PR, very, very few seats.

Who will the other 40% vote for? That will decode the election

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

UKIP will not win a single seat at the next election.

got your crystal ball out
regards
DR

 

[Don Quixote]

Which seats do they realistically have any chance in?

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

My worst nightmare is a Tory/UKIP coalition after the next election, goodbye NHS, goodbye social benefits, goodbye any restraint on the worst excesses of a right wing xenophobic government

The thing is you wouldn't be able to work out if a policy is originally a UKIP one or a Tory one

 

[lawros left foot]

UKIP will not win a single seat at the next election.

I hope you are right,but I can see them picking up a couple in Essex, and maybe one or two in somewhere like the Lancashire mill towns, they are much more organised than their BNP antecedents