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Plastic Paddy
What the fuck are you on about? They'll replace him, probably with someone less obviously wanky.
3.5 million people have just voted for them but they're "nothing" without Farage?
Do us a favour.
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What the fuck are you on about? They'll replace him, probably with someone less obviously wanky.
3.5 million people have just voted for them but they're "nothing" without Farage?
Do us a favour.
When was the last time a third place party saw its support vanish between one general election and the next? You probably have to go back, ooh, hours.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
jesus
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Fucking hell, you are such a stupid cunt.
bi0boy
Power User
Straying into sermon territory at the end.
Just playing with the results map on the Graun website. One of the things you can display is in which constituency different parties have gained support. Labour, the Tories and the Kippers are showing gains scattered across much of the country - and noticeably big gains in the case of the Kippers - the Greens across a swathe of the south and a fair few places further north, Plaid Cwmru in much of Wales, the SNP (obviously) all across Scotland and the Lib Dems ... nowhere. Absolutely nowhere. In not a single constituency did they increase their share of the vote over 2010.
I assumed that the Lib Dems were buggered because the bulk of their support came from the centre-left and would defect to Labour or the Greens, which they have up to a point, but a fair number of their ex-voters - more than I expected - seem to have jumped into the Tory camp, presumably because if you're going to vote for a Tory party you might as well vote for the original and worst.
*edit* Greens, not Greenwich: that's what three hours' sleep does for my typing.
I assumed that the Lib Dems were buggered because the bulk of their support came from the centre-left and would defect to Labour or the Greens, which they have up to a point, but a fair number of their ex-voters - more than I expected - seem to have jumped into the Tory camp, presumably because if you're going to vote for a Tory party you might as well vote for the original and worst.
*edit* Greens, not Greenwich: that's what three hours' sleep does for my typing.
Really? Is it not factually correct? Miliband's resignation takes effect after the VE Day celebrations.
yeah it did a bit.
at least he didn't look on the verge of a nervous breakdown like Clegg or quit and then say he might come back like Farage.
TheHoodedClaw
acknowledging ur soup leg
Yes, the VE commemoration is a fucking "jolly". Twat.
Oh piss off you dozy twat.
editor
hiraethified
Name me three high-profile UKIP candidates that are instantly recognisable to the general public. Go on.
teqniq
DisMembered
Strapline in the Graun, I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great
Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great
editor
hiraethified
Hahaha.
Strapline in the Graun, I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great
What world do they live in?
Just when you think you've seen humanity at its lowest ebb...Strapline in the Graun, I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Good to see someone identifying and standing up for the real victim here. Note clegg also doing the same in his resignation, calling the disgust the electorate showed him and his party as.... unkind.Strapline in the Graun, I don't know whether to laugh or cry
Nick Clegg – the inoffensive ordinary guy who could have been great
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Well his deputy is Paul Nuttal but that's not the point. You had never heard of Farage before he founded UKIP had you?
The fact is that UKIP have made huge voting gains and anyone who dismisses them as 'nothing without Farage', is an idiot.
not-bono-ever
meh
Clegg will take the long walk into exile taken by failed politicians. He will pop up in some EU position in a years time with only £200k pa + expenses to console himself.
The worthless fuck
The worthless fuck
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
whatever world it is, we must burn it
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
Had you heard of Farage before he became leader in 2006?
bonfires made of boden catalogues
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Milliband giving it large about Labour being the party for social justice - what transparent bollocks. I've still got the poxy HoC headed notepaper with Fitzpatrick refusing to do anything about IDS's retrospective workfare legislation.
I can't think of a single noteworthy thing that Milliband has done. I'll remember his tenure as being a bland 5 years of doing nothing. He didn't even get round to the policies review he promised.
I can't think of a single noteworthy thing that Milliband has done. I'll remember his tenure as being a bland 5 years of doing nothing. He didn't even get round to the policies review he promised.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
So? Most people have a hard time recognising members of the cabinet and shadow cabinet. How many people would have recognised Sturgeon before the Indy Ref?
UKIP will face challenges in the coming months, the leadership is going to have to try and keep people on board after only limited electoral success and with the Tories better placed to fight them. They need to thread a path by which they can keep both sides of the party on side. But 3.8 million people didn't vote for them just because of Farage.
EDIT: And even if UKIP collapse, those voters won't just vanish into thin air, they and their concerns will still be here
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