Friday, May 3, 2013
UKIP party gains in UK mid term elections, David Cameron's so-called conservatives humiliated, 'the biggest protest vote in British history'
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Update, more reactions to UKIP advances in UK mid-term elections, 5/3/13, "Newsbytes: Climate Sceptics Win Rocks Britain’s Political Landscape," WUWT. Commenter John Law: "On the contrary, the UKIP policy is the Green policy. It intends to stop the destruction of much of the beautiful British countryside and seascapes and instead develop clean natural gas and nuclear energy and ironically produce a real and large reduction in CO2 generation."
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"YouGov pollster Anthony Wells said of the council polls: “We are looking at the biggest ever protest vote in a local election.” Full results will be known this afternoon."
5/3/13, "Clown prince, UKIP 2nd in by-election as Farage leads charge," The Sun UK, by Tom Newton Dunn
"UKIP chief Nigel Farage’s “clowns” were today ready to enjoy the last laugh after the biggest protest vote in British history.
A wave of support in yesterday’s council elections put the anti-EU party on course to take up to a THIRD of all votes in some battlegrounds.
An early indication of their strength came last night in the South Shields Parliamentary by-election. Labour held the seat — but UKIP came second with 5,988 votes.
Their slice of the vote in the local elections, meanwhile, looked set to top 20 per cent.
That would smash the previous best for a party outside Westminster’s big three — UKIP’s 16.5 per cent in the 2009 Euro elections.
Early council results suggested UKIP were on course to win over 100 seats.
It follows a week in which the party were branded “clowns”, “fruitcakes”, and “loonies” by a raft of senior Tories. The onslaught looks only to have boosted the party’s popularity among disenchanted voters.
A potential 18 million went to the polls to elect 2,300 councillors across 35 local authorities in England and Wales.
PM David Cameron’s Tories expect a heavy drubbing, losing as many as 600 of their 1,485 seats — many in their traditional heartlands.
A senior source admitted: “We’re fighting from an all-time high in 2009 so it was always going to be hard.”
The Lib Dems fear coming a humiliating fourth, losing 130 of their 493 seats.
Labour’s poor showing in the South East looks set to continue, with under-fire leader Ed Miliband unlikely to make any significant inroads.
In South Shields, Labour’s Emma Lewell-Buck beat UKIP’s Richard Elvin into second place in the fight for the MP’s seat vacated by ex-Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Labour won with 12,493 votes, with UKIP’s 5,988 giving them 24 per cent of the vote. The third-placed Tories polled 2,857 and the Lib Dems were a dismal seventh with just 352. Turnout was 39.3 per cent, South Tyneside council said.
A UKIP spokesman said: “We’ve been getting the most phenomenally positive res-ponse on the streets.”
YouGov pollster Anthony Wells said of the council polls: “We are looking at the biggest ever protest vote in a local election.” Full results will be known this afternoon."
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5/3/13, "Local elections: UKIP makes gains as Tories defend council strongholds," BBC
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5/3/13, "Local elections: Tories in civil war as Ukip glory puts David Cameron under pressure," UK Independent, Andrew Grice
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