Thursday, October 9, 2014

Eurosceptic Wins Big

UKIP wins their first seat in UK House of Commons in a by-election.  The General Election is scheduled for May 7, 2015. 

Could this be the start of an outbreak of common sense somewhere in the world.  Please.  Pretty please.

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  1. An outbreak of common sense would be the most welcome outbreak of all.

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  2. Wow, this is FANTASTIC news. Congrats, and go UKIP! I somehow managed to miss news of this by-election altogether. Must be slipping....

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  3. Farage's rhetoric is certainly satisfying, and aspects of his platform are great.

    A couple points though:

    - this was a by-election, where the sitting MP defecting to UKIP had an established "brand" with his constituency.

    - the EU is imploding economically right now, spiraling into dysfunction. If this trajectory continues, then "Euroscepticism" will become official Tory policy (as well as simple self-preservation logic), and the Conservative party will simply co-opt the issue.

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    1. - this was a by-election, where the sitting MP defecting to UKIP had an established "brand" with his constituency

      This is true, however he defected from the Conservative Party who also ran a candidate. The "defector" received 21,113 votes while the Conservative received 8,709. That's a huge margin and the turnout was 51% which is high for a by-election. Obviously "name" and "brand" probably helped but I think the numbers add weight to the UKIP win.

      Plus there was a second by-election in a rock solid Labour constituency, where the Labour candidate almost lost to the UKIP candidate. The difference in votes was around 600, those numbers tell a tale as well.

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