Early Local Election results - UKIP smashing it

[TomandJerry]

Ah, here we go – there's a seat for the Lib Dems, in Swindon's Eastcott ward

 

[Bry Nylon]

As a Politics and Economics graduate I LOVE election nights. Usually General Elections, but this local / euro election is fascinating and the UKIP element brings a whole new dynamic that I have never experienced before, especially with a GE only 12 months away. Amazing how one man with a fag and a pint is giving the established parties a real kick up the arse.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Although I must say everyone who votes UKIP IS NOT a moron, they have concerns and if people in middle class Brighton and Hove dismiss them as moronic they don't understand the uk as a whole.

It's equally wrong to interpret a strong vote for UKIP in some parts of the country as the first evidence of the collapse of the Tories. There are several major British cities where Tory councillors have been practically an extinct species for years.

 

[TomandJerry]

" Perhaps the voters of Croydon did not enjoy the Ukip carnival:

Lab sources saying UKIP affecting all 3 parties, Lab strong in London esp Tower Hamlets & Croydon"

 

[TomandJerry]

Ukip wins a seat in Basildon

 

[Bry Nylon]

" Perhaps the voters of Croydon did not enjoy the Ukip carnival:

Lab sources saying UKIP affecting all 3 parties, Lab strong in London esp Tower Hamlets & Croydon"

To be fair, Tower Hamlets is bent as fvck. As someone who lived in Bethnal Green and other parts of the East End for many years I feel qualified to make that claim.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Ukip wins a seat in Basildon

Two seats in Basildon - one won from the Tories, one won from the Lib Dems.

 

[TomandJerry]

Well I'm glad I'm not him

 

[Eeyore]

I've done a brief blog about voting, for those still up..

http://brightonlines.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/election-protocol/

 

[TomandJerry]

I've done a brief blog about voting, for those still up..

http://brightonlines.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/election-protocol/

I'll give it a quick read, will try stay up all night watching this

 

[Blackadder]

Bearing in mind that Nissan is based in Sunderland, and they export most of their cars to the EU, I am surprised that UKIP won 24% of the vote in Sunderland.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

It's equally wrong to interpret a strong vote for UKIP in some parts of the country as the first evidence of the collapse of the Tories. There are several major British cities where Tory councillors have been practically an extinct species for years.

Granted, your talking about towns up north like Wigan where they they could put a donkey in and they would still vote labour, however if they have a protest vote against labour...... what's that say about the locals.....

I get what your saying, in the big picture etc, but we as country are not that stupid to vote in a general election for UKIP to win. The media will rip them to shreds from now on in, as the political powers with friends will see it happens.

 

[portlock seagull]

The Euro results won't be known until Sunday though - this is local politics and despite swing towards UKIP, no one really believes they'll make real headway next years do they? though must admit if UKIP do well it's astonishing given the own goals and outright media hostility towards them especially the BBC in recent weeks. Perhaps our media and political elite really are out of touch with popular feeling. Equally anyone who dismisses them on grounds of a protest vote because they appear to be rising like labour in the early 20th century. Interesting night...and how are the Christian socialist English defence say no to foreign food party doing? Anyone else see this party on their ballot form too?

 

[TomandJerry]

Speedy Sunderland is done and dusted: Labour holds the council with 21 seats; Conservatives have three, independents (and mayor-ouster) one.

 

[TomandJerry]

"UKIP rejects pact talk

UKIP chairman Steve Crowther has said it is "all too late" for other parties to suggest a pact with his own. His members are not Conservatives who must be "brought back from the naughty step", he adds."

Atleast UKIP have balls!

 

[TomandJerry]

The initial two results from Hull are similar to those in Sunderland with UKIP winning 28% of the vote in both cases.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

A UKIP councillor in South Tyneside has lost his seat to Labour. That's what happens when voters realise just how hopeless some UKIP councillors are.

 

[Bry Nylon]

The initial two results from Hull are similar to those in Sunderland with UKIP winning 28% of the vote in both cases.

This is unprecedented in UK politics. UKIP are essentially a one man party and somehow Farage has resonated with the public in a way that the huge Party machines of Con, Lab and Lib Dem have failed to do. Unprecedented.

What happens next?

 

[TomandJerry]

This is unprecedented in UK politics. UKIP are essentially a one man party and somehow Farage has resonated with the public in a way that the huge Party machines of Con, Lab and Lib Dem have failed to do. Unprecedented.

What happens next?

"Labour MP for Streatham Chuka Umunna says British politics has entered a four-party era"

 

[portlock seagull]

This is unprecedented in UK politics. UKIP are essentially a one man party and somehow Farage has resonated with the public in a way that the huge Party machines of Con, Lab and Lib Dem have failed to do. Unprecedented.

What happens next?

England win the World Cup and Scotland overwhelmingly votes to leave the union in history's greatest hissy fit of all time?