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I'd like to know what the migration figures are, to be honest. It's the oldest political trick in the book: give the punters someone else to blame for things, so I'd like to know if net migration figures really are as threatening as the likes of Farage (and, taking it further right, Nick...

Be fascinating to see how Caroline Lucas gets on at the next election. I don't live in Brighton so I know little of her activities. But have heard from a couple of people (hardly representative, I know) that she's a good MP, whatever her politics. That itself would probably be subject to endless...

Nope, you're probably right. But a lot of by election results are reversed when it comes to a general election, so even if UKIP managed to get themselves a seat somewhere mid term, they may end up losing it come the main event. The protest voters feel they've made their point, and go back to...

Completely agree that it's important for there to be different options out there, at least it makes people think, and, as you say, keeps the big political parties on their toes whenever they lose a by-election to, say, Colin Smithers (Keep Dingwall Hospital Maternity Unit Open Party) or...

Agreed. Parties like UKIP do make a small dent in things when it comes to council and European Parliamentary elections, and even the occasional by-election, because that's where people feel safe to make a cheeky little "protest vote", isn't it? Somewhere they perceive that it doesn't really...

But not a single seat at the last general election- when no overall majority proved that people could be swayed in their vote. And yet not a single UKIP seat was won, even as a protest vote.

Can anyone advise me of any other leaders whose political parties have absolutely no seats in Parliament who receive the same quantity of media coverage as Farage does?