Sentences with phrase «ukip do»

The thrust of the argument is that UKIP do not have to win a single seat at the next election in order to inflict serious damage on Tory candidates in marginal seats.

I suppose all we can reasonably conclude is that UKIP don't look like they are about to sweep the board across these seats, it's impossible to tell from this poll whether or not they are in a stronger position in a minority of them.

And Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: «Ukip do not speak for Britain and their brand of reactionary, divisive politics threatens the character and cohesion of our society.

For the smaller parties, the relationship is less strong though the Lib Dems are closest to the Conservatives whilst the Greens do best and UKIP do worst in areas with few car owning households.

Though for most normal people the event will go all but unnoticed, one question will preoccupy the political class: how well will UKIP do, and at what cost to the Conservatives?

(Note that UKIP don't appear, as there's practically no chance of them winning more seats than the DUP.)

How well will UKIP do?

For these people, the Conservatives have settled on the message that however much they may like what Nigel has to say, the better UKIP do next May the more likely it is that Her Majesty will have to ask Ed Miliband to form a government.

UKIP do not appear because they are only expected to get four seats and I have assumed that a deal involving both UKIP and LD would be too difficult.

If Ukip don't quickly smarten up their image, the same could very easily happen to them.

With 23 % on the PNS, and 147 seats, UKIP did shockingly well in this year's local elections.

UKIP did extraordinarily well in yesterday's local elections, securing a projected national share of the vote of 23 %.

The socio - demographic profile of the places where UKIP did well also suggests that it took more new votes from people who would otherwise have voted Labour this year.

How are UKIP doing in the polls?

Actually, Ukip did top the poll there.

UKIP did much better than I expected.

Also UKIP did not take that many votes from Labour either..

In the general election, UKIP dropout is likely to help the Conservatives a little in those seats where UKIP did well last time, but in most places the dropout effect may well be negligible.

The swings from both Labour and the Liberal Democrats to the Conservatives were much bigger where UKIP did well last time, but UKIP dropped out more often where they did worse.

Meanwhile Ukip did see its own vote badly squeezed in Copeland, suffering a drop of nine points, the party's worst byelection performance yet in this parliament.

Obviously, we didn't get the numbers that Ukip did.

Ukip does not have any policies now, because it has ripped up it manifesto.

Ukip did not win a single seat in Wales.

Ukip did gain at least 20 English council seats.

And, while Ukip did indeed attract more former Labour voters during the later New Labour years, they have won a substantially higher proportion of Tory voters since the coalition came to power.

The SNP did it with Scottish independence, Ukip did it with an EU exit and Ed Miliband did it with his focus on inequality.

Forget the six party politics crap, 2015 is basically a repeat of 2010 (with the SNP and UKIP doing better than 5 years ago).

A couple of the polls were just the figures from previous Ashcroft polls that showed UKIP doing well, but three are Survation polls for UKIP that we haven't seen before.

UKIP did not fight the seat in that election but the party soundly trounced the Tories in the European Parliamentary elections this year.

Because Ukip did not contest the constituency at the last election in 2010, it is not possible to calculate any swing from the Tories that could give a clue to impact on the national political map.

TP's very own Dan Hodges finally streaked down Whitehall today - three years after promising to do so if Ukip did well at the last election.

UKIP and Labour have made the biggest gains in Thursday's local elections in England - although UKIP doesn't control any councils.

Ukip didn't want us to come out of Europe just so they could let in more people from Pakistan, Johnson mocked to great effect.

UKIP does have reason to be optimistic.

The trajectory the narrative predicts is clear: UKIP does well in May's European and (importantly) local elections, confirming its ability to translate opinion polls into votes and seats.

UKIP did not squander the breakthrough in 2004.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said Ukip did not speak on behalf of the 52 % of Britons who voted to leave the European Union.

Other areas where Ukip is building on prior activism include Adur, Dudley, Lincoln, Newcastle - under - Lyme, North East Lincolnshire, Plymouth, Rotherham, Sefton and Wirral, which are also areas (or close to areas) where Ukip did well in 2013.

In 2010, Ukip did not put forward more than 15 candidates in any Tory - held council area, but this year will stand at least this many in 20 Tory - held areas.

«Some of the so - called strategists at the top of the Labour party think Ukip doing well is good news because it will damage Cameron.

I was amazed that UKIP did better in Glasgow than in Edinburgh given that the Conservatives are stronger in the latter.

Ukip didn't do well in London.

In 2008 the Greens and BNP managed this, in 2004 the Greens and UKIP did.

Yet, just as Ukip did a little worse than some predictions, so the others suffered less badly than first appeared.

This all came about as a result of UKIP doing increasingly well in the first half of the second decade of the century, in all elections.

«What Ukip does is it's a bit anti-foreigner, it's a bit anti-European, so it becomes another way in which people can express their anger about the changing nature of their community.»

Ukip didn't field anyone against Reckless in 2010 because of his strong Eurosceptic credentials.

Linking with the above, showing that winning former Labour voters back from UKIP didn't and doesn't require making concessions to the right.

She hailed the result in Derby, where the party unseated the Labour council leader, adding, in a reference to Brexit: «If UKIP does crumble I think you could still arguably make the case that it's been one of the most successful political parties in history.»

People here who switched from Tory to UKIP done so as they do not like the Notting Hill set.