Paul Henke v UKIP: Party's suspension of former Chairman of
UKIP in Scotland declared null and void and in breach of rules of membership.
By using this boxing parlance I don't mean The Chief is off to vote for
UKIP in upcoming bi-elections, more that Microsoft don't really have any other huge system - sellers to fall back on at present.
Of the 10 people invited to share their thoughts, three were clear that they would vote
Ukip in Thursday's byelection.
The calculus of this risk is informed by the likelihood of Labour losing votes and seats to the SNP in Scotland,
UKIP in the north of England and the Greens across the UK.
And this is the same argument across dozens of policy areas where the people we claim to represent have wildly different views, and indeed voting habits (more of the poorest social groups (43 %) voted Tory /
UKIP in 2015 than Labour (41 %)!)
Some Labour voters will vote for the BNP in areas where the BNP have a presence as a protest vote, as Tory voters voted for
UKIP in 1997 (sorry, Henry, but I was there knocking on doors).
The leader of
UKIP in the Assembly is to be announced later today, following a meeting of its members.
I know in Thurrock a fair amount of people who have not voted for years came out to vote for
UKIP in the European elections because one of the candidates was from a Thurrock village (amongst other reasons).
Sutton LB, which voted for
UKIP in 2014, could be close.
Councillors won / retained by
UKIP in today's elections (1031 candidates, currently has 19 councillors in total);
Diane James from Surrey joined
UKIP in 2010.
The 2013 by - election coincided with the rise of UKIP and saw the Liberal Democrats hold the seat with
UKIP in second place, but at the subsequent general election the seat fell to the Tories.
Take a look at the changes in betting odds for
UKIP in 2015.
10 % of otherwise tory voters won't vote for
UKIP in June - They might like the idea but these elections will be all about the 2 main parties with the BNP picking up a lot of ex-Labour votes in certain areas.
Backing for
Ukip in Clacton is at an astonishing 64 per cent, while Tory support has crashed by 33 points.
Almost everyone I talk to will vote
UKIP in the European Elections and for the Conservatives in a General Election....
Mark Reckless was elected as the Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood in the general election of 2010 but defected to
UKIP in September this year.
One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from
Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.
Neil Hamilton became leader of
UKIP in the assembly in dramatic circumstances.
For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went
Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.
Only 1.7 per cent of those polled were 2010 Labour who switched to vote
UKIP in 2015.
Neil Hamilton has been removed as leader of
UKIP in the Welsh Assembly after he lost of the support of most of the party's AMs.
Alan Sked founded the Anti-Federalist League in 1991 before renaming the party as
Ukip in 1993.
Of course by - elections are wholly different from general elections, but the result for
UKIP in Rochester, 271st in their list of target seats, hardly suggests that the Farage phenomenon, based largely on sentiment rather than policy, has lost momentum.
A far left Labour party creates a big opportunity for
UKIP in Labour home - grounds in the Midlands and North.
The hardening of the Tory position on Europe came amid fears at the highest levels of the party that the prime minister could be heading for a second successive byelection defeat at the hands of
Ukip in next month's byelection in Rochester and Strood that was triggered by the defection of Mark Reckless.
Galloway is the latest of a line that includes Alex Salmond of the SNP in last year's Scottish elections and independents (including a self - styled monkey) in mayoral contests, as well as the Greens, BNP and
UKIP in proportional - voting elections to the European Parliament and Greater London Assembly.
.@MichaelDugher was right about
UKIP in the last election.
RANDOM STAT: Just 24.2 % of people who voted
Ukip in 2015 intend to do so again.
John Short, the leader of
Ukip in Swindon, said the party had made «huge progress» in the town.
We certainly found a lot of Conservatives who were considering voting
UKIP in frustration at European red tape as much as the MPs» expenses scandal.
Their national vote share is down six points compared to last year, and, although there must be some people who voted
Ukip in the Euros and for another party in the locals, there must be a chance that the polls saying Ukip would win have got it wrong.
The Tories and Labour suffered today as voters turned to
Ukip in the local elections, with the two largest parties in Westminster losing control of councils as a result of gains for Nigel Farage's «people's army».
Moreover, if people are supporting
Ukip in such large numbers — even after the media's massed guns have been rattling at it for weeks — it is probably time to drop all the sneering and think about why.
Rumours that former Lib Dem MP Mike Hancock has lost his council seat to
UKIP in Portsmouth pic.twitter.com/kvTyd3sf 9q
WHAT IT FOUND: With Theresa May promising a Hard Brexit, the poll claimed just half (53 %) of those who said they'd vote
UKIP in February plan to now, with 30 % opting for the Tories.
Neil Hamilton, the leader of
Ukip in the Welsh Assembly, has said Nigel Farage should get a peerage for his «significant achievements».
He was disappointed with the media's coverage of
Ukip in Croydon, which he said had been «very partisan and left - leaning».
Michael Gove has said he is not worried about
Ukip in the crucial byelection in Rochester and Strood.
«The other effect of course of
UKIP in the campaign was I think there's little doubt that because of UKIP, Cameron was unable to form a majority government and, and do I feel guilty about that?
He said: «There will be a leadership election for the next leader of
Ukip in September and I will consider, over the course of this summer, whether to put forward my name to do that job again.»
Bridget Phillipson took 21,218 votes in the safe Labour seat of Houghton and Sunderland South, with
UKIP in second place with 8,280 votes.
[27][28] He was a founding member of
UKIP in 1993.
The Conservatives lose control of two councils in the South East following gains for Labour and a surge in support for
UKIP in the local elections.
Tory defector Mark Reckless is on course to win back his Commons seat for
Ukip in the upcoming by - election in Rochester and Strood, according to a new opinion poll.
Liberal Democrats have lost lost hundreds of local councillors, dropped behind
UKIP in some polls and lost their deposit at three Westminster by - elections.
Ukip will certainly lose some support; 36 % of those who voted
Ukip in the European elections are already planning to abandon the party in 2015.
2 years from now people won't be voting in whether someone was remain or leave, in fact many leave voters, in Stoke, be they ex labour or had voted
Ukip in 2015 ′ backed a Tory who almost came third who voted remain
I shall certainly be voting
UKIP in the Euro elections in 2009 now, and before anyone says that UKIP will not get the EU reformed, I'm not interested in reforming the EU; I want out.
David Cameron has said the Conservative Party will meet the threat from
UKIP in the South East head - on as it campaigns for a by - election in Rochester and Strood.