Sentences with phrase «ukip supporters»

Through a combination of focus groups and polling, we were aware that the people we wanted to reach were in particular demographic categories, basically «between 35 - 55, outside London and Scotland, excluding UKIP supporters and associated characteristics, and some other criteria».

On Twitter at the moment the hashtag #ThanetRigged is gaining popularity after some UKIP supporters appear to be suggesting that Nigel Farage missing out on his chance to become MP of South Thanet involved some sort of foul play.

Labour MP Liz McInnes, elected just 617 votes ahead of Ukip was jeered by Ukip supporters as she made her victory speech last night.

Just 12 per cent of all voters are satisfied with the handling of immigration, falling to just one per cent of Ukip supporters

At today's count UKIP supporters jokingly offered to have a whip round to cover the Lib Dems lost deposit.

In contrast, Paul Routledge on the Prospect website describes northern UKIP supporters speaking of Nigel Farage with clearly authentic warmth.

It is the issue that opinion polls and focus groups suggest resonates most with UKIP supporters.

The Conservatives can tilt authoritarian - nationalist to try and get UKIP supporters back on board, knowing Labour poses no threat to its centrist supporters.

The large majority of those who have changed their views have become more worried — the figure is 97 per cent among Ukip supporters, 90 per cent of Conservatives and 80 per cent of Labour supporters.

Some 57 per cent of Ukip supporters have changed their views since 2010, compared with 44 per cent of Conservatives and 39 per cent of Labour supporters.

Speaking after the result, Ms Innes was booed by Ukip supporters, who lost by on 617 votes, as she declared that only Labour would protect the NHS.

UKIP supporters are in many respects not traditional Conservatives - they are more working class and more disaffected from mainstream politics than typical Tory voters.

Research has shown that UKIP supporters believe big business takes advantage of ordinary people and they strongly agree there is one law for the rich and one for the poor.

To brand Farage a Fascist or to say that all UKIP supporters are bigoted nutters misses the most integral issue of the Rochester and Strood by - election, and it was not immigration.

And will he back the view of his fellow party members who warned Ukip supporters who have boards up in their garden that they must be taken down because, «They're our houses, they're council houses».

McInnes was loudly heckled by Ukip supporters as she attempted to deliver her victory speech.

Before the European polls, 62 % of female Ukip supporters planned to stay loyal but that is down to 53 %, a drop of nine points (men dropped two points to 51 %).

Ukip leader Niger Farage invites Ukip supporters from a variety of ethnic backgrounds to display the party's self - proclaimed multi-cultural acceptance

Politically, Tory and Ukip supporters (39 % and 36 %) are more favourable toward an interest rate increase than Labour and Lib Dem voters (23 % and 22 %).

The fact that he posts stupid «straw man» allegations easily demolished by UKIP supporters adds credence to the theory that he is a UKIP agent provocateur

But we also see that UKIP supporters are, in fact, marginally to the left of centre — slightly to the left of Liberal Democrat supporters.

Apologies to any swivel eyed UKIP supporters that I may have offended by my past posts, and of course your pressure group does serve some purpose in highlighting the excesses of Brussels.

Following the comments made by Blue Labour leader David Cameron yesterday (4.4.06), suggesting that UKIP supporters are «closet racists», UKIP Leader Roger Knapman MEP has published the contents of the letter he has written to Mr Cameron asking him to apologise.

Only 13 % of Ukip supporters said they were worried by the EU.

Now the Survation poll suggests a clear majority of 57 % of Ukip supporters will back Carswell because they prefer his new party.

New research from Facebook has found that Conservative supporters are often fans of Channel 4 comedy The Inbetweeners, while Ukip supporters prefer to watch Mrs Brown's Boys.

Instead immigration emerged as the dominant problem for Clacton's Ukip supporters, 47 % of which identified the issue as their main concern.

Finally, while we often hear about Farage's southern strongholds, it is UKIP supporters in the North East and North West who express the greatest loyalty to his party; in both of these two northern regions, 70 % of UKIP supporters indicate that they will hold with the party in a general election.

Farage told the Observer yesterday that the initial reaction among Ukip supporters to the meagre parliamentary reward of their vote went beyond despair.

Such alternative outcomes are articulated in a palpable sense of marginalisation among Ukip supporters on the streets of Margate.

David Cameron betrayed anxiety about the coincidence — and its impact on potential Ukip supporters opposed to overseas aid or sceptical of climate change — by refusing to say how much Britain is likely to offer and stressing the funding would come from existing government funds.

Unsurprisingly, only 3 % of Ukip supporters want to stay in the EU.

To compound the confusion, Labour appears to have been badly damaged by the behaviour of former Lib Dem voters and Ukip supporters, which didn't match Miliband's game plan for the election.

But for Ukip supporters this was the other way round, with the European elections seen as more important than the world's biggest sporting event.

Speaking on Sky News, Ken Clarke risked angering Ukip supporters by saying many of them were «closet racists».

Leadsom also faced tricky questions about the high numbers of Ukip supporters backing her campaign — and she raised many eyebrows when she would not say whether Nigel Farage would be part of her Brexit negotiating team.

Each of the measures are intended to seduce back Ukip supporters to the fold and keep Cameron's backbenchers in line at least until polling day.

A majority of those who backed the Conservative in 2015 voted to leave the EU (58 %), as did more than 19 out of 20 UKIP supporters.

There is much debate about whether the Conservative pledge to hold an in / out referendum on the EU will win votes from UKIP, or whether UKIP supporters are more concerned with other issues such as immigration.

Fail to do this and UKIP supporters, including one - time Labour ones, will reluctantly vote Tory in the vain hope this will give them a say.

And that view doesn't command over two - thirds support from UKIP supporters, whereas the opposite one does command over two - thirds support from voters of the other parties.

Among UKIP supporters 89 % are satisfied and just 3 % are dissatisfied.

While Conservative and Labour supporters equally back their man, Liberal Democrats lean towards Labour's Ed Balls (49 % to 27 % for Mr Osborne) while UKIP supporters break towards George Osborne (46 % to 25 % for Mr Balls).

Most current UKIP supporters (and SNP supporters) have previously voted Labour, Lib Dem or Conservative (over two thirds according to AW's churn analysis) and, since a little under half of them are not firmly committed to UKIP (Ashcroft's poll) I contend that it is not unreasonable to theorise that some may do so again in May.

Ford and Goodwin point out that UKIP supporters (unlike their activists) are more working class than those of any other party.

At these local elections, the Conservatives benefitted from this restructuring of UKIP supporters, gaining Basildon, bringing Dudley to an even split with Labour and almost decimating Labour's leads in North - East Lincolnshire and Nuneaton and Bedworth — all of which were heavily Leave - voting areas.

But in addition to being disproportionately working class, UKIP supporters are particularly likely to believe that there is one law for the rich, and another for the poor, and to believe that the gap between the two is too wide.

Richard Howitt, the Labour MEP for the East of England, has written an article for the New Statesman today about the abuse he has received at the hands of Ukip supporters after highlighting some of the things party figures have said about the disabled.

We've taken a close look at UKIP supporters in this report.

As many as 60 % of «early» Ukip supporters voted Conservative in 2010.