Sentences with phrase «about ukip»

But psephology alone is surely only half the story because scratch the surface of the assumptions about UKIP and there are some others bout who votes UKIP and why.

Not a disaster; they don't have to win or even do well in seats like this, but a tiny increase is unimpressive, and the party should start worrying about UKIP taking protest votes which might otherwise come their way.

Again, we can't be certain why — Paul Nuttall obviously had a difficult campaign and anecdotally Ukip's ground game was poor, but there are also wider questions about Ukip's viability now Brexit has been adopted by the Conservatives and without Farage at their helm.

after both Labour and Conservatives settle down to normal politics after getting a drubbing from the euroskeptic public who should know better but don't, and we get the Euro Elections out of the way, and forget about UKIP.

Everyone in Westminster is talking about UKIP.

.@MichaelDugher was right about UKIP in the last election.

My Times colleague Sam Coates has this to say about Douglas Alexander's point about Ukip's rise potentially helping Labour.

Inevitably the first question is about Ukip and racism.

Michael Gove has said he is not worried about Ukip in the crucial byelection in Rochester and Strood.

Don't think about Ukip forming the government in 2015 but if we continue at anything like our current progress, who knows?

But I do not believe that the issue of Europe is solely about UKIP, although they have seen big gains as a result of this issue.

He said of the party's previous «fruitcakes» claims about UKIP: «I don't think it ever makes sense to abuse, or be rude, about people who vote for other parties.»

The second message is that the anti-Ukip campaign appears to have had no significant effect on how the British public feels about Ukip or Farage.

Its beyond me why this site bothers so much about UKIP and the BNP.

«You only need to know one thing about UKIP's new leader, Paul Nuttall: he wants privatisation in the NHS.

The closer we got to the general elections, the less we heard about UKIP.

He said the party could not be complacent about Ukip's appeal.

Obviously what he said about UKIP will have effects that depend on the audience.

Take it as a compliment, clearly the Conservative hight command has some concerns about the UKIP vote and whilst unwilling to have much in the way of policies on the EU, it seeks to shore up its vote with a smear campaign.

«People often talk about Ukip having halted (David) Cameron's modernisation programme, but I think it's also interesting to reflect on how Ukip has impacted on the Labour party.

Clegg said the Conservatives are in such «a total lather about Ukip» that they are even «bizarrely tearing up their own homework» as their own former prime minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the formation of the common market.

In keeping with the Tory backbencher's own good breeding, his advice was that his party «should be enormously polite about UKIP» and that it should try to understand their virtues as well as their vices.

While joking that he wouldn't «be rude about UKIP, statesmen every one!»

«What is it about Ukip that makes it racist for us to talk about migration, but not the other parties?

The new Leader of UKIP should bypass the vanity of such people and make big decisions about UKIP's future via direct polling of the membership.

I think it is time we levelled with people about Ukip.

It would be «foolish» if Britain's main parties did not worry about Ukip topping a national election in Britain, Tony Blair has said.

But this year has not all been about UKIP.

When thinking about Ukip, those around Ed Miliband must think beyond the next 12 months to a time when Labour may be in power with a small majority, or as part of a coalition.

The result shows Labour was right to be worried about the UKIP threat.

Here are the figures when we asked about UKIP, showing the responses of all electors, and those of people who currently say they would vote Tory:

So is the argument about UKIP stealing core Labour voters spurious?

We've been doing an analysis of BBC broadcasting in Scotland over this month, four - times as many broadcasts about UKIP than the SNP,» he said.

After strong performances in the European and local elections and then two sensational by - election victories there was a real buzz about UKIP.

There is a strong sense of complacency — about Ukip being a gift which splits the Tory vote, or being able to coast to power on 35 % of the vote.

She is sceptical about Ukip.

«I'm not really clear about Ukip's defence policy at the moment.

Not exact matches

John Glenn's been speaking about the decision by his former colleague - Douglas Carswell - to join UKIP.

He asks some nonsense about the weather in his constituency designed to raise the Ukip weather lunatic.

As regards (a), the trigger for the referendum was the high level of support for UKIP, most of which represented anxiety about immigration, and the Tories clearly wanted these voters on board.

The great struggle on the doorstep faced by Ukip voters is not about the ins and outs of VAT, or government borrowing, or even immigration.

«Not for a moment am I trying to out - Ukip Ukip, but it's about a fair, reasonable system of immigration which makes it work more effectively for our country than it has done previously.

«If you get Ukip in county hall, we can make a fuss about it.»

So much for the idea that Ukip only cares about slashing immigration and international aid.

Has Farage approached her about working with UKIP?

UKIP's rise post-2004 has made many politicians nervous about seeming too pro-EU for fear of losing core supporters.

Similarly, the Ukip donor and Leave.EU founder, Arron Banks, said Rogers had been «far too much of a pessimist» about Brexit.

From Fox News security «expert» Steve Emerson to Ukip leader Nigel Farage, the right has seized on a dangerous myth about Muslim no - go zones and used it to advance the culture wars

With the Tories» pushing a regional industrial strategy hard, UKIP need to have something to say about regenerating the former industrial heartlands of the country.

But the focus this afternoon was on Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom, who was attending an event on the advancement of women in politics when two female party members joked that they did not clean behind the fridge — a reference to his comments about where women belong.