Sentences with phrase «class supporting ukip»

This certainly doesn't look like a simple case of the white working class supporting UKIP.

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It is safe Labour territory, but even here Ukip is expected to capitalise on strong support among working class voters in the C2DE category to come in second, ahead of the Conservatives.

More worrying still was the haemorrhaging of votes to UKIP and the stabilisation of working class support for the Conservatives.

But it is equally important to win support from SNP voters in Scotland and UKIP supporters in working class parts of England.

At present Labour is losing support to the SNP in Scotland, to UKIP in its English and Welsh heartlands and, in the light of Corbyn's half - hearted support for Remain, may well see the support of disappointed middle - class pro-Europeans shift towards the Liberal Democrats (who have pledged to go into any future election committed to reversing the decision to leave the European Union).

Employers (class 1.1), self - employed (4) and lower supervisory (5) and routine manual workers (7) have the highest levels of support to UKIP.

Certainly, Labour constituencies see fairly high levels of UKIP support (notably at the recent Heywood & Middleton by - election), suggesting there is credence to the argument that Labour is losing its disaffected traditional and typically working class voters to UKIP.

The idea that UKIP are picking up old Labour supporters is also not supported by evidence on the social class of their intended voters.

The «blue Labour» thinkers who have long recognised the threat Ukip posits to white working - class support will want a more socially conservative stance, particularly on immigration and Europe, but adopting such a position could put at risk the gains Labour have made with its «London core».

Let me suggest that this because the media uses a simple insulting formula that goes something like, Labour are a Working class party - The North is Working Class - UKIP are a Bit Racist - Racism is only a working class thing - therefor UKIP must have taken most of its support from Labclass party - The North is Working Class - UKIP are a Bit Racist - Racism is only a working class thing - therefor UKIP must have taken most of its support from LabClass - UKIP are a Bit Racist - Racism is only a working class thing - therefor UKIP must have taken most of its support from Labclass thing - therefor UKIP must have taken most of its support from Labour!.

Ukip is now building support in traditional working - class Labour areas.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

UKIP is clearly already proven to be a party capable of attracting a large working class base of support.

Its core support comes from a mix of financially insecure working - class men, who were traditionally loyal to Labour but who feel they have been «left behind» in modern Britain as mainstream parties chased the middle - class vote, and strategic Conservative sympathisers, who are keen to express hostility to the European Union but much less loyal to UKIP in general elections.

It took observers far longer than it should have to recognise that the bulk of Ukip's support was coming not from middle - class Tories in the Shires but the disillusioned working - classes who might have once voted Labour.

Bassetlaw MP John Mann said that white working class voters and trade unionists had already deserted the party for Ukip, because of Labour's support for immigration.

He argues convincingly that Blairism was predicated on Labour having a monopoly on working class support, but now that support has broken, partly to the SNP and partly to Ukip.

«Strategic defectors» are voters who support Ukip at European elections but return to the Conservatives at general elections: they are older, financially comfortable, middle - class men with Conservative sympathies, socially conservative Eurosceptics who are motivated principally by their desire to send a message to the Conservatives.

First, we found that locally Ukip really is gunning for Labour: targeting working - class areas where Labour is locally dominant in the hope of cementing support among blue - collar voters, and forcing Miliband to promise an EU referendum.

And the winner of last night's by - election in Rochester, UKIP's Mark Reckless, said the large number of Labour voters who switched their support to him showed «the radical tradition, which has stood and spoken for the working class, has found a new home in UKIP».

In his victory speech, Mark Reckless said the large number of Labour voters who switched their support to him showed «the radical tradition, which has stood and spoken for the working class, has found a new home in UKIP»