Sentences with phrase «for ukip»

«How helpful was it that Paul Oakley, your general secretary, described it as the Black Death for UKIP?»

Mr Cameron's attempt to strike back at Farage by arguing that a vote for Ukip will make it easier for Ed Miliband to become Prime Minister is having no effect on Ukip's support

Asked whether the threat of UKIP could cause Plaid to lose their only seat in the European Parliament, Ms Wood said that choosing to vote for UKIP at the forthcoming elections would mean «a dangerous future» for Wales and that it was important to choose a party like them who wanted to remain part of the EU.

Conservative defector Mark Reckless has rejected charges he acted in bad faith in leaving the party for Ukip.

But he said the narrower - than - predicted margin of victory for UKIP meant Tory candidate Kelly Tolhurst was well - placed to win back the seat for the Tories in the General Election on May 7.

Mark Reckless has wasted no time in returning to the Commons, arriving in Westminster just hours after his victory in the Rochester and Strood by - election for UKIP.

The Conservatives have surged to sit alongside Labour in the polls for the first time in nearly 18 months, largely owing to a sharp fall in support for Ukip, according to the latest ICM monthly poll for the Guardian.

Thus anyone wavering will think, «It's worth voting for UKIP, they can win this time» whereas with FTTP as used for Westminster they will be lucky to hold Castle Point and in a marginal seat such as Reading West if I want to unseat Labour MP Martin Salter I will have to vote Tory as the UKIP candidate will be very lucky to make 4 figures.

ICM's telephone poll last month showed a strong Labour lead of seven points, but this month the Tories are benefiting from the continuing collapse in support for Ukip, down from 18 % in May — just after its local election success — to 12 % in June and now just 7 %.

George Osborne warned that those who had deserted the Tories for Ukip would have to «live with the consequences for years» if they failed to switch back to the Tories.

«I've got white working - class constituents who've always voted Labour, but they won't be voting for Miliband but for Ukip, because they feel he couldn't care less about them,» a backbencher said.

That produces a net — 1 for the Ukip leader in the week of the Clacton - on - Sea byelection.

It won't be easy for Ukip to overturn that.

A third of voters in 40 marginal seats would consider voting for Ukip at the next general election but over half said they would next cast their ballot for the eurosceptic party, a new ComRes poll for ITV News suggests.

That a split in the party has already happened was evident not just in Douglas Carswell's departing his safe Tory seat in Clacton for Ukip, possibly turning it into a safe Ukip seat in the process.

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.

As for UKIP, while it only won one seat, it gained a substantial number of votes.

A far left Labour party creates a big opportunity for UKIP in Labour home - grounds in the Midlands and North.

The most popular is for Ukip to become the working class party, representing an alternative to Labour in the north of England.

In perhaps 8 to 12 of these seats you could sensibly argue that if there hadn't been a UKIP candidate then the Tory candidate would have won given that they were the most Eurosceptic alternative choice for UKIP voters.

And although some of those who may have left us for Ukip, or still vote Labour due to having a Blairite EU sceptic MP, John Mann, Simon Dankzuc and Frank Field, could be attracted to voting for a new Merged Moderate / Libdem party, would any such party ever attract those who now vote Conservative, that Blue Labour has so cleverly targeted.

(1,567 votes for Ukip to Lab's 1,528)

The new polling, commissioned by the former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, found that only a quarter of those considering voting for Ukip list Europe as one of the top three issues facing Britain.

The beneficiaries seem to be the smaller parties, with the «other» parties up to 14 %, the highest level recorded by Populus since the election, including 4 % for the Green party and 2 % for UKIP.

«Tories in Buckingham will be free to vote for Nigel Farage but CCHQ worries about publicity coup for UKIP Main A Conservative Government would prioritise tackling the excesses of public sector pensions»

I don't know what EF do for UKIP, but one common strategy is to adjust the UKIP vote according to the voting pattern at the 2014 European Parliament elections.

Cheer for Ukip; gloom for the Lib Dems:

In Finchley and Golders Green, long - time Liberal Democrat supporter Lee Glover said he had turned against the party to vote for UKIP, after the Lib Dems joined the Tories in government.

This is the highest «none of the above» vote since the time of the 2009 European elections, when successes for UKIP, the BNP and the Greens in that proportional - voting contest transferred briefly into well - above - average general election voting intentions.

He has served as a Rhayader town councillor and Powys county councillor and was a candidate for UKIP at the Ceredigion by - election in 2000, the 2005 general election and 2007 Welsh assembly election.

When we were canvassing nobody was saying they were for Ukip because its still perhaps a little embarrassing,» he said.

«But we now must win the peace and the only mechanism to put pressure on the government... is for Ukip to be healthy and for Ukip to be strong.»

Now if we are driven into voting for UKIP, which does still espouse many Traditional Tory Policies, is unequivocal on a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty and which has eschewed all the Eco-rubbish which has beguiled the other political parties such as New Labour, New Conservative and the Lib Dems, this may not win any seats for UKIP at the next General Election, indeed they will be lucky to hold onto Bob Spink's seat at Castle Point under FPTP.

David Cameron said «further action» is needed to establish more effective control of migration as he visited Rochester - the constituency where Tory defector Mark Reckless will stand for Ukip.

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.

Btw - did conservativehome do a poll to find out how many conservative voters, if not members, actually voted for UKIP at the last Euro poll?

The leader claimed «quite a few» councillors elected for UKIP had since left the party when asked why that party appeared to be gaining protest votes.

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.

[9] After unsuccessfully campaigning in European and Westminster parliamentary elections for UKIP since 1994, he was elected MEP for South East England in the 1999 European Parliament election.

UKIP and the Greens saw their best - ever results in terms of vote share (7 % for the Greens and 5 % for UKIP), but whilst UKIP gained 12 seats, the Greens gained just 2.

Maybe a good time for UKIP to get on with the show as well.

But it is not all good news for Ukip.

Meanwhile, support among Lib Dem voters for Ukip has increased from 11 % to 13 %, providing further evidence that Ukip is possibly beginning to attract the protest element of the Lib Dem base.

It also suggests that the selection of the older, white male, Roger Helmer, as its candidate in Newark is a lost opportunity for Ukip.

Many Conservatives vote for UKIP at European elections because it's a good way of putting pressure on their own party to become more eurosceptical.

Browne lost and has subsequently stood for UKIP in varous elections.

Note also that, judging from the tables, ComRes have switched over to prompting for UKIP in their main voting intention question in this poll — as with their last national poll, it does not seem to have had a major effect (UPDATE — I think this is because ComRes have changed turnout weightings, so that there is a tighter turnout filter for the Greens and UKIP than for the main parties).

Dan Hannan says he is not joining friends Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless, who have left the Tories for UKIP.

The news comes after a chaotic few days for Ukip, which saw Kerry Smith quit as a candidate in a top target seat after being forced to apologise for a series of offensive comments.

Even more voted for Ukip and in many cases they too were expressing hostility to elite economics.