Sentences with phrase «like ukip»

The rise of smaller parties like Ukip and the Greens — but their inability to gain decent representation in parliament despite surging support — could also be behind apparently increased dissatisfaction with the current electoral system, despite its retention at referendum four years ago.

Some might go to protest parties like Ukip.

Although the Greens, like UKIP, have no realistic prospect of forming a majority government in May, they have fallen into the trap of accepting the burden of proof expected of the main parties who do hope to.

The former Labour prime minister Tony Blair joined the inquest, saying: «It is right to be worried when a party like Ukip comes first in the European election, it would be foolish not to be.

there's already talk of Red - Kipers, where Paul Nuttal could appeal to the ex labour, on more than just Europe, but the ecomony if a Thatcherite party like Ukip could appeal to old labour who want bonds for the NHS or re distribution via tax, then labour will have ben destroyed, no tjust by Islington middle class students.

The danger of talking about Europe is that we give parties like UKIP the opportunity that has been enjoyed by the Greens over the last year.

Tory future MPs like Chris Heaton - Harris and Priti Patel are the way to counter Europe, not fringe explicitly pro-Labour groups like ukip.

«Personally, in current circumstances, I would be fairly relieved to see the more respectable minor parties - especially the Greens, but also non-racist right - wing anti-politics parties like Ukip or Libertas (however much I disagree with them) doing well in a «protest election» if it meant the BNP did not surge.»

It looks like UKIP will hold Clacton and win Thurrock because of support from Labour voters.

Political partys have continually claimed that partys like UKIP are «just protest votes» and the more they say it the more people vote for them.

Ukip leader Nuttall said earlier this week of May's speech: «Some of it did sound like a UKIP conference speech and the prime minister is now applying some of the things that we've been talking about for many, many years, so I would give her seven out of ten for this effort.»

The Green Party's success in 2010, especially in contrast with parties like UKIP and the BNP who won more votes but no seats, shows the importance of making every vote count by focusing on the areas where success is most likely.

Either we sit back and do nothing, like UKIP would like, or we actually try to change things for future generations.

So parties like Ukip must try to convince sceptical voters that they are a viable option in constituencies where they have no track record of success.

«I don't think you can have a party like Ukip without an MP if you don't have the Greens, who have got an MP,» Mr Cameron told BBC Breakfast.

And it is precisely this vacuity which has led to the rise of parties like Ukip and to a lesser extent the SNP.

Rather than abandon the working class to parties like UKIP or patronise them as ill - informed, Labour as a party which is both socialist and traditionalist, internationalist and patriotic can be their home.

If the opposition fails, it could be fringe parties like Ukip, looking ahead to the European elections in May 2014, who reap the biggest reward.

Jose Manuel Barroso's use of the phrase will be a form of vindication for prominent eurosceptics like Ukip's Nigel Farage or the Tories» Daniel Hannan, who he branded «eurosceptic - populist - extreme - nationalists».

By comparison with the last county council elections in 2009 it does look like UKIP gains were at the expense of the Conservatives.

I think a lot of people like Ukip.

Given the problems Britain is experiencing with alienation from political elites, the rise of «anti-politics» parties like UKIP, and the widespread perception amongst the public that the governing classes are «out of touch» — is imposing a new form of government on Greater Manchester without popular consent really a good idea?

Not exact matches

Like Trump, UKIP might just conclude that all the pain is worth it but they will need to be careful.

This anti-politically correct will also stand them in good stead when the unions come for UKIP if they look like seriously challenging Labour.

Opportunities like this — where the public are paying attention and most people will agree with UKIP — don't come around often.

Earlier this year Ukip's only female MEP quit the party after claiming that Nigel Farage «does not like women».

As Westminster watchers crowd round the train - wreck of Steven Woolfe's failed bid for Ukip leader little attention is being paid to the woman who now looks set to take the crown — and that's the way she will like it.

One Labour MP told PoliticsHome: «It's always been the big fear, that Ukip would end up being led by someone like Nuttall, a northerner from a working class background.

Firstly, it is only right to point out that UKIP, like almost all political parties, represents a coalition of different views.

In an article for The Telegraph, commentator Ed West has argued, against the views of Spectator blogger Alex Massie, that UKIP's critique of phenomena like multiculturalism and political correctness is entirely compatible with a liberal or libertarian outlook.

Another sign requesting no Ukip leaflets stated: «At times like this it makes me think of what my grandad used to do to help make Britain Great and that was shoot Nazi's [sic] and Fascists during the war and if I read any more of your gibberish I feel I may wish to do the same because however you try to dress it up that's basically what you are.»

One told PoliticsHome: «It's always been the big fear, that Ukip would end up being led by someone like Nuttall, a northerner from a working class background.

«I think the real significance of what's happened in UKIP since Nigel became a shock jock and moved on is that we've actually started to draw on a whole range of talents... If we have a broader range of UKIP players, like Suzanne Evans, like Paul Nuttall, like Patrick O'Flynn, we'll do much better than we have done».

Do we really think Ukip voters in northern industrial towns like the low - tax, pro-business message Ukip candidates — many of them former Tories — promote?

Ukip look like being a major factor in prolonging the dry spell next year.

What follows may be received by the man himself like advising a vegetarian to eat foie gras, but a politician who revels in the cheers of Lefty disciples needs to recognise he must convert Tory and Ukip voters.

Flint compared herself to the hugely outnumbered band of Spartans in the film 300 when talking about the onslaught from Ukip - turned - Tory voters that she and others like Gloria de Piero and even Dennis Skinner faced.

Also a lot of those who disapprove of the government on things like bailing out the Irish Republic will vote UKIP — don't forget that a lot of people disapprove of Cameron from his right...

The point is that Labour - > UKIP switchers hit us harder than many of us (including myself) expected, especially in places like Southampton Itchen.

Green supporters share with those of Ukip a certain populist disillusionment with the political mainstream (for example, three - quarters agree with the statement that «politicians don't care what people like me think»), but there is a crucial difference: they are much more likely to have a sense of political efficacy than Ukip's followers.

Thus they are strongly supported by parties like the Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the Greens and so, that often pile up millions of votes in FPTP contests but may win few or no seats, because they are less commonly or rarely the largest party in a given local area.

Nigel Farage said mass immigration was making parts of the country appear «unrecognisable» and like «a foreign land» at Ukip's spring conference on Friday.

«But like you computer said UKIP but I'm voting Conservative since Cameron fulfilled his pledge on the EPP.»

For these people, the Conservatives have settled on the message that however much they may like what Nigel has to say, the better UKIP do next May the more likely it is that Her Majesty will have to ask Ed Miliband to form a government.

And because each vote counts for so much more, mainstream parties contort themselves to look like the parties that are «stealing their votes» — just look at the disproportionate influence of Ukip.

John Rees - Evans has joined the ranks of Ukip members whose comments are attracting more attention than the party would like

She insisted it is the Tories who «look increasingly like they are desperately attempting to out - Ukip Ukip».

Like the rest of us, the space she dedicates to a Ukip victory shows how fascinating the prospect is for politics geeks.

Asked whether Carswell, who has publicly fallen out with the Ukip leader, should leave the party he replied: «He can do what he likes.

The Ukip donor told Radio 4's Today programme: «We're struggling at the moment, there's no point in denying it — I think I've backed something like two or three different leaders in the space of three months.