UKIP win Clacton

[Milk]

So UKIP have won a By Election using a Tory defector by a substantial (>12,000) margin.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ut-ukips-new-mp-douglas-carswell-9786170.html

Are they the new kids on the block now or is this just circumstance?

Whichever way, they are going to take a lot of votes off the 3 main parties and likely to obliterate the Lib Dems

 

[Tramps_mate]

This may well be in the General Election thread...

 

[Milk]

This may well be in the General Election thread...

Except it keep wandering off on tangents.
I am interested in a specific UKIP one because now they have an MP, they are no longer a joke

 

[Bungle]

Have you been to Clacton? I'm fairly sure the UKIP rep just had to stand outside offering voters a free pack of cigarettes for their vote.

 

[Groucho]

I just don't like politicians

 

[Blue 1]

Political establishment ROCKED by election of white, privately educated free-marketeer.

 

[JDL]

More importantly is the fact the came a very close second to Labour in Heywood and Middleton, a previously safe Labour seat.

 

[Blue 1]

Didn't muck about, did they?

 

[The Cowboy]

It would be interesting to know whether it was pretty much a straight transfer of votes from Tory to UKIP in Clacton, ie the residents were backing Carswell or UKIP (obviously backing Carswell is backing UKIP, but were they voting to keep their present MP)

Love the spin Labour are putting on the Heywood result. 'We increased our share, we are awesome!' they scream. Until you look closer and see they lost something like 7,000 votes, and the turnout was something like sub-50%.

 

[roydo]

It would be interesting to know whether it was pretty much a straight transfer of votes from Tory to UKIP in Clacton, ie the residents were backing Carswell or UKIP (obviously backing Carswell is backing UKIP, but were they voting to keep their present MP)

Love the spin Labour are putting on the Heywood result. 'We increased our share, we are awesome!' they scream. Until you look closer and see they lost something like 7,000 votes, and the turnout was something like sub-50%.

Took votes off all 3, but mainly Conservative. Which as they held a large majority is not that surprising.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29549414

 

[Blue 1]

That Tory toff MP Douglas Carswell was useless. Beer-drinking, fag-smoking, man of the people Douglas Carswell will be much better.

 

[EFCNIK]

Goooood, goooood.

@Brownie

 

[JDL]

That Tory toff MP Douglas Carswell was useless. Beer-drinking, [Poor language removed]-smoking, man of the people Douglas Carswell will be much better.

You seem quite bitter about this. Who do you vote for?

 

[Goat]

Goooood, goooood.

@Brownie

Whatcha doing Nik?

 

[Blue 1]

Hahahah. Just realised the board self-censors the slang word for cigarette which in America is a perjorative word for homosexual males.