Usually the defection of councillors to UKIP has nothing much to do with policy
Farage: “I’m not sure where you got that from.” Neil: “From your website.”
The Council Tax rise in Kent gives UKIP an important opportunity – yet they seem much too inept to seize it.
Also: Police find ‘no evidence of criminality’ in Unite’s Falkirk emails; Ian S Smart sees Tory chance in SNP weakness; and Wales could lose £7m to English universities.
UKIP councillors in Lincolnshire don’t seem interested in policy but personal recriminations
It seems quite likely that UKIP will win the Euro Elections yet not take control of a single one of the councils holding elections the same day.
Anyone in Norfolk who voted for UKIP because they believed the Party was about lower Council Tax must be disappointed.
The question was debated on today’s Daily Politics. The Tories’ Tim Loughton replied that he’s quite relaxed about the possibility.
The author replies to Paul Goodman, arguing that the CountryB4Party campaign is practicable.
In nearly every constituency, if not all of them, the best way to keep Labour out is to vote Conservative.
We now need two swingometers: one that swings between red and yellow (Lab and Lib); and one between blue and purple (Con and ’kipper).
To win outright, they will need the votes of everyone who supported them last time, plus practically everyone who is even prepared to think about doing so next time.
Tories are cheerful, socialists gloomy, the Scots expect to vote No…and UKIP supporters expect England to be knocked out in the first round of the World Cup.