UKIP a one trick Pony

Dcdrac said:
I wander if sky news are becoming like faux news?

Ukip have got 3.9 % of council seats even the BNP got 6% last time.
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Really?

Could you tell me what you mean by "last time".

I looked at Wikipedia for the local elections in 2013:

Overall, in England, the Conservatives saw 1116 councillors elected (down 335), Labour 538 (up 291), the Liberal Democrats 352 (down 124), independents 165 (up 24), UKIP 147 (up 139), the Greens 22 (up 5), Residents Associations 12 (up 2), Mebyon Kernow 4 (up 1), the Liberal Party 3 (up 1) and Independent Community and Health Concern 2 (no change). The BNP won no seats (down 3).[12]
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Trying to find an overall summary of BNP wins in council elections, I found this:

In summary of BNP councillors from 2000 to 2007: from 2000 to 2001 the BNP had none, in 2002 it had three, by 2003 it had 16 local councillors, this increased to 21 by 2005, in 2006 the biggest gain saw BNP's councillors rise to 48, and by 2007 to 50.[36][40]

In 2007, the number of BNP councillors fell slowly due to resignations and expulsions, several of them associated with a failed leadership challenge in the summer. By the end of the year, the number was 42. In 2008, however, the BNP increased its councillors to 55.
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In other words, at their peak they had around 50 councillors and have since been losing those meagre numbers:

The BNP did not field as many candidates for the 2009 local elections, because of its focus on the European Parliament election the same year, but for the first time won representation at county council level, winning three such seats.[41] A seat in a local by-election in Sevenoaks district, Kent, was also won by the BNP.

About four BNP councillors resigned at the end of 2009, leaving the party with 54 councillors by 2010.[36] In the May 2010 local elections, 26 BNP councillors lost their seats, leaving the party with 28 seats overall. In Barking and Dagenham, the party lost all 12 seats won in 2006.[42]

In the 2011 local elections, the BNP fielded 268 candidates and defended 13 council seats. It lost 11 of these seats, including all 5 of their councillors in Stoke-on-Trent. Two councillors were re-elected, one in Queensbury, West Yorkshire, and the other in Charnwood, Leicestershire, but no new seats were gained.
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So what numbers are you looking at?
 
The point is they will reach a peak then go the way of most parties of their ilk, replaced by something else.
 
Dcdrac said:
Thursday, UKIP won 163 out of 4,211 council seats - that's 3.9% ,in 2009 the BNP managed 6.2% of the vote that was in the EU parliament elections.
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Then you are comparing apples and oranges. You said:

Ukip have got 3.9 % of council seats even the BNP got 6% last time.
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But the BNP did NOT get 6% of council seats. They got 6.2% of the popular vote of the European Elections. And, as funk de fino pointed out, in the same election UKIP got 16.5%.
 
On becoming Scotland's first UKIP MEP....

Mr Coburn said his aim as an MEP was to keep "Scottish business and Scottish people aware of some of the crazy things going on in Europe that will affect their businesses and their jobs".

When challenged by presenter Gary Robertson to name some specific examples, Mr Coburn replied: "Off the top of my head I can't think but there's so many of them".
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big victory for the Apathy Party 3/4 not bothering to vote and of the third that did over 50% did not vote for UKIP - The Panaceas for the same old ills R Us Party
 
Darat said:
Not what I was referring to - remember they (the coalition & opposition) passed the new act that made governments fixed term.
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7th May 2015 it is then :)

(TiL the coalition actually made a law that makes sense.)
 
Dcdrac said:
Thursday, UKIP won 163 out of 4,211 council seats - that's 3.9% ,in 2009 the BNP managed 6.2% of the vote that was in the EU parliament elections.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_999999.stm

UKIP will be a footnote on newspapers used as chip wrapping in 5 years time, no doubt supplanted by some equally odious party.
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I fear not, even if UKIP itself manages to implode, it has re-invigorated the euro-sceptic wing of the Conservative party and will IMO force the three main parties to implement draconian anti-immigration policies.

There's also a fair chance that UKIP will be a key element to the UK leaving the EU which will be financially disadvantageous for the UK and financially devastating for yours truly.
 
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