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Surely UKIP's problem is that it only has one policy that the public identifies with. Now they have succeeded in that there is no further reason to vote for them.

They are now as relevant as the Abolish Hanging campaign or a pressure group to remove the requirement for a man with a red flag to walk in advance of a motor vehicle on a public road.
What next for UKIP? The acceptable face of the BNP.

(More likely, merger back to the Conservatives where they belong.)
As much as I'd like UKIP to disappear from the political scene I don't see this happening. To access the single market will entail continued immigration into UK, and there will be plenty of votes left from those who dislike immigration.

It remains to be seen whether we end up with some political realignment on the right, with the right of the Tory Party linking up with UKIP.
UKIP's role looks to me to replace Labour across large swathes of the North of England. Think they will shift to the left, and worry less about their old southern shire heartlands, now that their key policy has been brought to fruition by the Tories. Certainly if Stephen Woolfe is their next leader, anyhow.
Although I agreed with UKIP on their main reason for existence, I disagree with the majority of their other policies (which are detailed on their website if anyone cares), and I'm not alone.
"not laughing now" ...in truth we were not 'fully' in were we? Not agreed to the totally open borders...being an island kind of made that easier. We turned our back on the Euro...who knows what state things would be like now if we'd joined that. And constantly asking for this and that whilst moaning about this and that. Like some bad marriages it almost as if we stuck together for the children but in the end the split was unstoppable.
I'm writing here because it's the nearest there is to a box marked 'Other'
In the lead up to the London Mayoral election, I was initially surprised that you listed four leading parties, the surprise being that the party to fill out the 4 was the Greens. There seemed, however, to be evidence to support the proposition: that is to say, if there was a 4th party, it *was* the Greens, with UKIP not even getting a mention as an also-ran.
It may be for the good of the Greens that they don't have a leadership struggle for people and the media to be chattering about, but lately there's been little talk about them - or from them - at all.
Given the attention being given to UKIP (not all of it negative), and even signs of a public shift towards them, one might have thought that - as their 'nearest opponents' - the Greens would have been doing more to hold on to their standing in the rivalry?
The Green Party is the most socialist of all the manifestoes, save possibly the TUSC Party one. Yet the Green Party will be divided by the issues that form the principal core of their policy - some consider nuclear power to be a key stop-gap solution whilst renewable energy is developed and promoted, taking a larger share of the supply market until it becomes the dominant force - others will have no truck with nuclear power whatsoever. Many Greens would do away with the internal combustion engine within a year of taking power, others see it as something to be gradually discouraged and reduced through coercion and viable replacement. There are too many issues held too passionately for them to be a cohesive force without an incredibly strong and diplomatic leader.
UKIP, with its narrow focus, has a far better chance of rallying support for itself without exploding through internal friction in the process, although it has shown signs of this even.
UKIP is dead in the water. In a year there will be no one for those East Londoners who 'migrated' eastward to vote for.All the twerps who stood as candidates will be back where they belong in the Tory Party. Soon they will be reopening closed down Tory clubs in East London and Essex!
[At the time of writing about the Greens (vis-à-vis UKIP) I wasn't aware comments had already been made about them in the section about the Lib Dems. In truth, I didn't even look at the bit about the Lib Dems until there was nothing else left.]
Hmmm. Interesting comment from UA (above) about the Greens: the bit about "many of them wanting to do away with the internal combustion engine within a year... "
There's zeal for ya! But, er... wouldn't that leave us all a bit short of all those buses and trains that run on diesel???
When the Greens ran Brighton & Hove City Council for four years they were hopelessly split between Marxist lefties and traditional environmental socialists.
A party that is split?! Wow...that is new!










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