Friday 3 May 2013

UKIP and HS2

Are the UKIP gains the result of people wanting UKIP to be in power or are they demonstrations that some voters are strongly against certain things? It is traditional, in midterm elections, for the party in power to lose votes, but they usually lose them to the main opposition party simply as a protest against what the government is doing. Maybe, in these May local elections, the vote for UKIP should be looked at by the main parties as demonstrating that some voters are in favour of some things that UKIP stands for and to simply dismiss it as a protest vote could be a serious mistake.

What does UKIP stand for? I am the wrong person to comment as I am not a supporter but it seems to me that the three main things that they stand for are:

Getting out of Europe

Tightening up on immigration controls


Stopping the building of HS2

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