Re: UKIP a close second
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:02 pm
Well one positive thing to emerge from this by election is that it suggests the Tories have no chance of winning the next election.
They couldn't get an overall majority at the last election even though the country was gripped in the worst recession since the Thirties and Gordon Brown was one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers in recent history.
It is even more unlikely then that the Tories will win the next election given that after almost 3 years in power, there has been no growth, the deficit is rising again, the debt is rising despite hundreds of thousands of public sector workers thrown out of their jobs and the UK has lost the triple A rating which was the most important measure of success set by Osborne in 2010. To add to that, Cameron's attempt to move right on Europe to counter UKIP has totally failed based on the Eastleigh vote.
Having said that UKIP doing well is just Lib Dems mark 2. With the Lib Dems it was a bunch of bozos who had never been in power rambling on about the "New Politics" and then shafting their voters when they sniffed power. So now it is another bunch of bozos in the shape of UKIP getting the protest vote simply because they are not the Tories and Labour and their main message that it is all Jonny Foreigner's fault either in the shape of the EU parliament or immigrants, appeals to those who have difficulty rubbing two brain cells together.
What these new UKIP supporters will find is that many of them are turkeys voting for XMAS given UKIP's plans to privatise the NHS, get rid of the 40% and 50% tax rates and to have a general "libertarian" approach to public sector pensions etc. i.e. they are hugely overpaid.
They couldn't get an overall majority at the last election even though the country was gripped in the worst recession since the Thirties and Gordon Brown was one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers in recent history.
It is even more unlikely then that the Tories will win the next election given that after almost 3 years in power, there has been no growth, the deficit is rising again, the debt is rising despite hundreds of thousands of public sector workers thrown out of their jobs and the UK has lost the triple A rating which was the most important measure of success set by Osborne in 2010. To add to that, Cameron's attempt to move right on Europe to counter UKIP has totally failed based on the Eastleigh vote.
Having said that UKIP doing well is just Lib Dems mark 2. With the Lib Dems it was a bunch of bozos who had never been in power rambling on about the "New Politics" and then shafting their voters when they sniffed power. So now it is another bunch of bozos in the shape of UKIP getting the protest vote simply because they are not the Tories and Labour and their main message that it is all Jonny Foreigner's fault either in the shape of the EU parliament or immigrants, appeals to those who have difficulty rubbing two brain cells together.
What these new UKIP supporters will find is that many of them are turkeys voting for XMAS given UKIP's plans to privatise the NHS, get rid of the 40% and 50% tax rates and to have a general "libertarian" approach to public sector pensions etc. i.e. they are hugely overpaid.