Tories and Labour crushed under the wheels of UKIP's bandwagon

[kalian]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=531361

The Tories and Labour suffered big setbacks as the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) made sweeping gains when the results of last Thursday's elections to the European Parliament were announced last night.

UKIP, which wants Britain to withdraw from the European Union, took votes from both main parties after dominating the campaign and sending shockwaves through the political establishment.

The anti-EU party gained its first European Parliament seat in London, where it took 12 per cent of votes and both Labour and the Tories ended up with one fewer seat. UKIP took seats in both the South-east and the South-west, coming second to the Tories in both regions with more than 20 per cent of the vote. It also won a seat in Yorkshire and the Humber and the Eastern and West Midlands regions. The Liberal Democrat vote held firm and the party grabbed a seat in Labour's North-east heartland.

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Maybe its time something similar happens here in the States....

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

1. Believe me, you don't want UKIP in the States

- nasty little right-wing xenophobes.

[kalian]

2. I'm talking about third parties....

being able to participate in democracy. You know...pluralism.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. oops! nt

[phantom power]

5. it works in the UK because of their parliamentary system

The way we elect congress members, and the president, makes multi-party participation very very difficult.

[kalian]

6. Its called a duopoly...

[dumpster_baby]

4. heaven forbid that citizens of a country should have the right to...

....control how many people immigrate into their own country. If the people of the UK are able to slow down 3rd world immigration, that might cause less of a labor surplus, leading to a living wage for the poor. And we can't have that, can we?

[kalian]

7. Or outsourced jobs....

[dumpster_baby]

8. TINA == There Is No Alternative!

I am just eating up that neoliberal globalist propaganda with a spoon!

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. A bit more info on the new UKIP MEPs

2. In the last European parliament, the three UKIP MEPs sat with the EDD group (Europe of Democracies and Diversities). The group is Eurosceptic but not in favour of withdrawal. The question is: where will UKIP sit in the next parliament? They may stay with the EDD or they could form a new grouping with MEPs totally opposed to membership. UKIP may even opt to join the far-right, as represented by Jean-Marie Le Pen.

3. UKIP's three MEPs in the last European Parliament had modest records. Graham Booth ranked 433rd in attendance out of 625, Nigel Farage was 554th, and Jeffrey Titford was 543rd. Each claims his parliamentary salary of £65,000 a year, and allowances can double that figure. For all that, they managed one parliamentary question during their five-year term.

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5. Two senior UKIP figures, Mike Nattrass and Mr Titford, are past members of the New Britain Party, founded as a pro-Rhodesia and anti- "coloured immigration" party. Mr Nattrass, elected as an MEP yesterday, stood for New Britain in the 1994 Dudley by-election. Asked recently about it, he said: "It isn't what you're thinking. It's not racist. It's more interested in celebrating the Queen's birthday and things like that."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=531702