Election Blow For Labour

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Results are in from 10 UK regions in the European Election vote and the United Kingdom Independence party have made big gains.
UKIP have so far picked up 10 extra seats while the Tories have seen their share of the vote drop by nine percent. Support for UKIP, which wants to pull Britain out of the EU, has rocketed.

The successful candidates include former television presenter Robert Kilroy-Silk, whose recruitment to the party helped galvanise their campaign as they capitalised on a potent mix of Euro-scepticism and disillusion with the major parties.

During his victory speech in Northampton in the East Midlands, Mr Kilroy-Silk said: "We are the only party that throughout the campaign has talked about Europe and not lied. "We are the only party that has talked to the British people about the issue that concerned them.
"The issue here is who governs us and the British people agree on its importance."

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1139360,00.html

[Mr Creosote]

1. The results are interesting

but who knows what they mean?
The Conservatives are "winning" with 27% of the vote (their lowest share since 1832)
Labour second with 22% (their lowest since 1910)
(since those dates were both long before universal suffrage - so really both main parties recorded their worst ever vote)
UKIP third with 17%
Lib Dems actually increased their vote to 15% but fell to fourth place.
My personal view is that the political currency has been so far debased by the politicians and their lies that most people just don't give a damn. Whoever wins the next general Election will do so on a fragmented vote and low turnout and won't really have a mandate for anything. What we need are politicians who decide policies by some criteria other than the pecuniary interest of themselves, their families and friends.