UKIP Voting profile

[mos]

unless the entire shadow cabinet get caught in bed together with a herd of shetland ponies in suspenders I doubt it.

On the other hand, such revelation would actually help UKiP vote, no?

[sasguru]

it took the lib dems 30 years and they only got a slight sniff of power.

I doubt they will get a majority for a while..

But the Lib Dems always had a young, well-educated voting profile.
UKIP's old profile means that once their current supporters die off, they'll probably wither and die too.
Unless they can get someone who appeals to young voters - Farage appeals to a certain type of old provincial.

[sasguru]

Anyway the current state of affairs is such that Vote UKIP = Get Milliband.
No doubt the Tories will use that effectively come election time.
I reckon UKIP will do well in the Euro election and may win it, but in the "proper" election people will go back to the main parties.

[vetran]

On the other hand, such revelation would actually help UKiP vote, no?

that's my point its about the only thing that will, they are leeching the conservative vote. The core voters (the- I always vote labour like my father & grandfather) for any party don't tend to change much, its the ones that actually consider who to vote for that UKIP are taking.

I live in a Labour ward, they can put up a chimp in a red rosette and they would win, in other wards a chimp with a blue rosette would always win.

[Old Greg]

But the Lib Dems always had a young, well-educated voting profile.
UKIP's old profile means that once their current supporters die off, they'll probably wither and die too.
Unless they can get someone who appeals to young voters - Farage appeals to a certain type of old provincial.

On a plus note, UKIP have peeled the soft racist vote away from the fascist BNP, and for all their faults UKIP are a democratic non-fascist party.

[sasguru]

On a plus note, UKIP have peeled the soft racist vote away from the fascist BNP, and for all their faults UKIP are a democratic non-fascist party.

The best person at doing that was Thatcher. She peeled away the soft racist vote from the NF, while still getting rich Asians to donate to the Tories and vote Tory.

Quite an achievement, whatever you think of her.

[Old Greg]

The best person at doing that was Thatcher. She peeled away the soft racist vote from the NF, while still getting rich Asians to donate to the Tories and vote Tory.

Quite an achievement, whatever you think of her.

Yes, Thatcher absolutely stopped the growth of the NF.

[darmstadt]

The question you need to ask yourself is, when you vote UKIP what are you voting for? As Farage has said, he threw away their 2010 manifesto because it was 'drivel' and so far they have not proposed a new one although they do have a number of 'policies.' This means that when you do vote for them, you don't actually know what you're voting for, they have no accountability. Now I know that all of the other parties renege on their manifesto, up to a point, and do things which weren't in there in the first place but at least the average voter can point to that and say that they lied.

[vetran]

Anyway the current state of affairs is such that Vote UKIP = Get Milliband.
No doubt the Tories will use that effectively come election time.
I reckon UKIP will do well in the Euro election and may win it, but in the "proper" election people will go back to the main parties.

I fear that is the case. The best we can hope for is that UKIP revitalise the other parties and force discussion on the EU & Immigration.

Sort of agree about the age thing they don't really have an entry route for the young, to be against a European superstate you need to be more realist than idealist so not attractive to the young maybe UKIP can hire Miley Cyrus?

[TheFaQQer]

I live in a Labour ward, they can put up a chimp in a blue rosette and they would win, in other wards a chimp with a blue rosette would always win.

Sounds like blue rosettes are the way forwards if they always win.