#Vote2014 seats so far:
Labour 123 (-1)
Conservatives 89 (-31)
UKIP 40 (+40)
Lib Dems 11 (-10)
Green 0 (0)
http://t.co/V4MgCFWjxm
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) May 23, 2014
BBC: The surge in support for UKIP, which comes on top of big gains at last year’s local elections, has sent shockwaves through the main parties at Westminster.
The Guardian: …first tremors of the Ukip political earthquake
Updated results here.
Hope and Change!
Funny, you can see the gains for UKIP in the drop in LibDem and Conservative support almost exactly. Now the UKIP controls the minority government, no?
shockwaves through the main parties at Westminster.
This is how vastly out of touch the left is from any real citizans.Of course the y never seen the tsunami coming their way. In the bubble universe the Elite live in, they could not conceive that most people don’t see the carefully planned Political narrative they have invented to control them like pigs to the slaughter. That labour won shows me Britain still loves to be a door mat.
No, these are EU parliamentary elections, not British national parliamentary elections. It changes nothing in the H of C. But it bodes very badly for Davey-boy whenever he has to face the British voters again. All parties are losing, including the Greens, to UKIP. But the so-called Conservatives are taking the worst of the beating. All is not happy within Labour either, as Miliband is taking public criticism from his own backbenchers over the campaign he ran.
So yes, this is good news, couldn’t be reasonably better in fact. And the vote percentage is up, showing that people are unhappy with the current state of affairs, particularly with Brussels and the EU kommissars.
But my, there’s some gems in that BBC account. Delusional statements all over the place from the mainstream pro-EU parties and factions. Fact is, even within the mainstream parties, anti-EU sentiment is on the rise. Mark Steyn may be right. If this keeps up, the Tories are in for a reverse takeover eventually at the hands of UKIP. After all, why vote for fake conservatives, when just over there is the real thing?
People aren’t happy. Here’s an update for England:
Party Seats
Total Gain
LAB 309 +19
CON 304 -68
LD 71 -26
UKIP 71 +70
GRN 0 0
OTH 30 +4
The big question: how many of these are protest votes, and how many people have actually been dislodged from their party affiliation?
Nonetheless, any anti-EU party will have a tough time of it. The Brussels bureaucrats have many options to bring their nations to heel. The final option is to split large European nations into small ones.
Ever notice that Scotland and Wales are making noise about independence? The same is true of many regions across Europe: Catalonia, the Veneto, Lombardy, and so on.
If England wants to resign from the EU, they may one day get their wish. But they’ll be surrounded by Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the rest of the United States of Europe. And the sun will have set on the British Empire.
That sound you just heard was Elly May’s sphincter snapping shut…
Mark Steyn on the rise of UKIP and its newest leader, Nigel Farage. (A long but great read.)
http://www.steynonline.com/5605/ukip-shakes-up-westminster
They’re the local municipal “council” elections. The EU elections are coming up.
More good news. Now there will be a few EMPs telling vom Rompey and Bourasso that they are a bunch of commie thugs.
Hopefully this UKIP momentum carries on to the British national elections next year.
upperdate for England:
http://www.bbc.com/news/events/vote2014/england-council-election-results
Seats
lab 402 +47
con 350 -83
ld 91 -52
ukip 82 +81
grn 2 0
oth 34 +6
noc N/A N/A
UKIP is obviously on a roll up 81 seats with Cons and LibDems taking a well deserved beating. Full electoral results on Sunday with an electoral “Rumpy Pumpy Rogering” being delivered with some gusto…
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I didn’t even think there were enough dissatisfied voters.
I guess I was wrong.
One sees a backlash not just in the UK but elsewhere. How long can European politicians be milquetoasts and not be told to take a hike at some point?
What appears to be happening is the Liberal Democrat progressives are reverting to Labour (progressives on steroids) while UKIP has peeled off support from conservative progressives.
As satisfying as UKIP gains, is the greens being ignored as a viable party. All that brainwashing and panic hype has gained the IPCC very few followers and unaffordable utility bills have dampened the enthusiasm of the general public to living in the stone age or freezing to death.
A little bit of hope, that is for sure. As far as I am concerned time is running out for the UK. If they don’t wait up soon….it’s over.
It’s kind of thrilling to watch an idealistic reform movement evolve – something to challenge status quo corruption and lethargy. Similar to the western reform movement here which shook up the status quo – but like the reform movement here, which was an attempt to correct status quo corruption and power mongering, it will probably be infiltrated by status quo corrupting forces and brought down from within. This is a pattern in all post modern reform movements. Farage IS the UKIP and if his leadership ever fails the party will be ravaged by enemy infiltration.
Centralized power is monolithic and once established is virtually impossible to change within the systems they build. These systems are constructed to resist change not foster it. I like Farage and I wish him the best of luck but I fear that conventional political tactics against an established political power monopoly which created the conventions, has little chance to succeed.
I admire Farage very much for his stand against corruption and abuse of power it is a small island of integrity in a sea of political venality.
These results are for British municipal elections, town councils. The same day, the European elections were held but the results won’t be known until Sunday.
It seems that UKIP’s gains are the conservative party loss while Labour has grown again.
I have had several discussions with Liberal supporters as they have the Liberal signs and can not believe that all the destruction wrought by McGuinty/Wynne means simply nothing. I showed 2 of my neighbours on my street the chart produced by the government showing the paying down of the stranded Hydro debt. It plainly shows in 2003 that McGuinty added $4B dollars to this debt that was to be paid off in 2009 but now maybe by 2016, some 7 YEARS of additional payments by all of us. My Liberal neighbours didn’t care, simply didn’t make any difference and when we talked about energy they repeated the lie that Fracking caused ground water contamination.
Stick a fork in Ontario, we are done.
I have always admired Farage’s ability to stay the course. He is guiding UKIP into a position of political importance which not only will Britain have to consider but eventually all of the EU.
As an old Reformer I view with regret that much of what was struggled for has in fact been abandoned/neutralized by those most threatened by true representative government. I think one could rightfully question the real difference between the CPC, LIB and NDP and the British counterparts. I think not much.
Makes no never mind.Putin has all ready taken over the EU commies.
“Stick a fork in Ontario, we are done.”
dave on May 23, 2014 9:10 AM
I agree Dave….might be time for the Missus and I to consider a move back west and be closer to the grandkids.
The stupid here in Ontario is just overwhelming.
CT, well said. I agree.
Dave, the years of media brainwashing seem to having results in Ontario and the thieves and incompetents will once again govern there.
Let’s not lose sight of Labour gaining almost double UKIPS seats.
In a word, entitlement.
“Stick a fork in Ontario, we are done.”
Which “Ministry Of” are they sucking from?
Not entirely accurate to say its just an EU vote. There were also votes local council seats. This was for around a third of the English and Northern Irish electorate. The results are quite interesting. The three main parties liblabcon (who are pretty much indistinguishable now) all did badly for varying reasons.
The Liberals were punished for having the audacity to join a coalition with the Conservatives and then reneging on many of their promises. The most important one was the changes required to the boundaries which currently disproportionally favour Labour.
The Conservatives lost ground because they have done nothing about immigration and people no longer believe they have any intention of doing anything about it since the only way we can regain border control is by leaving the EU.
Labour whilst gaining some seats have a major problem in that the people they have relied on in the past in their “class war” no longer vote for them automatically. They are starting to wake up and see that the “Bollinger Bolsheviks” don’t give a stuff for the “working class” after all this is the party that effectively abandoned border controls “to rub the rights nose in diversity” The working class are starting to see just what such enrichment actually entails when they can’t get an NHS dentist or a hospital appointment or that job they used to have that is now taken by some schmoe from Bulgaria who will work for next to nothing. The interesting result was London which is almost a state withing a state. The denizens of upmarket places like Islington and Primrose Hill vote Labour but are completely detached from reality. Meanwhile in shitholes like Tower Hamlets you have the sleazy Lufter Rahman with gangs of youths waiying outside the polling stations to make sure the vote goes the right way.
Farage has tapped into the disconnect between the Westminster Establishment and the public. The clown in Parliament have abused the public with lies and balderdash about immigration and you couldn’t get a fag paper between conservative liberal or labour. They are all social democrats and all pro Europe. They also have a pro EU state propaganda unit the BBC funded by threat of imprisonment if you dont pay the TV tax.
UKIP which at heart is libertarian party is anti EU, anti uncontrolled immigration and in favour of small state government. The “big three” are the exact opposite and the public at large have had enough. The good news is that UKIP now have local councilors, they have boots on the ground. The Conservatives are losing members, Labour are reliant on the unions and have a weirdo for a leader, and the Liberals are finished.
Happy days.