Posted on 04/24/2015 4:58:34 AM PDT by UKrepublican
He is a great man.
UKIPs policies are a mix of center right/libertarian.
The two are compatiable and indeed many UKIP voters, members were former member of the Tories - in fact the only two UKIP MPs defected from the conservatives and Farage himself many years ago was a member of that party.
No seat projection I’ve seen has UKIP winning more than 6 seats. One article I read said the party hopes to win....22
US Congressional District is something like 700,000 people. A UK member of House of Commons represents around 100,000 people.
Libertarian but for borders (without which one has no representation). Pretty much what I thought. It would indicate that as soon as the voters realize that UKIP can be elected they might just dump the Tories wholesale. Now that would be historic. Farage would make a most interesting PM.
I hope he has a proper security detail
Nigel is doing well and they are starting to get scared using fear, the only weapon the political and business elites have left.
HSBC is threatening to move its headquarters out of the UK.
That poll shows Farage up by 9% *in his own district*, right? That’s like touting a poll showing Pelosi up big in her San Francisco district. If Farage leads a coalition of 6 UKIP members, it won’t be much of a “victory,” personal or otherwise.
I was curious about numbers earlier, and your post made me look it up. An MP seat has a constituency of about 65,000 - 80,000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_Parliament_constituencies
By comparison, a Congressional seat is approaching 700,000 (!).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_apportionment
So, obviously, it’s much easier to know your MP than your Congressman, in general.
haha yes this is very true.
Go UKIP!
Yes, and even working class labout voters, are jumping ship for UKIP.
Interesting times ahead.
Any conservative Republican who is serious about immigration here will see the same thing.
Not quite, since him not winning his own seat at all is a very real possibility while Pelosi even coming close to losing is not.
Even if it’s 22 seats, that’s still nothing. That’s like 15 seats in the US House. Sure it’s a big breakthough compared to the zero they had after the last election but......
This makes me wish that the instant runoff vote referendum had passed. If all UKIP does is take enough votes from the Tories that Labour wins, that will suck.
Third party running against the failure of the main parties. He unapologetically tells the truth.
Room for that here too.
UKIP wants to reform the electoral system in the UK to replace first past the post which is what they have and what we have here in the US.
If Labour wins it will be the fault of the fake Conservatives of David Cameron who doubled the country’s national debt, delayed talking about the EU until UKIP won the EU Parliament election last year and gave the final blessing to gay marriage etc. etc. etc.
Cameron’s party is rightly called by some of its detractors the “Lavatories”.
All of the MSM projections were giving UKIP no seats
He wants the UK out of the EU (he is a current member of the European parliament).
Cameron promised a vote, and then weasled out of it. So a referendum is more likely if Farage wins.
UKIP has a youtube channel and the Farage clips are fun to watch.
I heard the media narrative is that UKIP gets no seats at all in their projections and that its to be a 272-272 Von-Lab split with LDP making up the difference
Not exactly a safe seat for the FIFTH party though,not even a 3rd party but a 5th!!
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