"Will today be Ukip's 'political earthquake'? [...]" [edited title]

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2635989/Decision-time-Ukip-course-unprecedented-victory-polling-stations-open-local-European-elections.html

I hope so if it means the UK gets out of the EU. The landscape of Britain has changed dramatically since becoming a member. It is only a small country but attracts so many because of the benefit system and the NHS.

[mota bhai 2,675]

You hope the UKIP wins. They tell me that means you're a racist. Are they right?

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Maybe it's worth it just to see the Farage speeches.

Looking through the EU GDP numbers for the last six years.. The UK was hit harder than any of the other economies (2007 was 2.8 trillion, 2012 was 2.4 trillion - ouch!)

[Peikko 1,575]

UKIP can't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, let alone win an election, unless it's a European union seat because no one votes in those.

[Peikko 1,575]

The vast majority of those in receipts of benefits in the UK are in fact indigenous citizens Not sure why anyone would think differently.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

UKIP won't win.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

With the other thread, now I read this as U-KIP.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Maybe it's worth it just to see the Farage speeches.

Looking through the EU GDP numbers for the last six years.. The UK was hit harder than any of the other economies (2007 was 2.8 trillion, 2012 was 2.4 trillion - ouch!)

He is quite the entertainer and has a Palinesque foot-in-mouth penchant...

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

I don't understand the all the crying about what he said about Romanians.. He picked on Belgians forever and nobody cared at all...

[Pooky 3,844]

I don't understand the all the crying about what he said about Romanians.. He picked on Belgians forever and nobody cared at all...

"Belgium is the rudest word in the Universe, yet by a strange coincidence, also the name of a country on Earth. In the Secondary Phase, it is stated as "completely banned in all parts of the Galaxy, except in one part, where they don't know what it means, and in serious screenplays."

Douglas Adams, the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Not sure if that's any indication of things to come but in the Netherlands, Europe hater Wilders is looking at a serious shellacking.

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Not sure if that's any indication of things to come but in the Netherlands, Europe hater Wilders is looking at a serious shellacking.

Mmm.. from your posted article:

In Britain, final opinion polls showed the UK Independence Party, which wants to withdraw from the EU and impose tighter immigration controls, topping the poll and pushing the governing Conservatives into third place behind Labour.

I could see Labour coming out on top with the conservative vote split...

[Boiler 46,276]

UKIP gaining votes from Tories and Labour in English elections

BBC

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Yup!! Lots of entertainment coming!

UK’s anti-EU party looks to be big winner in local elections

Early results from the local council elections in Britain point to a surge in popularity of the UK Independence Party, whose fierce anti-Europe stance has rattled the mainstream British parties and will encourage the populist Eurosceptic parties who are campaigning across the continent.

While the final results from the local elections will not be known until later Friday, it appeared that UKIP, led by the charismatic Nigel Farage, was on course to win third of the votes in some of the big cities, such as Birmingham, where its presence had been small to nil. UKIP was stealing votes from all three mainstream parties – the Conservatives, their coalition partner the Liberal Democrats and the opposition Labour.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/uks-anti-eu-party-look-to-be-big-winners-in-local-elections/article18819059/

Edited May 23, 2014 by OnMyWayID

[JohnR! 5,495]

I don't understand the all the crying about what he said about Romanians.. He picked on Belgians forever and nobody cared at all...

You should see his predictions that never came to pass, that Britain would be run over by millions of East Europeans this year...