Chris Moncrieff reports
[An unsettling result as PM shrugs it off Blackpool Gazette 18th February] that
the Leader if UKIP, Nigel Farage, ' - - has pointed out , only three
weeks ago his party had no presence whatsoever in this constituency
[Wythenshawe & Sale East] and had never fought it'. It should
come as no surprise that Farage is either ignorant of the facts or
economical with truth or both. At the General Election in 2010 Chris
Cassidy stood in this seat for UKIP & polled 1405 votes. What can
really be deduced from this result? The one unarguable fact is that
some 17000 people who voted in 2010 didn't bother this time. Nearly
15000 voters deserted the Government parties of Conservatives &
LibDems & it would be silly to pretend that that was not a bad
result for them. Approximately 900 deserted the BNP. Did the BNP
deserters vote &, if so, who for, one might wonder? Against that
background, for UKIP to only pick up less than 3000 extra votes,
given all their noise, effort & hype is NOT terribly impressive.
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