The local party kept my vote, but in the Euro elections I went for UKIP for a variety of reasons. |
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You do not have to be a UKIP refusenik to recognise that these tensions are becoming intolerable. |
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Polls nevertheless have put UKIP in first place in the UK, with estimates it could virtually double its seats in Strasbourg. |
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With regard to education policy, UKIP supports selective education through the creation of additional grammar schools. |
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Currently, Scotland returns two Labour, two SNP, one Conservative and one UKIP MEP to the European Parliament. |
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Despite contesting 10 seats last time, UKIP did not stand in Northern Ireland. |
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Labour, Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, and Liberal Democrats contested all forty seats and there were 32 UKIP and 10 Green candidates. |
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Meetings of local party members from UKIP, the Greens and Plaid Cymru selected their candidates. |
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Notwithstanding national arrangements, the Liberal Democrats, the Greens and UKIP indicated they might not stand in every constituency. |
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In 2008, Usherwood noted that UKIP relied heavily on a small number of major financial backers. |
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They gained Clacton from UKIP and Southport from the Liberal Democrats in addition to the six gains from Labour. |
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Giving the following result, 40 Conservative councillors, 15 UKIP, 14 Labour, 10 Liberal Democrats, 4 Green Party and one independent. |
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In the 2017 local elections the Conservatives regained majority control of the Council with UKIP and the Greens losing all of their seats. |
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Labour, the Green Party, UKIP and the BNP failed to secure any seats in Cornwall. |
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As a result, 45 Conservatives, 17 Liberal Democrats, 10 UKIP, four Labour and one Community Campaign councillor sit on the County Council. |
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Former youth wing chair Sanya-Jeet Thandi, 20, whose parents are Indian, said that the UKIP has descended into a form of racist populism. |
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Desmond had previously made the UKIP peer David Stevens his deputy chairman. |
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In April 2017, a second UKIP AM left the party and joined the Conservative Assembly group without joining the party. |
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In the May 2012 local elections, UKIP put up 691 candidates in around 2,500 local council election contests. |
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Mark Taylor stood for UKIP in Coventry South during the General Election and finished third, pulling in nearly 6,000 votes. |
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As of January 2015, UKIP membership is the fifth highest of British parties. |
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They highlighted that polls repeatedly demonstrated that UKIP drew more votes from Conservative voters than Labour ones. |
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Mr Nattrass quit UKIP last year after taking the party to court over a decision to deselect him for the forthcoming elections. |
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If you want a ditherer for PM then vote Tory, if you want a Margaret Thatcher for PM then vote UKIP, but if you want sanity then vote Labour. |
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Fruitcakes UKIP looks like a party which heeds the concerns of voters while mainstream politicians ignore them. |
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In the 2014 local elections, UKIP won 163 seats, an increase of 128, but did not take control of any council. |
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On economic issues, there was a divide between UKIP voters and the party itself. |
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The national party and UKIP Scotland focused on supporting the candidates for the upcoming European elections. |
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On 21 November 2016, James announced that she was leaving UKIP and would henceforth sit as an Independent. |
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Further, the system encouraged tactical voting, with many UKIP supporters believing that a vote for the party would be a wasted vote. |
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Because of this, there were calls from some in UKIP for a voting reform in favour of proportional representation. |
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Carswell quit the party in March 2017 to become an independent, leaving UKIP without any MPs in the Commons. |
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This lead rose up to approximately 10 points over the Conservative Party during 2012, whose ratings dipped alongside an increase in UKIP support. |
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As the party's name suggests, UKIP has always had the politics of national identity at its core. |
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In the 2013 local elections, UKIP won 147 seats and established itself as the largest opposition party in six English county councils. |
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In the 2015 local elections, UKIP took control of Thanet District Council, its first majority control of a council. |
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As a result of the 1999 European parliament election, three UKIP MEPs were elected to the European Parliament. |
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The Conservative Party and UKIP had candidates in every region, as did the three Green parties. |
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In 2004, UKIP reorganised itself nationally as a private company limited by guarantee. |
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The town has substantial Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats and UKIP presences. |
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After 4 months in the assembly, North Wales AM Nathan Gill left the UKIP group to sit as an independent, citing much infighting and distractions. |
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During the election, UKIP outperformed the BNP, whose electoral support base collapsed shortly after. |
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Pearson, however, was unpopular with the UKIP grassroots, who viewed him as an establishment figure too favourable to the Conservatives. |
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Scotland returns two Labour MEPs, two SNP MEPs, one Conservative and Unionist MEP and one UKIP MEP, to the European Parliament. |
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A SECOND UKIP MEP is facing a sleaze inquiry over his use of allowances. |
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The Northern Ireland Conservatives and UKIP fielded candidates, whereas Labour and the Liberal Democrats do not contest elections in Northern Ireland. |
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They also spoke of the DUP joining UKIP in this arrangement. |
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While some smaller parties opposed austerity, the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP all supported some further cuts, albeit to different extents. |
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Ideologically positioned on the right wing of British politics, UKIP has been characterised as part of a broader European radical right by political scientists. |
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The pressure UKIP exerted on the government is widely regarded as the main reason for the 2016 referendum which led to the decision to withdraw from the European Union. |
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Governed by its leader and National Executive Committee, UKIP is divided into twelve regional groups, with an additional one representing Gibraltar. |
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In 2002, the former Conservative MP Roger Knapman was elected UKIP leader, bringing with him the experience of mainstream politics that the party had lacked. |
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On 6 April 2017, another former MP, Mark Reckless, left UKIP to sit with the Conservative group in the Welsh Assembly, although he did not rejoin the Conservative Party. |
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In contrast to involvement in the EU, UKIP has emphasised the UK's global connections, in particularly to member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
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On their campaign billboards, UKIP have presented EU migrants as a source of crime, as well as a pressure on housing, the welfare state, and the health service. |
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In its 2015 campaign, UKIP called for the foreign aid budget to be cut. |
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Farage and other senior UKIP figures have repeatedly spoken out against the construction of wind farms, deeming them a blot on the rural landscape. |
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The donation indicated that Desmond's papers, the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, would back UKIP in the 2015 general election. |
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Conversely, an earlier study by Richard Whitaker and Philip Lynch, based on polling data from YouGov, concluded that UKIP voters were distinct from those of far right parties. |
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After Coburn won the seat, he was appointed leader of UKIP Scotland. |
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Earlier in 1999, UKIP had gained a second peer in the House of Lords, The Earl of Bradford, but he, too, left the House in November 1999 because of the House of Lords Act. |
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In May 2013, 33 English and one Welsh council held local elections, with UKIP gaining 139 seats for a total of 147, with significant gains in Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Kent. |
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The British press have widely publicised various statements made by UKIP activists and candidates which have been regarded as racist, sexist or otherwise bigoted. |
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For many years, mainstream political figures derided or demeaned the importance of UKIP, although this did little to obstruct its electoral advances. |
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Plaid Cymru formed the official opposition, with Leanne Wood becoming leader of the opposition, while the Conservatives and UKIP also form opposition groups. |
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In the 2014 European Parliament election the Wales constituency elected one MEP from each of the Labour, UKIP, Conservative, and Plaid Cymru parties. |
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Carswell retained the seat for UKIP at the subsequent general election. |
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On 8 May UKIP proposed a net migration target of zero within five years. |
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Every Conservative MP who defects to UKIP drags the Tories Rightwards. |
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Other species, like the Green Party and UKIP, have more isolated strongholds, such as the greater mouse-eared bat which is known at a single site on the South coast. |
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But ultimately if they don't like their taxes subsidising the unfair EU system, the logical answer is to support UKIP and get us out of this unreformable mess. |
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Until now UKIP has always been, effectively, a ginger group. |
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