Dramatic council by-election boost for UKIP in Suffolk
Huge UKIP GAIN from CON at Haverhill East on St Edmundsbury DC
UKIP 529
Lab 240
Con 157
LD 54
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 10, 2014
If this is the shape of things to come all the main parties are in trouble
Vote share changes from 2011 in the Haverhill, Suffolk, district council by election
UKIP 54% +54
LAB 24.5% -12.7
CON 16% -31.9
LD 5.5% -9.4
— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) January 10, 2014
The one qualification was that the turnout, at 18.5%, was very low. Even so it says something that in such circumstances it is UKIP that is makng the weather.