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Will the last person to quit UKIP please remember to turn out the lights

Will the last person to quit UKIP please remember to turn out the lights

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Job done: Why I am joining the Conservative Group in the Welsh Assembly pic.twitter.com/7TFh9JD6zE — Mark Reckless (@MarkReckless) April 6, 2017 Mark Reckless, 2nd CON MP to defect to UKIP in 2014,rejoins the blue team Just two weeks afte UKIP’s first elected MP, Douglas Carswell, announced that he was leaving the party the second big MP defector from 2014, Mark Reckless, has announced that he’s doing the same. Reckless had been MP for Rochester in Kent and won the by-election…

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UKIP drops to ZERO MPs following Carswell’s decision to leave the party

UKIP drops to ZERO MPs following Carswell’s decision to leave the party

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In happier times – Farage with his CON defector in 2014 But no by-election, he’ll remain in Commons as an independent This lunchtime’s announcement from Douglas Carswell, the MP for Clacton, that he’s to leave UKIP is hardly a surprise. He had been largely detached from the party for months and and it really became a question of not if he would leave the purples but when. He always appeared uncomfortable with UKIP’s emphasis on immigration and campaigned in the…

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Growing in size Britain’s weirdest voting group: The Kippers who now think leaving the EU is wrong

Growing in size Britain’s weirdest voting group: The Kippers who now think leaving the EU is wrong

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Over the last few months, as those who follow the site will know, I have been writing posts and tweets about the YouGov Brexit tracker which come which comes out two or three times a month. The actual question is “In hindsight do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the EU?” The overall picture is that the gap between those who think the outcome was wrong has and those right has narrowed and for the…

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ComRes becomes the 3rd pollster in a week to have UKIP fourth

ComRes becomes the 3rd pollster in a week to have UKIP fourth

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ComRes for Indy and S Mirror CON 42 LAB 25 LD 12 UKIP 10 Over the past week YouGov, Ipsos-MORI and now ComRes have found UKIP in fourth place. Partly this is down to the LDs advancing and partly to UKIP’s shares slipping. LAB, meanwhile is now a colossal 17% behind in very serious trouble indeed. Things don’t look good for Corbyn’s team in the May round of local and Mayoral elections. Since Corbyn was re-elected as leader last September…

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UKIP: circling the whirlpool

UKIP: circling the whirlpool

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How does Nuttall save his party from irrelevance? UKIP was very good for Brexit: if the party had never been created, Britain would almost certainly still be a member of the European Union.* Brexit, by contrast, has been disastrous for UKIP. Stripped of their two greatest assets – their mission and by far their most effective leader – UKIP has struggled since last July to find a purpose or a direction. Compounded by internal divisions, the estrangement of their major…

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The Tory MP for Thanet South and his agent have been questioned under caution over their election expenses

The Tory MP for Thanet South and his agent have been questioned under caution over their election expenses

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EXCL: Tory MP Craig Mackinlay interviewed under caution for six hours over South Thanet election expenses: https://t.co/eDhdlnRIQK — Kate McCann (@KateEMcCann) March 14, 2017 The Telegraph are reporting that. Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay was questioned by Police under caution last week over his election expenses, the Telegraph can reveal. The South Thanet MP reportedly spent six hours being interviewed by officers over alleged overspending in the 2015 election campaign in which he beat Nigel Farage and Al Murray, the Pub…

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The persistence of kippers – looking at where post-referendum UKIP is now

The persistence of kippers – looking at where post-referendum UKIP is now

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Most polls still have the purples in double figures They are routinely derided by others.  The press loves to print stories of their wackier examples.  They are marginalised.  Their public figures are held up to ridicule.  Yet they make up roughly one in ten of the adult population.  I write, of course, of UKIP supporters. Who are these people?  Where do they come from?  And why, eight months after Leave won the referendum and with the vote being implemented in…

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Arron Banks v Douglas Carswell. Let’s get ready to rhumble.

Arron Banks v Douglas Carswell. Let’s get ready to rhumble.

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In yesterday’s Independent Arron Banks, the UKIP donor, said he would definitively stand against Douglas Carswell in Clacton at the next general election, so Paddy Power have a market up on which of those two will receive the most votes at the next general election. If I had to choose I’d go for Carswell to win this bet, because he is very popular in his seat, as evidenced by Carswell holding his seat at the general election unlike the other…

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