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Will Campbell Bannerman’s exit put more pressure on Farage?

Will Campbell Bannerman’s exit put more pressure on Farage?

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BBC News What’s going wrong at the anti-EU party? Just a fortnight after one of UKIP’s leading figures, Marta Andreasen, called on Nigel Farage to resign there’s been another blow to the party leader, Nigel Farage. One of the party’s senior MEPs and a candidate in last autumn’s leadership election, David Campbell Bannerman, has announced that he’s defecting to the Tories. He said: the party had become “obsessed with single issue politics, internal fighting and shouting from the sidelines…With the…

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Could Farage be another May 5th leadership casualty?

Could Farage be another May 5th leadership casualty?

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Why didn’t his party pick up any more councillors? There’ve been calls during the day for Nigel Farage to step down as UKIP leader following his party’s dismal performance last Thursday. After the strong showing in the Barnsley by-election and putting up nearly thirteen hundred candidates in last week’s local elections the party saw no return for all its efforts. The key UKIP figure, former EU Chief Accountant Marta Andreasen, has said that it’s time for the leader, who was…

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Will raising immigration stop the seepage of votes to UKIP?

Will raising immigration stop the seepage of votes to UKIP?

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Has Dave decided on a core votes strategy? With three weeks to go before the May 5th elections David Cameron is getting big headlines this morning over a speech that he’ll make on immigration. This marks a big change from last year’s general election when the main parties sought, each for their own reasons, to side-step the issue even though it generally ranks as one of the public’s main concerns. So what’s prompted today’s move in which he will attack…

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Why’s YES apparently reluctant to work with Farage?

Why’s YES apparently reluctant to work with Farage?

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Is UKIP felt to be not quite respectable? Last month UKIP decided that it should campaign for a YES result in the May 5th referendum. In a statement the party said:“.. we recognise that AV does enable all voters to register their first preference vote with the candidate of their conscience, and so demolishes the ‘wasted vote’ issue. Under AV, UKIP could potentially achieve a much higher share of the vote through ‘honest’ first preferences.” I’m sure that’s a correct…

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Poll: 6pc of Tory voters have switched to UKIP

Poll: 6pc of Tory voters have switched to UKIP

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How serious is the threat to the blues? New data from Angus Reid shows that 6% of those who told the pollster in a post election survey in May 2010 that the voted Tory now saying they would support UKIP in an immediate general election. What’s significant about this is that the past vote data is not based on what they now say they did at the last election but on what they told the pollster in a survey carried…

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Is UKIP ever going to deliver a Westminster surprise?

Is UKIP ever going to deliver a Westminster surprise?

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The UKIP By-election record Date UKIP share % Deposit Norwich North 23/07/09 11.8 Saved deposit Glenrothes 06/11/08 0.3 Lost deposit Henley 26/06/08 2.4 Lost deposit Crewe and Nantwich 22/05/08 2.2 Lost deposit Sedgefield 19/07/07 1.9 Lost deposit Ealing Southall 19/07/07 0.8 Lost deposit Bromley and Chislehurst 29/06/06 8.1 Saved deposit Dunfermline and West Fife 09/02/06 0.6 Lost deposit Livingston 29/09/05 0.4 Lost deposit Hartlepool 30/09/04 10.2 Saved deposit Brent East 18/09/03 0.7 Lost deposit Ipswich 22/11/01 1.0 Lost deposit West…

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Welcome to the “Guardian on Steroids”

Welcome to the “Guardian on Steroids”

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Do the actual leaks live up to their billing? If you’ve ever wondered what a newspaper on steroids would look like then check out the Guardian this morning. The paper is claiming a big exclusive with its revelations from Wikileaks of US diplomatic messages and a large part of the paper is devoted to the coverage. As well as the analysis there’s article after article stating why they are publishing the information as well as, on their website, an interactive…

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Should you be betting on 10/1 Lord Monckton?

Should you be betting on 10/1 Lord Monckton?

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Is he the man who can make UKIP a force? There’s another leadership battle going on – for UKIP, the party which beat Labour for the second place slot in last year’s EU elections. Compared with the current Labour battle the likely contenders are a much more colourful bunch though, admittedly, that’s not difficult. One of the most prominent is the international anti-AGW campaigner and former aide to Mrs. Thatcher, Christopher Monckton. He became one of the party’s deputies earlier…

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