Clacton Decides

[Benfleet A1]

The good people of Clacton are voting today. That being the case and with the polls suggesting a landslide, may I just say one thing,




Get your wallet out migrate.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Just what message are UKIP offering the UK electorate exactly?:unsure:

 

[Pubey]

The independent candidates are quite interesting. A high class (apparently) prostitute, along with an oncologist.

 

[Pubey]

People of Clacton - a reminder...

 

[dloman]

Strangely i was sure it was today and is! but just pulled up the BBC website and cannot see any mention of it whatsoever, very odd.

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Strangely i was sure it was today and is! but just pulled up the BBC website and cannot see any mention of it whatsoever, very odd.

go to news, then politics. It is there, but you do have to search for it

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Strangely i was sure it was today and is! but just pulled up the BBC website and cannot see any mention of it whatsoever, very odd.

Because 'right wing MP looks to remain a right wing MP' shouldn't be news.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Well, they decided, and made an historic decision when they did. I would have thought Labour would have expected to beat the Tories into 2nd place with Carswell retaining his seat under a different party banner.

 

[Blueronron]

Just a thought if NF is so confident of UKIP being the new power, why not himself stand in next election against Milliband on Milliband turf?

This result will shake up the three parties as GE is so close now

Not sure we can read much into by elections as normally its a protest vote, but either way you look at it, it will wake up the main parties to listening to voters in deprived areas

UTS

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Carswell's majority didn't change. It doesn't seem historic when the sitting MP gets voted back in. If it had been a longer term UKIP member or a new face then fair enough but really this 'historic' vote is one for no change.

 

[dloman]

Carswell's majority didn't change. It doesn't seem historic when the sitting MP gets voted back in. If it had been a longer term UKIP member or a new face then fair enough but really this 'historic' vote is one for no change.

What is perhaps more telling is the result of the other by-election in the Labour stronghold of Heywood. They held on by just 600 votes with UKIP taking 39% of the vote and in a strange way this result is more of a wake up call to all three parties than the Clacton one.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

This result and the "almost win" loss at Heywood has shaken the big two.
Tories will make bigger scare noises about Labour and how voting UKIP will let them in to ruin economy and cave in to EU at every turn.
Labour will state the opposite and that a vote for UKIP in "their" seats is a vote for Tories and NHS stripping and social bigotry.
IMO both red and blues will continue to show their fear and enforce realisation by most voters that too often the real, central worry to the politicians is to their gravy train, ego fueled, pigs at the trough lives.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Carswell's majority didn't change. It doesn't seem historic when the sitting MP gets voted back in. If it had been a longer term UKIP member or a new face then fair enough but really this 'historic' vote is one for no change.

It has to be historic, it can't be anything but when it is UKIP's first elected MoP. I definitely agree with dloman's comment also concerning the other by-election in Heywood. Labour are slipping and unless they get rid of Wallace, there doesn't seem to be any way they could possibly win the forthcoming GE.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Just a thought if NF is so confident of UKIP being the new power, why not himself stand in next election against Milliband on Milliband turf?

This result will shake up the three parties as GE is so close now

Not sure we can read much into by elections as normally its a protest vote, but either way you look at it, it will wake up the main parties to listening to voters in deprived areas

UTS

Milliband turf is Primrose Hill in London, not Doncaster.

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Historic on a technicality but Clacton voted in the guy who was already their MP. Let's see how UKIP do when they put up new candidates rather than asking people to vote for their current MP.
44% swing away from the Tories in the seat they lost, 18% swing away from Labour in the seat they won.
A new party will always take votes from existing parties but one party will be much more effected by the others now - and it ain't Labour.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

The good people of Clacton are voting today. That being the case and with the polls suggesting a landslide, may I just say one thing,




Get your wallet out migrate.

Interestingly,the population of Claction is 97% white.

 

[Blueronron]

Milliband turf is Primrose Hill in London, not Doncaster.

That doesnot answer my question,if NF thinks he can land his tanks on labours front lawns, then why not meet him head to head, is there a ruling that he cannot contest EM turf in an election?

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

That doesnot answer my question,if NF thinks he can land his tanks on labours front lawns, then why not meet him head to head, is there a ruling that he cannot contest EM turf in an election?

Maybe he is hoping Ed will defect - that's the best way to win an election - get a load of MPs to join your party!

 

[Blueronron]

Mr Reckless will be a good pointer in how things pan out for UKIP next month, two things will the Tory/UKIP follow him and the main parties will be prepared for a political fight

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Interestingly,the population of Claction is 97% white.

Doubt if there'll be many migrating from there.:nope: