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Think people are writing off UKIP too quickly. The party that is on the brink of extinction and irrelvance in the years ahead is the Lib Dems, because they are no longer the main third party protest vote movement in by-elections and have just lost most of their core rural base of support that guaranteed them a reasonable number of seats.

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Think people are writing off UKIP too quickly. The party that is on the brink of extinction and irrelvance in the years ahead is the Lib Dems, because they are no longer the main third party protest vote movement in by-elections and have just lost most of their core rural base of support that guaranteed them a reasonable number of seats.

Lib dems are watered down Tories, the left wing of them. The kips are the right wing of the Tories. They are both as insignificant as each other. Neither of them will be big enough to challenge the Tories, both make excellent bed partners, nothing more nothing less.

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Think people are writing off UKIP too quickly.

Outside of winning that one MEP their brand doesn't seem to work in Scotland.

Even more so when the said MEP chap came out the closet AFTER the event.

I doubt the LBGTI scene appeals to your average rightwing let send Johnny Foreigner home Scottish Unionist.

Could be wrong though.

If anything ukip's Scottish attempts at the May election just helped fragment the unionist vote even further.

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Lib dems are watered down Tories, the left wing of them. The kips are the right wing of the Tories. They are both as insignificant as each other. Neither of them will be big enough to challenge the Tories, both make excellent bed partners, nothing more nothing less.

Grimbo

Don't think it's true that all kippers are (economically) to the right of the Tories. Lots of disaffected northern working class voters went UKIP and they probably mistrust neoliberalism (and with it the EU.) Certainly the leadership is almost pathologically pro-big business but the voters, not so much.

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