"As for Rankin, not much love lost there" - lmao - thank you for your reasoned rebuttal.
Re Tony Blair - just because you don't agree, doesn't mean it is untrue - I disagree with some of TB's policies, but I do believe he means well, on the whole.
You keep stating "your party" & "your own MP"; no party is my party - I do not pay subscriptions to any political party.
Real debate? - driving out anyone who disagrees with you - real debate.
Luuuuuurve the way you keep using "deceit" - how about the deceit of the Tories who called anyone who spoke out of line in the 80's "traitors", yet turned round and did the same thing in the 90's - or was that "principles"?
Good luck in getting your first Westminster seat, as unfortunately, in 2005, out of the 495 candidates you put up, you won zero. And I hope you don't lose any more London Assembly members or Euro MP's, like the last two who are no longer UKIP MEPs (Robert Kilroy-Silk & Ashley Mote).
ps Pass on my congratulations to Nigel Farage on becoming the new Party Leader - he must have been pleased to get 44% of all the votes cast in this election (total of 7574, including 169 spoiled votes). It must have been nice to get that percentage, as his record in UK Parliament elections wasn't quite that good - to wit
Eastleigh by-election, 1994 - 952 votes, 1.4%
Salisbury, 1997 general election - 3,332 votes, 5.7%
Bexhill and Battle, 2001 general election - 3,474 votes, 7.8%
South Thanet, 2005 general election - 2,079 votes, 5.0%
Bromley and Chislehurst by-election, 2006 - 2,307 votes, 8.0%
Even in the MEP elections, he came second - it must be nice for him to win one outright for a change, even if it was with the voting turnout of a local council ward.
