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Originally Posted by Hugh
Not sure if you can count never having an MP elected in a by-election or General Election in the Labour heartlands as "did very well"...
In fact, they’ve only had 2 MPs elected in by-elections (when Carswell and Reckless resigned), and only 1 in a General Election (Carswell, who has since re-joined the Conservatives).
No UKIP candidate, who wasn’t already the sitting MP previously for another party, has ever won a seat in the House of Commons (no matter how many times (7) NF tried).
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UKIP did enough to force a referendum, The BNP & UKIP which you would describe as far right outdid LibDems in many constituencies and in local elections did even better.
To discount this as an MP’s numbers game would be very foolish. Parliament and the establishment ignored this threat and feeling and what did we get? Brexit.
To ignore this shows you are as out if touch in your ivory tower as most of Westminster.
It’s Hilarious.
Westminster and the Establishment facilitated this fiasco by ignoring large swathes of the electorate that had valid concerns, concerns that were preyed upon by UKIP and the far right.
And now after the result how do they intend to adress those concerns? By ignoring the electorate. Stupid is as stupid does.