c/pin from my fb as to why the ukip hype aint shit
- All this talk about UKIP domination is somewhat overegged (or, if you're being cynical, total bullshit and a great scam to sell papers) - projected national vote share this time round was: LAB 31% CON 29% UKIP 17% LIBDEM 13% OTHERS 10%, their vote share in the local elections last year was 23%, or down by 6% this year. Oops.
- UKIP hasn't picked up overall control of any councils, and only seem to have won 0-5 councillors in most authorities, meaning that their actual influence will be limited if any at all. Only exception I can see to this is Basildon where they won 12 out of 40, but who gives a fuck about Basildon really.
- UKIP is an almost total non-presence inside London, a major issue for them if this bears up in the general. In their own words: they had difficulty appealing to the "educated, cultured and young."
http://ind.pn/1jJBuze Quite.