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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #125 on: October 18, 2016, 09:35:07 AM »
I note from BBC Scotland that Coburn's thinking of putting his name forward. Surely not even UKIP would be daft enough to vote for him?
Who knows, we could well end up with a plethora of parties of one member

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #126 on: October 18, 2016, 04:58:02 PM »
Hopefully Ukip will implode & their votes will go back to Lib Dems, or Greens.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #127 on: October 18, 2016, 05:00:11 PM »
Hopefully Ukip will implode & their votes will go back to Lib Dems, or Greens.
back? I wouldn't have thought that's where their main amount of votes have come from.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #128 on: October 18, 2016, 05:50:13 PM »
Hopefully Ukip will implode & their votes will go back to Lib Dems, or Greens.

I think that most of UKIP's vote came from uneducated, elderly Conservatives and tribal "working class" Labour voters.
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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #129 on: October 18, 2016, 07:49:55 PM »
Hopefully Ukip will implode & their votes will go back to Lib Dems, or Greens.
"back to" ? ? ? ? They never came from them in the first place.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #130 on: October 18, 2016, 08:04:16 PM »
Hopefully Ukip will implode & their votes will go back to Lib Dems, or Greens.
I think the very last places that UKIP voters would likely have transferred their allegiance from would be either LibDem or Green.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #131 on: October 23, 2016, 11:44:33 AM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37744003

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #132 on: October 23, 2016, 12:03:27 PM »
I think the very last places that UKIP voters would likely have transferred their allegiance from would be either LibDem or Green.

UKIP has lost it's raison d'etre. Some of it's less looney supporters will return to the Tories while the less savoury elements will crawl back into the woodwork, only to be seen occasionally in dark corners of pubs making racist remarks.
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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #133 on: October 23, 2016, 12:29:47 PM »
UKIP has lost it's raison d'etre. Some of it's less looney supporters will return to the Tories while the less savoury elements will crawl back into the woodwork, only to be seen occasionally in dark corners of pubs making racist remarks.

You could be right, one hopes it will disappear down the sewer from whence it emerged. >:(

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #134 on: October 23, 2016, 12:44:30 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37744003

Farage says he won't give his support to the woman candidate!

Perhaps he thinks she's unsuitable, rather than just her being a woman.

He did support the woman who stepped down.

It doesn't matter who's in charge IMO, because I don't consider voting for them an option.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #135 on: October 23, 2016, 06:04:09 PM »
Request to moderators:

Perhaps we should consider pinning this thread. The UKIP leadership question seems to come up very frequently.
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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #136 on: October 23, 2016, 07:11:38 PM »
Some of it's less looney supporters will return to the Tories ...
In view of the number of previous Labour voters it's attracted, I suspect that some of its less looney supporters will potentially return thence. 
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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #137 on: October 23, 2016, 07:26:08 PM »
Request to moderators:

Perhaps we should consider pinning this thread. The UKIP leadership question seems to come up very frequently.
That's a good idea, the odds are there'll be another leadership election early next year!!!

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #138 on: October 23, 2016, 07:29:59 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37744003

Farage says he won't give his support to the woman candidate!
It is not because she is a woman, as you seem to be implying, but because they have been not on good terms for awhile now.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #139 on: October 23, 2016, 07:35:37 PM »
That's a good idea, the odds are there'll be another leadership election early next year!!!
Though by that stage we may have to split the thread for different parties

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #140 on: October 23, 2016, 07:48:29 PM »
Though by that stage we may have to split the thread for different parties
I was only talking about UKIP; unless you were implying that they would have split by then - which is a strong probability.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #141 on: October 23, 2016, 07:50:50 PM »
I was only talking about UKIP; unless you were implying that they would have split by then - which is a strong probability.
yes, that was my implication

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #142 on: October 23, 2016, 11:31:48 PM »
yes, that was my implication
I predict that UKIp will split into about the same number of parties as it has members now.
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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #143 on: October 23, 2016, 11:34:34 PM »
I predict that UKIp will split into about the same number of parties as it has members now.
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« Reply #144 on: October 24, 2016, 08:33:37 AM »
Perhaps he thinks she's unsuitable, rather than just her being a woman.

He did support the woman who stepped down.

It doesn't matter who's in charge IMO, because I don't consider voting for them an option.

I just stated he wasn't giving his support to the woman candidate, I DIDN'T say it was because she was female!

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #145 on: November 21, 2016, 07:06:34 PM »
And now the old leader has gone from the party entirely

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38057251

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #146 on: November 21, 2016, 07:34:46 PM »

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #147 on: November 21, 2016, 07:37:18 PM »

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #148 on: November 21, 2016, 07:42:58 PM »
Or sensible.
No. If she came across as being mentally sure of herself then possibly yes, but she has seemed out of sorts for a while now this just sums up her recent disposition.

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Re: New UKIP leader
« Reply #149 on: November 21, 2016, 07:50:37 PM »
No. If she came across as being mentally sure of herself then possibly yes, but she has seemed out of sorts for a while now this just sums up her recent disposition.
was Stephen Woolfe suffering from this too in your 'expert' opinion?