Ukip hit by poll slump

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. It seems that what goes up can come down. The latest poll shows Ukip slumping from 18 points back down to 12. This is a big fall.
Lib Dem activists – both of them – are online partying, because the ICM poll for the Guardian also shows them level pegging again with Farage's forces. It is a measure of the long-term success of Nick Clegg's strategy that the party now regards being on a par with a new party with no MPs as a cause for a celebration. But there you go.
It will be fascinating to see how the Ukippers react to this development. Will they say "it's just one poll", which is the kind of spin the political establishment falls back on when it sees a poll it doesn't like? Or perhaps they'll say other polling organisations have them higher, but that might sound a little like nitpicking, as though they're getting overly obsessed with opinion polls – and perhaps even focus groups. They hate it when other parties like the Tories do that …
Or perhaps the previous ICM poll really was a rogue or a fluke, and 12 is simply a more accurate representation of the level of support the party commands. If that is the case then Ukip support may have hit a plateau, which would mean it has lost momentum and is struggling to break out much beyond its core vote.
As I keep pointing out, anywhere between six per cent and 10 per cent, or 12 per cent, would still be at least a couple of million voters in England and enough at the general election to cause absolute havoc for the Tories. But the idea – which seems to be the view favoured by some hardline Ukippers – that this insurgent force is taking on the characteristics of a great soaring, political movement that is going to keep climbing until it produces a massive popular uprising, a millennial cleansing and then an entirely "new politics" in which BLIAR and all the others are put on trial for treason, may turn out to be balls.
What seems much more likely is 10 per cent of the vote, a Labour government and no referendum on membership of the European Union. Just saying.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100221285/ukip-hit-by-poll-slump/

Can't stand them..They are a nasty bunch of far right racists..xenophobes..homophobes and as Cameron has said as well 'Fruitcakes..loons and closet racists'

..But if their existence will bring about a majority Labour government the next time around by splitting the Tory vote then perhaps us lefties shouldn't be complaining too much.

....And another thing that really gets my goat is that the Tories voted with the Labour government in favour of the Iraq war something that these idiots forget!

Do any in the US refer to George Bush as being a war criminal for invading Iraq?

Yes, indeed. Bush was so stupid, he invaded the wrong country. He reminds me of a local truck driver who recently drove up a mountain road that was closed for repairs. He ignored the signs. When he realized his mistake and tried to turn around, he turned his truck over and spilled his load. He was interviewed by a reporter and said that, yes, he saw the signs, but his GPS said he had to go that way. That's Bush in a nutshell. LOL

Lurker wrote:Yes, indeed. Bush was so stupid, he invaded the wrong country. He reminds me of a local truck driver who recently drove up a mountain road that was closed for repairs. He ignored the signs. When he realized his mistake and tried to turn around, he turned his truck over and spilled his load. He was interviewed by a reporter and said that, yes, he saw the signs, but his GPS said he had to go that way. That's Bush in a nutshell. LOL

Wasn't there a rumour that the only reason that the young George Bush only invaded Iraq was because George Bush senior didn't go all the way to Baghdad after the first Iraq war and the invasion of Kuwait and then there were some attempts made on his life or something?

Yeah, he had a personal grudge against Saddam. Saddam had a picture of Bush senior on the floor to the entrance of a building so that everybody walked on his face that entered and exited. Junior didn't like that.

....Shouldn't really laugh but that's what happens when you fly a UKIP flag and it got caught in the planes machanics

Yep! I believe Bush talked publicly about invading Iraq as early as 1999.

That was a spiffing day out wasn't it Michael

Lurker wrote:Yeah, he had a personal grudge against Saddam. Saddam had a picture of Bush senior on the floor to the entrance of a building so that everybody walked on his face that entered and exited. Junior didn't like that.

Hmmmm....Knew that it was probably a personal vendetta or something!

.....That saying though Saddam did indeed gas the Kurds.

True, but he did keep Iraq stable and allowed the Christians there to worship without being persecuted. That is not the case today. Iraq is a cesspool now, thanks to Bush.

Lurker wrote:True, but he did keep Iraq stable and allowed the Christians there to worship without being persecuted. That is not the case today. Iraq is a cesspool now, thanks to Bush.

Agreed!

Too many lives lost.

for the Iraq war and he is still making money off the suffering of people even today.

This is the problem our world, it will never change with these mentally deranged puppets allegedly calling the shots, with their rich psychopaths pulling the strings.

Iraq is in tatters, the woman have no freedom at all. Even the men have to live as they are forced too and repeating the same words, exactly as the fanatics would expect to say. It is a bit like a tape recording listening to them they are so all so terrified.