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"Political Earthquake" - Nigel Farage "Big Winner" In Local Elections
Yesterday we highlighted the European people's growing 'revulsion' against Europe and overnight we got yet another confirmation that the status quo - despite record low bond yields and record high stock and real estate prices - are losing their grip on control. Having taken the lead in the polls last week, UKIP's Nigel Farage has scored a major victory in local elections in England with early results pointing to considerable gains for the euro-skeptic party:
- UKIP GAINS 20 SEATS IN EARLY ENGLISH LOCAL-ELECTION RESULTS
- U.K. TORIES LOSE 20 SEATS IN EARLY LOCAL-ELECTION RESULTS
As Reuters reports, one MP noted "I think Nigel Farage for quite a lot of those people is just a big sort of two fingers stuck up at what they feel is a sort of hectoring, out-of-touch elite."
Britain's anti-EU party UKIP made strong gains in local elections in England, siphoning support from Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives as it capitalised on discontent about immigration and mainstream politics.
The gains by the UK Independence Party, which wants Britain to leave the EU, will pile pressure on Cameron to toughen his approach to Europe and alarm some in his party who worry UKIP could scupper the Conservatives hopes of winning next year's national election.
The strong support for UKIP indicated by early local council results suggests the party could also do well in elections to the European Parliament, also held on Thursday.
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Farage told reporters he was cheered by the early results and thought they were a good platform to challenge for seats in the 2015 national election.
"Looking at the average vote shares across the country, and without wishing to count any chickens before they're hatched, it looks pretty good," he told reporters.
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"I think Nigel Farage for quite a lot of those people is just a big sort of two fingers stuck up at what they feel is a sort of hectoring, out-of-touch elite," Jeremy Browne, a Liberal Democrat lawmaker
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The European elections were held on the same day, but the results will not be announced until Sunday evening, in line with the rest of the EU. They will determine the political persuasion of Britain's 73 lawmakers in the 751-seat European Parliament.
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"There's been a vote for UKIP and that sends us a very clear message that people have concerns about immigration, about welfare, about schools and skills of course," said Michael Gove, the Conservative education minister.
"We will pay attention to those concerns."
Change - it appears - is coming.
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The demagogue parties being already in power. Labour.
Go Nigel Go!
Nigel's lacin' the 'skates, pads and jersey' to go play right guard in the professionals versus the EU bush league. Can't wait to watch him on the ice.
Protip: Don't forget to pass to the left and keep the stick tight and down. If you feel heat on you, come back in the fence and the defense will drop whatever is chasing you to put it the box. Try to get their star players over the line. Spit, name call, talk about their mother; doesn't matter. Get them to chase you so D can break their star roster like dry twigs and give their owner a stroke.
By game seven all they've got are professional bench warmer wearing double bladed skates and the rest are double fisting rye on the beach on medical leave watching bikini's.
Game on!
Yesterday in The Netherlands only 35% of the people showed up to vote and the winner is a pro-EU party.
Call me (them) stupid.
They want the EU Parliament weed tourism.
Those guys are smoking up a ton of shit over there. Listen to them talk.
That's because The Netherlands already had their "Farage Moment" twice (Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders).
When you figure out that your protest vote will only make another nutjob rich you won't do it a third time.
My condolences to the UK people: if you really think that your vote - no matter who you vote for - has ANY effect then you still did NOT wake up.
God you're just a slogan tosser. UKIP's positions, by the way, have zero to do with Muslim immigration you utter dolt. It is uncontrolled EU immigrations from southeastern Europe. Seriously, at some point you should stop posting to avoid further embarrassment.
lol, "slogan tosser" - aren't all voters inherently
slogan catchers?
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Hilarious double entendre. (Helpful hint for yanks [pun not originally intended, but hey, it fits, so why not?]: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tosser )
Now that's what I call a sticky situation.
ha, trust you to catch my layered memes!
works particularly well when spoken in accent'd-Nigel.
You discount the possibility of the no-vote, refraining from voting as a act of no confidence in the electoral system which has the premise that one must vote for one, or more, of the given options.
I will pass on the given opportunity to call you stupid.
A lot of people don't vote because they simply don't care and their lives aren't all that bad so.. The Dutch have seen their protest votes go to waste, most people enjoy a decent wage, and they aren't all that scared of muslims anymore, hence the no vote/liberal vote.
Stop calling people stupid. Trolls do that, and no-one wants to be seen as a troll.
In 'american' societies, that kind of motive for absence of voting is so feeble, you can sweep it away, in a vast 'american' move of hand, it does not exist.
'Americans' usually cease to vote when they are forced to admit they are no longer part of the winning sides, when no matter the vote they cast, they are thrown in the side of the loser.
That is when 'americans' no longer vote, when, no matter the vote they cast, they no longer see their personal situation improve when being on the winning side.
Loser even when casting the winner vote.
Why waste your time voting when Diebold can do it for you?
When voting gets that share of the loot so praised by 'americans', 'americans' never consider it a waste of time...
so now scotland yard will find child porn in Nigels computer?
Actually, I believe he will lose control of his vehicle randomly going over a cliff as it just happens to burst into flames....
I dont know but i do know "they" will spin the wheel of misfortune to descide what should happen to him cant have any of this going on
Right, this has got to be bad for business (rape, pillage, murder inc.)
Yea similar to Michael Hastings. Or they could just Breitbart him.
"Change -it appears - is coming. I hope against hope that this is so.
You need 100's of Nigel's for anything to change.
You need 100's of Ron Paul's for anything to change.
Conclusion: Nothing will change.
In America, we only have to use one finger to flip a bird, not two.
Yeah but our fingers are fatter.
and the British "double finger" gesture is way more rude than the one-fingered "flip the bird" gesture. the only gesture that is worse is the Nigerian 5 finger gesture
Wish he was running in the USA.
Ron Paul struck a chord with many but Farage has the charisma and oratory skills required to break through the dunderheads of the masses. Actually, he's quite entertaining as well as being right on much of the time. Look at Obama (well, that's painful I know), but he was an empty suit with oratory skills and it worked.
Results keep rolling in. UKIP has now picked up 115 local council seats with less than 50% counted. They had hoped for 90. I imagine they've won the European Parliament elections in Britain by these results but tallies on that not released until Sunday.
The British establishment is so pissed off. You should see the coverage on the MSM there. The Farage guy is treated even worse than Ron Paul. At least they've exposed themselves of being mouthpieces for the establishment and a good segment of the population isn't going along with the brainwashing. They continue using the "racist" meme for those opposing open door immigration policies -- just like here in the USSA. At least in Britain it has ceased to work.
It has never worked.
Racism is part of 'americanism'.
LOL, your as smart as a bag of rocks. Go back to Huffington Post, MoveOn or whatever slime pit you crawled out of.
I've just crawled back to the slime pit I crawled out of. How bizarre things can be.
waycism is nothing to do with calling a monkey a fucking monkey
Wasn't Nigel born in Hawaii? I'll photoshop him up a birth cert, rapido. It worked the last time.
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Next US census demographic choices ...
Are you?
Black
Hispanic
Democrat
Racist
The best part of the UKIP surge was watching the faces of the acolytes and suckups of the three main gangs (parties) i.e. Members of Parliiament as UKIP became all the media were talking about.
They were shocked. They knew there would be some statement made, but not that loudly.
The leaders of the three main gangs (parties) were being asked about UKIP first, then about how they did.
Watching the faces of those suckups, Euro-sluts and sellouts as UKIP owned the night made this election night, even though this isn't for the big prize (Westminster) the most satisfying in a very long while.
Yep, the other party's bigwigs see their future gravy train roll out of the station. When the politicians become unpopular or are tired and pass there sell by date, the parties ship them off to Europe AKA the Kinnocks ( retired with £10 million each and a nice pensions) and Ms Ashton ( yep the one talking about the snipers shooting both sides in the Ukrainian dispute in the Back). If you stab any of the party leadership in the back you are sent to Europe as punishment.
Can't wait to have the brits out of the EU. They are not european and they are just a ball and chain locked to european own development. But i'm afraid that even farage is just one more that wants to interfere in Brussels like all the other ones. We want a Europe brits-free.
As a nation we're like a Jack Russel dog, a tough little bastard that kills rodents.
I agree 100%
"just a ball and chain locked to european own development"
No that would be socialist policies bent on centralizing power that are your ball and chain. It's all collapsing now, unsustainable, unwise, evil. Out with the beggars and theives in with the real citizens.
You mean socialist like the Bank of England and the British Government that nationalized already bankrupt banks like Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, HBOS and Northern Rock? All of them are still global players that compete with the help of the british taxpayers money in the financial markets. Uk is a communist country!! :)
The Brits have always had a role to play in Europe. Now they are leading the way for all Europeans, like out of Brussels.
Who charged them with this mission? Can't just leave and let the other countries to decide of their own?
They are not european and they are just a ball and chain locked to european own development.
The best people to ask about 'european development' are the youth in Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland.
But that would entail their Eurocrat overlords like Mr Barroso giving a single hoot about their lives.
Another 'jobs summit' please, Mr Barroso, and quick!
That's true, and don't forget the youth in Italy. But on the other hand there are youth in Germany, Finland, Netherlands, Austria and others that are in a much better shape. Maybe the problems in the peripherical countries are not only the eurocrats but mostly their own governments.
Of course the eurocrats like these ones don't help at all.
But instead to flee the EU project i prefer to try to fix it. Call me utopic if you like.
That would be the Brits who saved Europe from Napolean and then saved Europe from Hitler.
I appreciate that ultimately it was Russia and the US that overwhelmed Hitler, but had Britain not held out there would have been no platform for an invasion by the US and Hitler would have won a one-front war with Russia.
European dictators always consider Britain to be "not european", which is why Barroso, et al are of that opinion. tato is obviously in thrall to the European dictators of the EU.
In the '60s it was the french president De Gaulle who vetoed the admission of the UK in the EU and I don't remember anyone calling him a dictator. London is out of most of the european treaties: Euro, Schengen, fiscal compact, european social charter. They are just uninterested in a better european integration. I love UK and I admire the UK people. I will spend my holiday in England next summer. I just say that they don't feel european at all. Ask anyone in continental Europe and most of the people will tell that brits are not european, at least in the EU meaning of the word. If they want to leave the EU is their business. But why they would like that other countries should follow their path? Just leave and leave us in peace.
they need to gain seats in 2015 for westminister.
that is infinitely more important than gaining seats in brussels.
right now they hold 0 - that's right - 0 in the commons.
Reading Huff Post in the UK over the last 2 weeks and they have been doing their best to make Nigel and UKIP look bad. Today well it appears their efforts are for nought.
I love it when a leftie plan goes wrong.
Huff Post recently talked about Menstrual Leave/Sick days, I guess all the Metro sexual guys at Huff Post are having a Menstrual fits now.
Equal days off ? everyone gets in the action.
Wow! UKIP takes 25% of popular vote! A huge step towards legitimacy & a real threat to the 'brainless/spineless' Marxist visionaries!
Too bad and too late for the Netherlands. Astonishingly the Muslims now outnumber the Dutch in their own country! Game over I'm afraid! Fair to expect the Muhammadians to ruin their 'new' country like the rotten ones they came from! They sure ain't gonna improve them!
Godspeed to Nigel! U r da' man!
"Euroskeptics" will need to be rounded up and placed in re-education camps.
Democracy is so yester-year.
Forward! To a global police state run by bankers !
Who in the hell thinks its a good idea to give up one's country to creepy collection of foreigners to set YOUR laws, policies, rules & regulations? Only a certified fool or politician would sell themselves & country out for a few votes & nothing else!
' Any society that who give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither & will lose both!' - Benjamin Franklin
FYI I am totally taking credit for inventing the term "Farage Punk". My latest on this election (keep in mind my primary audience is members of the Virginia GOP) http://thebullelephant.com/farage-punk/
Go UKIP / Nigel.
IF Scotland chooses to bail and go it alone it could mark a crossroads for little Britain.
1. Nigel has been banging on about the sovereign debt thing and other issues for some time now.Everything he predicted has occurred.He literally has become the little kid who points and says "The Emperor has no clothes".He objects to the waste of UK taxpayers money as contributions to the Brussels hookers and blow economy.
2.Were the EU area booming along at 20% per annum growth,then the UK would have nothing to fear from a tidal wave of legal immigrants.This growth has not happened and figures show that much of the boom era (2000-2005) was due to construction in the Spanish residential housing sector,funded by cheap American currency being borrowed and re-injected into this area (a very large bubble).
As with Ireland,the mantra seems to have been "If you build it they will come".
3.I find it tiresome that the hon. Mr.Farage has been tarred with the extremist,racist,scumbag,etc. brush.His local townhall orations have well attended and he articulates the fears and insecurities of his constituents.Is he not doing his job by representing them? I keep reading the word "fringe" but certainly now it should be mainstream? I think alarm bells are ringing all over Fleet Street,if it still exists.
4.I remember a few years ago they were having a pass the hat (not the first!) party for some southern Europe basketcase and then Finland raises her hand and says "Sure,but I want collateral for the Bonds".Then everyone says"I want collateral too!!" And this was before the Cyprus bail-in happened.This EU wide Bank insolvency issue is not going to disappear by itself.The EU area Banks bought alot of crap securities during the Bull market era and now the EU taxpayer has to pay up.Nigel points this fact out repeatedly.Does this make him a fringe extremist?
5.Nigel very courageously went to Scotland even though he expected a hostile reception.He was barracaded in a Pub in Edinburgh by an unruly mob which it took the police some time to disperse.This was NOT a spontaneous event but was planned and organized.Although I respect the rights of free speech of the common man,it seems clear the objective was to keep him from meeting any supporters or ordinary Scots who wished to hear a non-standard viewpoint.Shame on the Scots who participated in this "rent a mob" thuggery.
No doubt they would be screaming holy murder if the situation were reversed.
6.Almost every time I watch his videos in the Europarliament I am reminded of the old story about the cocktail party going on with a 2000 pound elephant in the middle of the room,everyone walking past as if it is invisible.
Many are concerned abou the free movement Schengen these days, Cameron, Sarkozy, etc.
Some think Schengen supports slave labor across the EU, under the table tax free labor...similar to US-Mexico-Canada.
Rome fell when there were slaves doing almost anything/everything and the Phantom Legions defending its open borders.
Schengen may be required to keep the economies afloat...but may result in immoral conditions for undocumented workers.
Dismal.
Who runs Brussels ? unemployment among residents of Brussels is 20.4%
So much for UK left wing media branding him as a racist.
I have to vote in Austria.
I definitely vote FPÖ
Nigel is representing common sense. That is why he is so successful.
He does not need to be great, just has to be better than the status quo. Consider!
Arrayed against Farage is the ideological coalition responsible for destroying the middle class:
1) Standard "We are the World", Kumbaya, Left Wing politics that would gladly starve your children through economic neglect if it would also aid the anonymous "huddled masses" of the world
---AND---
2) Mainstream Economic Conservatives and Libertarian/Free Marketeers who applaud any policy that leads to an endless supply of 3rd world unskilled labor and 2nd World Skilled Labor.
These two ideological factions are in league across the entire Western World and they have authored an endless recipe for harm to working people. The most astonishing thing is that the oligarchs have (finally!) lost some measure of control over the message, at least in a few regions.
Like clockwork, expect the mainstream, oligarch-controlled media to diligently assassinate reform figures like Nigel Farage.
The Brits have always been suckers for snob appeal. That is demonstrated by their attitude towards continental Europe. Fine - Europe can do nicely without them.