On The Daily Politics today, Douglas Carswell conceded that UKIP would not win the Oldham West and Royton by-election.
"We are very much the underdogs, but let's see what happens." We all know what that means.
Jim McMahon and Jeremy Corbyn are home and dry.
Jim McMahon and Jeremy Corbyn are home and dry.
And not winning this time will be the end of UKIP as an electoral party. It ought to become a thinktank or something.
Let me quote you from over on Comment is Free: "Ukip has never won a seat without the incumbent MP, and it lost even one of those two seats to that incumbent's former party once a General Election arrived. Despite being only 51, its supposedly popular Leader has already failed to enter the House of Commons on no fewer than seven occasions."
ReplyDeleteUKIP likes to pretend that it is a fairly new party, but in fact it is almost as old as the Lib Dems, who were in government at the start of this year, and who still have eight times more MPs than UKIP has. If the relentless anti-Corbynism of the media does not win it this seat, then it should just stop contesting First Past The Post elections, at least.
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