I Gave My Word The Newark By-Election Wouldn't Shock Me And It Didn't!

Did you stay up late to watch the results of the Newark By-Election?

Did you really think UKIP were going to take their first parliamentary seat?

If you thought Newark was going to fall, then you really need to think about this and all the Newark By-Election came down to was, who had the most skin in the game.

You will have most probably heard the statement, but when one group puts out 600 people and say the other groups put out 30 people, who is going to win?

It comes down to a bit of psychology, 600 people from one group makes the people of Newark feel special and they will likely vote in your favour as the view of the other groups is that you simply couldn't be bothered with us, so you don't really care about us.

I will say that UKIP do like to get people working and this perceived threat is definitely giving some people squeaky bums, there still no true data or statistics to say that UKIP are a major threat, it's all perceived and UKIP just like Blair like to use fear to induce shock and awe, as said before in a previous post, you can only shock people until the effect wears off. I think this is what is happening now.

All credit to the candidate, he will have put a certain amount of skin in the game to achieve his outcome.

Now we have to look at what 2015 will bring!

The Citadel Still Stands, Was It A Tremor Or A Murmur?

2014 was the year of UKIP, the rise of a protest party and that was about it, nothing really much to shout about.

Most results were already predicted, the slide of the Lib Dems, Labour and the Conservatives losing ground, but still i don't see myself shouting about anything.

All i see is that everyone who stood for election got so blindsided by UKIP and Nigel Farage that they forgot what they were doing and that is to win a election for their party.

Most Townhalls are still standing, UKIP only really took a handful of seats, they didn't take entire councils and in 2015 it is unlikely that they will get any MPs and that is how you judge your success, how many backsides you have on the benches in the House of Commons and in Councils around the country.

UKIP for me have limited appeal, they have limited policies and limited funds and no self respecting business owner would really fund them, i don't think they're fruitcakes in the way they've been portrayed, their election campaign was merely shock and awe when everyone else was hoodwinked into thinking something else.

UKIP remind me of the days of old, the protest vote for the BNP & National Front, two parties with limited appeal and policies, where are they now?

You don't have to be a mathematician to work out how UKIP work, they do the same as any other protest party, work areas of deprivation and poverty, promise the earth and don't deliver.

If your into UKIP i wish you all the best of luck, it's going to be a rocky road to find legitimacy, i don't think i'll be hearing the immortal words of "I vote UKIP because my mum, dad, aunt, uncle, parrot did, so do I!"