Hong Wu wrote:OK man, I get it. I'm not from the UK and so I don't know the difference between House of Commons, House of Lords, European Parliament and the many assemblies mentioned in Wikipedia. Unlike some people on this forum, I'm willing to admit it when I make a mistake instead of just disappearing into the woodwork until I feel like trolling again. We all know which people I'm talking about.
My main point though is not about the state of the UKIP, it's that Labour is doing a historically poor job, the Liberal party in Canada may face the prospect of getting wiped out and now, only 43% of Democrats think having rich people is a good thing, which is a dramatic drop from less than 10 years ago. I think the Democrats are headed in the same direction.
Since you mentioned the House of Lords...
Tories - 243 Lords
Labour party - 186 Lords
Crossbenchers - 182
Lib Dems - 98
Non affiliated 29
UKIP- 3 Lords (no that isn't a typo, 3)
(I can't be arsed to list any more of the tiny irrelevant parties)
Well done UKIP, 3 whole lords out of a total 780 seats! Well done!
European Parliment
Labour - 20 (the highest number of MEP's no UK party has more, Labour are in the lead.
Tories -18
UKIP - 18
(can't be arsed to list the rest)
Maybe local councils might help you out?
Tories - 9081
Labour - 6,470
Lib Dems - 1,870
SNP - 424
Plaid Cymru - 200
Green - 196
DUP - 131
UKIP - 125So yes clearly it just the house of commons where UKIP are irrelevant turds, not the whole British political system.
Please give me more of your
expert analysis, why do you you think Labour is doing badly historically poor job (since you think a nothing party like UKIP is powerful and influential this should be interesting).
As for your democrat statistic surely if some people in the Democrat party have finally noticed that worshiping the idle rich is not a good thing, that shows that the left is succeeding in changing the Democrats (a party that has historically been very right wing, see Obama or either of the Clintons). It isn't evidence that it is failing.
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