Reflections on Elections: UKIP wins the Euros and a raft of local council seats

(Before It's News)

It’s been a gruelling campaign season. As well as standing for council in my own Leeds ward of Guiseley and Rawdon, I’ve been working hard to support the campaigns of our Yorkshire MEP candidates since my own election as vice chair of my local UKIP branch. By and large it has paid off. Last night we took three MEP seats at the Yorkshire and Humberside Euro election count in Leeds town hall. In the local election I garnered 20% of the vote from a standing start, finishing five points behind Labour and 15 points behind the winning Tory candidate in a ward which didn’t have a UKIP candidate at either of the last two elections.

The feedback I got on the doorstep was very encouraging. There is good awareness of the issues, and a lot of people ‘get it’ with what UKIP is saying concerning the lack of accountability and control. The LibLabCon media slurs did have some impact though, and as one of my activists and I were putting up roadside signboards last week a father who was jogging past with his young son remarked; “Oh look, the racist party is out tonight’. It’s not nice to be on the receiving end of such comments. Unfair especially as UKIP enjoys more support from the ethnic minorities than the Conservative and LibDem parties put together.

Our branch fielded a full rack of 17 candidates in 17 wards on our side of the city, coming second in nine of them. In Farnley & Wortley, we came within 300 votes of winning against the Greens. Elsewhere we took a lot of votes from the main parties too. This is a great achievement and a good bounce on the springboard in the run-up to the General Election in 2015. We hope to get our first UKIP councillors into the chamber at Leeds next year.

Nationally UKIP got some great results across England and some wins in Wales, N. Ireland and now have an MEP in Scotland too. The only party to have representation in all four nations of the UK. The European Parliamentary elections have been extra-ordianary. UKIP is the first ‘minor’ party to win a nationwide election in 100 years, and the ‘Earthquake in British politics’ predicted by party leader Nigel Farage has occurred.

This despite the best efforts of the establishment and its media to smear UKIP as a ‘racist’ party. If it was, I wouldn’t be a member of it. After the results last night, one Labour MP, Sadiq Khan said UKIP is not racist – we don’t need to wonder why he didn’t speak up sooner. The squalid tactics of the political elite will not be forgotten or forgiven quickly by the millions of decent people falsely accused by the LibLabConBBC, and this is reflected in the stated intention of the majority of UKIP voters to stick with the party for the General Election.

2014 has seen the earthquake, 2015 will see the eruption of the volcano!

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