YouGov has just released a European Election voting intention poll and it has Labour in third behind UKIP. The poll has the Tories on 26, UKIP 18, Labour on 16, the Lib Dems 15, the Greens 10 and the BNP on 5. However, if those not certain to vote are included the numbers become the Tories 37, Labour 21, Lib Dem 19 and UKIP 8. So, who can get their vote out is going to be key. It is hard to imagin...

Surprised to see today's publicity concerning a suggestion that UKIP and the BNP should consider an electoral pact by which the two parties stand aside for each other in the next General Election. I hope its not true. UKIP are denying it. I hope its not a case of there being no smoke without fire. This story is very damaging to UKIP, and there is clearly a problem. Two members of UKIP's ...

On Monday, the Lib Dem’s chair of Communications Edward Davey wrote to the leader of UKIP Nigel Farage MEP to challenge him on failing to publish his own expenses, on the disgraceful voting record of his European Parliamentary Party, and on the shameful track record of his fellow parliamentarians. “UKIP MEPs have attacked others over their

Spotted coming out of a lift in the Welsh Assembly less than an hour ago, the Welsh Conservative's Head of Media, their new MEP, Kay Swinburne and John Bufton, the new UKIP MEP for Wales. It is nice of the Welsh Tories to take UKIP under their wing so early after the election. Who knew they had so much in common? Perhaps the Conservatives have ambitions of getting a second MEP after all.

How can anyone write about the 2004 European election results and not mention the most salient fact about them: that Ukip got 16.1% of the vote? That Ukip came third, pushing the Lib Dems into fourth place? When talking about the north-west region, how can you talk about keeping the BNP out without talking about who did keep the BNP out? Ukip, that is, with 11.7% of the vote. Just to remind everyo...

So what are we as Lib Dems going to say on the doorsteps to voters during the next General Election campaign to justify ourselves in reply to the ‘I voted Lib Dem to keep the Tories out’ challenge? I can imagine it will be a common enough question, especially in close Lib Dem/Conservative constituencies where

A YouGov poll suggests that the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition has the approval of 60% of the public – almost exactly the combined vote of the two parties in last week’s General Election. Of course, the reality is slightly more complex than this, with a significant minority of Labour voters approving and not every Lib Dem or

rochdale mbc result. Con 8909 Labour 8468 Lib Dem 8299 UKIP 7141 BNP 4905 Thanks to anonymous for posting this information half an hour ago. Be interested to know what the total of the other seven lists and the soloist was. If the eight NW seats were shared on the basis of these RMBC shares we'd get 2-2-2-1-1 with that last one being BNP. Fortunately this is the poorly run Lib Dem shambles th...

Per The Times Tory - 30% UKIP - 19% Labour - 16% Lib Dems - 12% Greens - 10% BNP - 5% Could the UKIP really beat Labour and the Lib Dems? It's still 11/8 at Ladbrokes. I want to know what the odds of the Greens beating them is. The SNP, interestingly, were predicted to win only one MEP which doesn't fill me with too much confidence but that can be put down to a UK focus rather than a Sco...

Mike Smithson at Political Betting is suggesting that the Conservatives will find it hard to win a “reasonable size” majority at the next general election - due to the number of Lib Dem MPs in the target seats. The reasoning behind this comes from the experience of the 1979 general election and the very small