BGD 6,436 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39393213 UKIP's Douglas Carswell is quitting the party to become an independent MP and says he is doing so "amicably". The party's only MP defected from the Conservatives in 2014. Former leader Nigel Farage recently called on Mr Carswell to quit, accusing him of "actively working against UKIP". Party leader Paul Nuttall said Mr Carswell was "committed to Brexit, but was never a comfortable Ukipper". There are now calls within UKIP for the Clacton MP to call a by-election. UKIP donor Arron Banks had previously indicated he could stand against Mr Carswell at the next election amid a long-running feud over UKIP's future direction and strategy. I'm sure everyone had seen this coming, just the latest result of another round of infighting in the chaotic increasingly irrelevant UKIP 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
staffs riffraff 1,068 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Don't think you get it ukip achieved what it set out to do its in the name 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) Exactly, now we're leaving the EU they're becoming a political irrelevance Will you still be voting for them? Edited March 25, 2017 by BGD 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lenmcharristar 9,732 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Exactly, now we're leaving the EU they're becoming a political irrelevance Will you still be voting for them? just like labour under corbynlid Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDHUNTING 1,817 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Exactly, now we're leaving the EU they're becoming a political irrelevance Will you still be voting for them? UKIP has done what it was there for, it'll hang around a little while as they won't want see all they've done come to an end. And then as the country descends into more and more of a multicultural cess pit a new right-wing party will emerge to build on what was achieved. I don't know what your smiley faces are for the entire movement you back is in its death throes while mine and 99% of others on here's ideology is still in its infancy. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 I'll still be voting for them. mind you they're better off without that dope who couldn't make his mind up Labour down to 0 credible cabinet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 46,685 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Don't matter who you vote for as long as you don't vote for any of the traditional parties........that's the mistake folk keep making 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tatsblisters 9,527 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 I have accepted that UKIP are done but would never ever vote labour as long as i live if UKIP just go into obscurity like BNP did the rise in folk not bothering to cast their vote will be the outcome with me anyway 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackbriar 8,569 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Not really a surprise - the spat between Carswell and Farage has gone on for some time. I'm just surprised he didn't go back to the Tories, with his tail between his legs ! Any MP who changes party or becomes independent should have the decency to step down and stand for re-election anyway...... At the next general election, Labour will learn what it is to be "an irrelevance" ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Not really a surprise - the spat between Carswell and Farage has gone on for some time. I'm just surprised he didn't go back to the Tories, with his tail between his legs ! Any MP who changes party or becomes independent should have the decency to step down and stand for re-election anyway...... At the next general election, Labour will learn what it is to be "an irrelevance" ! Yep now they haven't got the cult of personality around their leader UKIP are tearing themselves apart, this is all Farage's doing really. Agreed, at the end of the day most people, however stupid it may be, don't really think about the candidate and just vote along party lines so if an MP leaves the party a by-election should be called. I wouldn't call remaining as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition being irrelevant and that is after all the worst case scenario for Labour at the next GE Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trappa 518 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Four days time the United Kingdom will start the "brexit", no need for UKIP per-se. Im relatively right wing, and they were my choice of party for most of my voting last few years, Im not sure who will get my vote now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Not really a surprise - the spat between Carswell and Farage has gone on for some time. I'm just surprised he didn't go back to the Tories, with his tail between his legs ! Any MP who changes party or becomes independent should have the decency to step down and stand for re-election anyway...... At the next general election, Labour will learn what it is to be "an irrelevance" ! Yep now they haven't got the cult of personality around their leader UKIP are tearing themselves apart, this is all Farage's doing really. Agreed, at the end of the day most people, however stupid it may be, don't really think about the candidate and just vote along party lines so if an MP leaves the party a by-election should be called. I wouldn't call remaining as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition being irrelevant and that is after all the worst case scenario for Labour at the next GE And the best case scenario they can hope for for a long time to come. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Seeker 3,048 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Labour as so irellivant, opposition party? Laughing stock, the Labour party is so fractured I doubt it will be able to recover for at least a decade. Suits me just fine 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BGD 6,436 Posted March 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) Yep Labour sure are in a right old mess at the moment. And yet UKIP still can't come close to them in terms of electoral success or membership numbers. Their leader couldn't even beat an unknown Labour candidate in what he called the "Brexit capital of Britain" I mean if you can't beat your opponent when they're in such a mess when can you beat them? Sad really. Edited March 25, 2017 by BGD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
walshie 2,804 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 You just waffle on Dave. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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