Possible election break through for UKIP
A new poll published this Monday suggests that the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) could be on the verge of an electoral breakthrough in the European elections.
UKIP is committed to a withdrawal from the European Union believing it to be: “A complete political union with all the main functions of national government taken over by the bureaucratic institutions of Brussels.”
In a study for the Daily Telegraph, pollsters YouGov found that of those who deemed themselves “very likely” to vote the UKIP came in third place with 18 points.
This would place them ahead of the Liberal Democrats who have been widely tipped to make electoral inroads in the elections.
The poll was though less dramatic when considering all responses, which placed UKIP fourth with 14 points with the Liberal Democrats on 18, Labour on 27 and the Conservatives on 28.
Respondents though indicated that they would vote differently in a general election with only four per cent then saying they would vote for UKIP.
Derek Clark, the UKIP’s national secretary, told politics.co.uk that they were delighted by the poll. He said they are: “Climbing through the charts as we knew we would, as 50 per cent of the country agree with us.”
In the 1999 European elections UKIP won three seats with seven per cent of the vote.
Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik said he was unconcerned by the poll. Speaking this morning to the BBC he said: “We can play the polls game if you want and I’ll cite one which gave us 27 per cent yesterday in a different poll, level pegging with the Government.”
