Quite, only 3 significant (based on % of vote last time) parties are openly pro-Europe; Lib-Dems, SNP and The Green Party. It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that these could sweep up a decent chunk of that 48% AND the people who voted out and now regret it.
I do expect the Lib Dems to see an upturn in the number of seats returned on the basis of their clear stance on the EU, something Labour are lacking (amongst many things). But these will be evenly split between gains from Tories and gains from Labour. Labour will do appallingly because they don't have the compelling clear message on anything. Vote Tory if your primary tactical motive is to ensure Brexit happens in its current planned format. Vote Lib Dem if you want to take a stance againgst Brexit. Vote Green if you want to waste your vote. Vote UKIP if you don't really know what you are doing because all it can achieve is to take votes from the Tories who are the party to deliver the brexit you must want to be thinking of voting UKIP. Vote Labour if.....don't know. Half the Labour vote want Brexit. No idea what Labour would deliver on that. Many others are not as hard left as Labour currently is and feel disenfranchised. Not sure who's left.
NO. Vote Green if you genuinely believe that the human race is hell-bent on destroying the planet and want to stop it before it's too late. Vote for any of the others if you couldn't care less about it.
The Lib Dems are fighting the election on the basis of remaining in the EU. Tim Farron confirmed that yesterday.
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48percent voted stay 4i in a ge would. Be a landslide Sorry to be pedantic here but a vote for ukip is a vote for the extreme right wing of the tory party
[ Interesting - I wonder what food based fancy dress I could stand against that utter tw@t Michael Dugher in.
Having given it some thought, could do with UKIP doing surprisingly well in the Tory heartlands. Be really good of them to split the vote between them as there isn't that much difference in terms of policy.
Ukip should do well in the tory heartlands. Their policies represent the aspirations of the wealthiest. Percentiles of our communities. Normal people the other 75 percent don't want to see the NHS privatised for example. Farage. Has openly said he want an American style. He's Waltham care schema I'm afraid. Ukip are all out for themselves
I can't for one min understand why a traditional labour supporter would choose ukip a party whose policies are so optuse to the policies that they have historical been opposed to
That was my point. UKIP are what the extreme version of the Tory party would be like, so if they split the Tory vote, then the other parties could benefit. The question is how many traditional Labour supporters would abandon their roots and vote against everything they previously believed in. Is being in or out of Europe (and Labour have said they will honour Brexit) more important to people than the NHS, education, benefits, etc? However, with the mainstream news already starting with their propaganda its doubtful that the readers would know until it was too late.
Because Labour areas overwhelmingly voted for Brexit and UKIP are known as the ones wanting the hardest version. I don't think a lot of people will look more closely at their policies than that.
Actually, the version that Farage himself wanted was like the Norway model - less extreme than the one the Tories are currently pursuing. Although to be fair Boris did say we'd be staying in the single market in the referendum campaign, then forgot all about it afterwards (like the bus).