It was without a doubt Labour was going to win the Barnsley Central by-election, but what wasn’t known was the margin and the performance of the other parties. The results are as follows for those who don’t know:
Labour-60.8% (47.3% in 2010)
UKIP-12.19% (4.7%)
Conservative-8.25% (17.3%)
BNP-6.04% (8.9%)
Independent (Tony Devoy)-5.23% (1.6%)
Liberal Democrat-4.18% (17.3%)
This represents nothing less than a whitewash for the Lib Dems, second place to sixth and losing their deposit is nothing less than humiliating. The Tories fared little better losing around half of their support. Yes, Labour was always going to win this seat, but what we have here is resoundingly bloody brilliant win as public opinion ever so gradually begins to swing against the Coalition.
Max
May I first congratulate the new Member for Barnsley.
I can only hope that people will wake up to the Lib/Lab/Con and vote for the only educated party which is for Europe, but against the EU!
Further comments can be found via my group on LinkedIn, The Free Europe Campaign.
Ben Buckland
UKIP
For anyone who is considering following Mr Buckland’s advice, I think you should know that in my first year the BNP and UKIP leaflets were delivered together by the same person.
UKIP. The middle-class version of the BNP