Typical Tories. They don't win the election with a landslide and so they blame UKIP for taking their votes.
According to The Telegraph UKIP "may inadvertently have handed the pro-European Liberal Democrats the possibility of a role in government."
The truth is the Tories lost themselves an outright victory in this election because of Call Me Dave's cowardice in refusing to make an announcement on smoking choice for pub landlords and customers who have flocked to UKIP's ranks, because of its pub policy, and a referendum on the EU to end the bitter dispute on this issue once and for all. Had Dave made clear the Tories would address both of these issues and the party would have won with a very clear majority. It is no good blaming the voter for voting elsewhere because the Tories haven't offered the voter the choice that the voter wants.
It's certainly not worked out that UKIP took Tory votes in my constituency. We booted out St Gillian of Merron, NuLab Govt chief health persecutor, and voted in Tory Karl McCartney, and in Louth and Horncastle, the UKIP vote was down, the Tory vote up by several thousand. Why are the Tories not blaming the BNP for taking their votes when the BNP is UKIP's closest political rival and not the sitting Con MPs in any other UK constituency?
Opinion seems very divided on UKIP's role in this election. An obvious Tory supporter was saying on Newsnight last night that the UKIP vote had collapsed in this election. The Cons can't have it both ways. Either UKIP took their votes - or the UKIP vote collapsed.
The public wanted a hung parliament because it wanted None of The Above. Maybe, just maybe, if we have another election very soon, the smaller parties and independents - and there were hundreds of them - might not be able to afford to stand again so soon. Therefore the race will be limited to the big three parties. Dave will have his chance to show he listened to the voter on smoking choice and EU membership, and he might just be surprised to find he can win the election, get the dictator and tyrant Gordon Brown out of office, and win with the full support of the majority of British people.
