County Council elections on 2nd May

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23. UKIP are not going to be winning any Parliamentary seats

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anytime soon but they are going to take enough of the vote particularly from the Tories to make it well nigh impossible for them to win a General Election. The thing I noted about UKIP around here was that they have put in some ground work contesting all local by-elections right down to parish level, were reasonably well organised and appear to have targeted the seats which they won. I don't think their victory is going to be a flash in the pan and unless they make a complete lash up of it I expect them to repeat the performance by taking District Council seats from the Tories and Liberal Democrats in next years local election. BTW the wards UKIP won round here are not historically True Blue in the way that some more rural Sussex areas vote. This part of the Sussex Coast was a Liberal Democrat stronghold in the 1980s and 1990s when they ran all the local District Councils. If people are assuming that it is just blue rinse Tories voting for UKIP then they are not really paying attention.