Do you know anyone in real life who votes for UKIP?

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And if so, do you judge them?

If you're a UKIP supporter yourself, are you happy to declare it in public/at work?

I haven't yet (well I think!) meet anyone who votes for this party. Someone from FB linked something from UKIP FB page disagreeing with it. This lead me to their page. The supporters of this party come across as thick (going by the FB page)

I can't believe this is the same party that was lead by that talk show host. Silk something.

Anyway that's my opinion but my questions above still stand.
Thanks.

No, wasn't referring specifically to you bb. There are a few, though.

I do worry that many policies such as abolition of most employment law are very ill thought through, though.

Woowoo I assume that as I have stated my qualifications, you will give them credit? I shouldn't have to do that of course, but I know how MMN works.

Absolutely I will give them credit. I have read many of your posts with interest before, and you are the first person here to have actually addressed the point I raised. I cross posted with your first post I think, and then went out.

You are making sense. I agree that compulsory would always be wrong, and I agree that one size never fits all.

I was just saying that from what I had read, I hadn't seen anything that needed to be feared, and that looking at providing communities for those with LDs who want to use them is not automatically an awful thing.

First link doesn't work
Who, precisely, is Johnny Void and on what precisely does he (or she) base his blog?
Third link: returns a total blank.

Nothing there to help me I'm afraid.

'Local ukip councillor, lovely guy'. That's an oxymoron if I've ever seen one.

Such breath-taking arrogance! Obviously, the author of that comment knows nothing about UKIP and/or is a tribalist leftie. UKIP are becoming popular because they are right! The speak common sense, instead of the PC nonsense we have become used to and to which some people give blind, unthought-through obedience!. UKIP are NOT racist, contrary to the slur put about by lefties.

I have yet to hear anyone calling UKIP racist able to demonstrate their accusation. When asked to do so, they run off! I used to be Conservative, but they have betrayed their supporters, as have Labour and the LibDems. I would never join a party that is at all racist, which is why I despise the BNP.

Before the usual hair-trigger dismissal of the party you know nothing about, I suggest you read their documents, rather than blindly following the left-wing rhetoric.

The two and half main parties are all pro-EU, therefore they offer no choice, hence UKIP's popularity.

Telling blatant lies about UKIP only increases their support!

Les :)

UKIP are becoming popular because they are right!

They are more popular than anyone will admit to because of ^^.

I know people who voted for Godfrey Bloom. They think the media takes him the wrong way.

I don't discuss politics with them.

I don't but I understand why people are voting for them. After years of 'you're racist if you don't want unlimited immigration', people can finally talk about it sensibly.

I will be voting UKIP because there are swathes of people unrepresented by the grey suited sycophants we have in at present.

It's lazy and just a silencing tactic to call them all racists/homophobes and sexists.

There are two people in my village from different households who work in Central Government. They both intend to vote UKIP.

He is about 40 with a wife and two small children. She is about 50 with a husband and no children.

I don't speak to either of them. We fell out over something else, but this is one reason why I don't miss either of them.

I think that if they did they would have more sense than to admit it in my presence as I'm very pro-Europe.

My oldest friend votes UKIP, her H BNP.

I am rabidly left wing (not sure I'm a tribalist leftie mind, LMAO- always funny when people feel they can tell others they are wrong, instead of simply different opinioned or has different experiences)., but OTOH I have known her 30 years and we've watched each other's children grow up. She is however concerned about their benefits policies I know, and as a carer I am glad about that. I'd struggle to think she was against disability provision (and Farage himself told me he was against the DDA), and carer's provision.

We simply NEVER discuss politics any more. I did get into a nasty row with a UKIP supporter on her H's FB page about some horrible anti-Islam crap,and the supporter turned out to be my first cousin (huge family!), and one who has lived abroad for the past decade, which I found somewhat amusing and ironic!

There's a lot of UKIP back home, rural area / low level of immigrants so little actual fact to base opinions on (I have family members who have never met a Muslim and think they are all Taliban) / etc. I now live in a multi cultural area and much prefer it.

Id rather be in Europe than out.

I am against the EU because I believe it to be undemocratic, wasteful, bureaucratic and a gravy train.

interesting

The only UKIP supporter I know is the bloke from down the street. He used to be a Tory until he tried to get selected for a council seat and failed miserably. He's a nice enough chap as long as you don't try to use words of more than 3 syllables

Bless, I actually quite like him. He works in 'the City' (doing what I've never found out) and always seems really surprised on the days he goes into work really early and sees me on the same train. He just can't get it into his head that someone working in the public service starts before 9 and gets home after him.

My cousins dp supports BNP - he is a cock in every aspect of his life.

No. However the chattering classes pretending immigration and welfare is a issue for the working class will only see there popularity rise

My dad and his mates will certainly vote UKIP btw he is black

An old schoolfriend posted on Facebook that he intended to vote UKIP. He has spent the last few years flying around the world working illegally (and surfing) in various hot, Eastern countries but was disgusted to find so many 'coloured' people in his home town when he came home for Christmas. He couldn't see the irony of his post. I de-friended him shortly after that.

My stepsister and 2 daughters are UKIP councillors oh the shame, me being another rabid left winger

Would it not be unnerving to find you are the minority within your own home town?

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My stepsister and 2 daughters are UKIP councillors oh the shame, me being another rabid left winger
bet bbqs are a hoot! May i ask do you feel they are racist .?

I know a few people who are adamant they are going to vote for UKIP.
One of them used to vote BNP but has decided UKIP is more suitable now.

One of them is very vocal of her support for UKIP.

The only things these 2 women have in common is that they both believe that stopping all immigration would solve 99% of the UK'S problems.

Neither of them are actually interested in any other policies UKIP have and are only fixated on the immigration aspect.

I do judge them, yes.

I find myself wishing there was a system where we all lived under the rules of whichever party we voted for in the election for the term. So if those women want to vote for UKIP, they could live with UKIP policies for 5 years.
Before anyone says this isn't possible, I know that, it is purely wishful thinking on my part.

One of those women is single, unemployed and the other is a SAHM who lives with her DH.

However the chattering classes pretending immigration and welfare is a issue for the working class will only see there popularity rise

This all day long.

Have not voted yet but fully intend on doing so. Why on earth would I be bothered about people knowing that I vote for them? Why would anyone think the party are racist? I'm not racist but agree with everything UKIP says about immigration, the country has lost control.