The Mail on Sunday commissioned Survation to poll just over 1,000 people about how they would vote if a General Election was held this week.
The results?
LABOUR 37%
CONSERVATIVES 27%
UKIP 18%
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS 11%
(Survation interviewed 1,017 people on Friday Oct 11th)
That’s right, as Iain Martin wrote a few days ago, despite the over hyped Godfrey Bloom “meltdown” and several subsequent weeks of non mention in the media, UKIP’s polling is holding up very respectably.
Oddly enough, the Mail “forgot” to say much about this aspect of the poll, concentrating instead on the fact that most respondents supported Adam Afriyie ‘s idea of having a referendum on leaving the EU in 2014 rather than 2017.
Since the Mail has never been at all friendly to UKIP and has consistently sought to undermine the party with sneers and innuendo their lapse of memory is par for the course. But try to find any reference to this poll anywhere else in the media and you’ll draw a blank.
Hmmmmm…draw your own conclusions on this?
Meanwhile repeat after me
UKIP is just a flash in the pan so we’ll ignore them
UKIP is just a flash in the pan so we’ll ignore them
UKIP is just a flash in the pan so we’ll ignore them
Ah, media pundits and politicians, that must make you feel better…..
