In 37 minutes UKIP will have won a great victory. It will be a sign that things need not continue as they are, and that it is possible to change the political landscape by a peaceful, democratic revolution of ordinary people. UKIP has developed from a tiny fringe party with few supporters to a national political movement attracting millions of British votes, and causing the established parties increasing anxiety about the future.
In 37 minutes I am going to my local Polling Station and I will be voting in a secret ballot for two local councillors. I’ve done this many times before. As a young, foolish and idealistic adult I first voted for the Labour Party. But for most of my life I have voted for the Conservative Party, having realised at some point that not only could I not vote for Michael Foot, but that I fundamentally disagreed with what he was proposing.
In 37 minutes I will be voting again. But this time, and for the first time, I will be voting for UKIP, for the United Kingdom Independence Party. And it is the fact that an ordinary British Conservative voter is about to vote for UKIP which is a great victory. It means that, as far as this ordinary voter is concerned, UKIP should no longer be considered a fringe and ‘fruitcake’ option. Indeed voters who until recently felt that the three main parties were best able, though not always satisfactorily, to represent them, are clearly flocking to now support UKIP. When the main parties abuse UKIP voters as loonies and extremists they are clearly meaning to insult me. Was I a loony and an extremist when I supported them?
In fact this ordinary voter now realises that it is the policies of the main parties, of Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which are increasingly extreme and harmful to our British society.
In 37 minutes I will be voting for all the things I had expected of the Conservative Party, but which it has failed to deliver, and seems unwilling to ever deliver. I will be voting for British sovereignty, for an end to mass immigration, for an end to the multi-cultural experiment and to social engineering. I will be voting to put Britain first, our own nation and people. Not because I loath or hate the members of other nations and ethnicities. I don’t. But because I do love this country of ours and it has been painful to see it decline to rapidly in the hands of those who have been entrusted with its protection.
In 37 minutes UKIP wins a great victory. It wins my vote. But not only my vote. It will be winning the votes of millions of other British people, who like me had been consistent supporters of other parties. The little victories it is winning in the hearts and minds will add up to a greater victory in the nation at large. Not only today in the elections for councillors, but in the European and then the General Elections.
From little victories, great victories are born. Give me 37 minutes.
lucky bugger. You have the chance. No UKIP where I live. 🙁
I had two to vote for!
Precisely 50 minutes ago I did the same thing. After I had voted, the UKIP candidate came in to the polling station. I had never met him so we stepped outside for a chat. An intelligent, well educated long time ex Conservative Voter-just like me in fact. Like me absolutely fed up with the Cameroons and the whole state of political leadership.
I was able to compare and contrast with the current conservative incumbent as I stood alongside him at a pub bar on Tuesday this week.
I have made the right choice.
It really is Great to vote for what you want instead of a tiny scrap of what you want.
Been there done that!
The local conservatives here are very worried as is a LibDem councillor candidate friend who has just knocked on the door. He got the bad news that UKIP got my council vote but that he did get one of my (4) parish council votes.
Our local tory MP (Guy) Opperman has had some of his helpers removed from the inised of a voting hall. The same guy on Saturday complained to our local ice-cream man who is a UKIP candidate in my neighbouring ward (his daughter stands in mine). UKIP man has a giant UKIP poster on the back and 2 flags either side and MP man claimed that this was ‘not allowed’. UKIP man reminded him that this was still (just) a free country. I could have added that a poster on a tradesman’s van is no different to one on a house, shop or car window which are ‘allowed’.
Running scared?
sorry not ‘inised’ but ‘inside’
I voted UKIP too, of course. I would have liked the experience of voting for myself but I’m actually standing in the adjacent ward, and managing our local campaign.
We are contesting 9 out of 10 seats in our town in Lancashire, which is not bad considering we only formed our local branch in February.
(Alexsandr, please take note. Join the Party, demand to know when the local branch is being formed and stand as your local candidate!)
The Tories are throwing all their resources into the seats we are fighting actively. I’ve been amused at the hostility they have directed at me, and in turn being directed at them by the voters. And the hopes expressed to me as I’ve gone around the polling stations.
I’ve voted for you has been a constant refrain; though not I noted in the, ethnic wards, where due homage was paid to the local councillor of similar persuasion.
Anyway, I’m back off out to talk to people and persuade any lingering doubters if need be.
Wish me luck in the count tomorrow!
Good luck in the count tomorrow, Noa!
At least you tried, and put yourself about a bit. I voted but had never heard of, had a visit or any leaflets from, any of the candidates. Despite that, I voted UKIP.
I went to place my vote and I was shocked to find there were only three candidate’s two stinking Labour and one unknown independent!! why the hell is there no UKIP candidate in my area of Northeast Durham?. I was left very disappointed at the Polling Station there is no chance whatsoever of getting anyone else but Tory in this depressing place. Please place a candidate in my area soon!!. Good luck for tomorrow UKIP.
EC-thank you for the good wishes. Now it’s all over bar the counting….
I’ll let the Wallsters know how it’s all gone.
Alexandr, Michael-Gentlemen!
I see not two frustrated voters but two two UKIP Party branch founders and activists and candidates in-waiting!
So I humbly suggest you join the Party, demand they put you in contact with like minded people and start preparations for the next by-election and EU campaigns.
A further friendly word of encouragement; our own local branch only started in February, yet with limited resources, we still managed to field 9 candidates in our 10 constituencies and mount an active campaign.
Good luck, Noa!