UKIP gets first Westminster MP

With two by-elections for seats in the Westminster Parliament last night it was a chance see how well UK Independence Party would do against both major parties. Both the Conservatives and Labour were both trying to keep seats against the rise of the nationalist UK Independence Party. The Conservatives lost the seat they once they held and the Labour majority was decimated. Along the way UKIP won there first MP in the Westminster parliament.

Both got the shock of their lives, but listening to the rhetoric of both major party they haven't learnt a thing and the rise of the nationalist will continue. So safe do they feel that they think they have all the answers but they are not connecting with the people and they haven't been listening for years, and people are fed up with the lot of them.

You just had to listen to the Conservative that the BBC found for the by-election special to realise why they lost the seat in Clacton on sea who avoided answering questions by just going on about the economy and how well they have done since they have been in power. He wasn't willing to have a debate with the presenter, he just wanted to force his message across and avoid the issues that saw Douglas Carswell win the first ever seat in the Westminster Parliament. He was a pathetic waste of space and I don't know why the BBC gave him air time.

  
Last night not only did UK Independence Party in Clacton on sea, an area you would expect them to do well, but they almost won a second seat Heywood and Middleton, in the North West of England. It was so close that they even had to have a recount to check if Labour had won the seat or not. UK Independence Party political appeal crosses party lines and as we get closer to the election we will see more and more polices announced that have equally a strong pull on the electorate.

The reason why the UK Independence Party are doing so well is that can be bothered to listen and act on what they are hearing rather than dismissing it as the major parties do in the UK. They then base their polices around public opinion to attach the maximum number votes across all sections of society. They set out to give the people what they want in exchange for power and they are doing it so well that they will be a threat in every seat come the next election.

The Conservative party keep going on about a vote for the UK Independence Party being a vote for labour when in fact it is what it says, just a vote for the UK Independence Party. They hope this will stop the Conservative voters that want to get out of Europe to vote for them in fear of voting a Labour Government in at the next election, but it will all back fired on them if they are not careful. The negative campaigning and the the campaigning of fear is something that almost backfired during the Scottish referendum and it wasn't until the YES campaign, and in particular Gordon Brown, started talking about the positives that fortunes of the YES campaign began to turn round. They have to remember that the majority people in the UK didn't vote for them in the first place.

By refusing to talking talk about the issues that the UK Independence Party are using to attract voters then they deserve what they get in the general election in 2015. It just arrogance to think that people will vote for them and stick your head in the sand like Ed Miliband when he refused to answer questions form the press. Of course a lot of right wing Conservative Members of Parliament that sympathise with UK Independence Party will be blaming Europe for last nights election results, but this shift in voting is more than about the problems with Politics in the UK, they don't see that they are the problem and their attitude to the greater population in the UK.

Last night every main party in the UK politics had a wake up call. All of them got a political kicking from the UK Independence Party, with the collapse of the Conservative and LibDem vote and reduction of the majority in a safe Labour seat. The question is will they press the snooze button hope that the problem goes away. Listening to the World at One on Radio 4, that what they seem to be doing and they plan to continue doing.  

The next round in this fight will be in Rochester and Strood where the reckless Conservative MP, Mark Reckless, will be standing against his old party after defecting to the UK Independence Party during the party conference season. If everything goes the way it seems to be going at the moment soon their will be two members of parliament in Westminster for the UK Independence Party, which the Conservative David Cameron said was full of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists". We it is wake up time and I hope they hear the alarm going off for all our sakes.