'Electoral record' = performance in past elections.

They won the Euro elections in 2014 with 27% of the vote. The Greens came 4th with 7%.

In the local elections in 2014 UKIP gained 161 seats. The Greens gained 18.

UKIP have put their policies on the agenda. Britain's EU membership is on the ballot paper at this election. Immigration is the number one issue in the polls.

All the lefty stuff – nationalisation of industry, higher income tax, a 'citizens' income' - are not even close to mainstream issues. (And where are the ecological policies by the way? Not on the ballot, that’s where.)

The projected number of seats says more about the system than the party. That said, UKIP will be a bigger factor in splitting Labour or Tory votes than all of the lefty parties put together.

Scottish nationalists have built a credible party. The anti-EU right has too. Even the Taffs manage a reasonable showing. Where’s the credibly lefty alternative?

The Greens are the closest you have, and they’ve fluffed it by electing a leader who is an elecrtoral liability.

For the record, I’m not voting UKIP. I think the immigration stuff will be their downfall. Aside from Farage (who I respect) I think they’re a bit populist and lacking in substance. But by any measure you like, they’re way ahead of any lefty versions you care to mention.

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I wasn't using it for that purpose Seth but as a retort to the ridiculous statement that you don't see or meet crazy Muslims FFS

History should never be sanitized for the convenience of the current age. The word has a place in society, and like any word, it is the context of its use that is significant, because it determines the meaning projected by its use. There is a big difference between hip hop stars using the term in reference to his friends and a white supremacist and only an idiot would believe that word, in both contexts, is the same.

Words are defined by their context of use.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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You don't in general, because they're a minority within a minority, probably just about on a par with crazy white folks with strange ideas that lead to them killing people.

Sad fact of society, they're are always going to be 'crazy' f**ktards who think violence is its own solution.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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You keep believing that whilst the news shows us pictures of beheadings of hostages on a fairly regular basis now.

See, the difference here, is that I prefer to judge people primarily either on the actions of the majority, who aren't murdering people, and on the individual experience of having known quite a few muslims now who all seem to be equally horrified by such actions.

The fact that most of those being murdered by groups like IS, Al-Queda and their affiliates are Muslims themselves seems to be lost on people, who just see it as an excuse to denigrate whole swarths of a population. In fact most of those who have actually been engaged against Islamist terror are other Muslims (Kurds for example are about 80% Muslim).

By comparison, the number of westerners killed by IS and their ilk is insignificant compared to the number of other Muslims who have been killed.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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