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Thread #162724   Message #3874952
Posted By: Steve Shaw
03-Sep-17 - 08:01 AM
Thread Name: BS: uk politics
Subject: RE: BS: uk politics
In haste.

A Pollwatch report said that around one in 15 Labour voters may have switched to UKIP in 2015. That's what I mean when I say that left and right aren't exactly poles apart in some respects. It isn't hard to see how a disaffected Labour voter, having been lambasted with fake information that foreigners are swamping the country, etc., would switch to UKIP. I didn't mean that genuine left-wing principles are close to the right, no matter how some people like to paint them that way. It seemed that UKIP gained a lot more from the Tories, in fact.