UKIP leader

I was spot on!

I was simply hoping for more virtual money back on my bet, the odds weren't as good for Labour winning.

www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/02/24/stoke-by-election-ukip-are-finished-it-s-time-to-put-them-to

Well I am sticking with my view that Stoke Central voters had a choice of 2 poor candidates in Snell and Nuttall.

Gareth Snell's tweeting history would be deemed as offensive , sexist and crude had he not been a Labour candidate it seems, very odd.

Labour were always going to win Stoke Central in my opinion but boy was Snell lucky the focus remained on Nuttall.

That wasn't lucky, that was Nuttall being an idiot.
Who says people didn't see Snell's tweeting history as sexist, crude and offensive? How do you know that's not why two thousand previous Labour voters did not vote for him?

I wonder if Nuttall will apply for the Leicester manager's job.

At a risk of being utterly trivial, what kind of numbskull tries to fashion himself as a working class hero and then dresses up as a stereotypical country squire to campaign. UKIP has always been a one trick pony (one well funded by Arron Banks). Their coverage by the press was always completely out of proportion to the number of members (and MPs) They have not been able to attract good candidates.
Hoping that you-know-who does not make another comeback.

He was lucky alright.

It is a generalised point I was making. It just goes to show what the electorate will choose to 'ignore', decide to 'let pass' when it comes to candidates and politics doesn't it.

If the character of the candidates were an issue to voters neither Snell nor Nuttall would have survived , let alone come 1st and 2nd.

"The Potteries decided there was no need to have UKIP’s official leader in parliament when UKIP’s unofficial leader is already in Number 10, pursuing a hard Brexit."

"We would have done even better but for many voters, drawn to the Lib Dems, who felt they just couldn’t risk being represented by a UKIP MP, so reluctantly backed Labour. Paul Nuttall called this seat Brexit Central but it turned out to be the end of the line for UKIP."

LibDem response.

That sounds like sour grapes to me

Honestly dj, even for you the jibe at Mrs May is really pathetic!!!

POGS I suspect most if not all the people who voted Labour in Stoke will have seen Snell's comments as sexist etc.
Your comment about what the voters will let pass when it comes to candidates and politics applies to the new POTUS

What are you on about, niggly?

Ukips unofficial leader in No 10 etc should give you a clue!

Political parties always have a 'good excuse' for why they did badly instead of saying that nobody much wanted to vote for them.

Well done, niggly. That was the Libdem spokesman that said that. Did you not notice the quotation marks?

Repeated with gusto by you dj, no surprise there! Why are you always so intolerant to anyone who holds different opinions to you?! Always belittling, always so critical! At times it's deeply unpleasant.

Wow wow wow niggly - did you post that without blushing?

Excellent post Niggly, excellent post.

Why are you so intolerant of people who hold different opinions to you, niggly?
Always belittling, always so critical! At times it's deeply unpleasant.

dj x 100

Back in the playground again......sigh!

Oh dear dj, surely you can do better than that?!!

Well you certainly can't nn and some of you never leave the playground btw

All this belittling of Mrs May is particularly ironic when it's perfectly clear that there isn't one other person apart from perhaps Phillip Hammond, in the whole of the House of Commons who could even begin to negotiate our way out of the EU, never mind come to any conclusion, successful or otherwise!
No, I don't support UKIP as has been suggested! I think this post makes that perfectly clear!!