The United Kingdom Independence Party, a coalition of eurosceptic Britons, had a landslide victory in the United Kingdom in the elections to the European Parliament, topping the polls in terms of number of seats. Amid claims of fascism by the traditional left-right cartel of parties, Twitter users sprung to the defence of the emerging anti-EU force.
UKIP IF YOU WANT TO: Media-savvy Nigel Farage’s eurosceptic party has a landslide victory in the European Parliament elections in 2014. Courtesy: Wikipedia.
The overwhelming opinion of Twitter users was that the claims by the socialist and capitalist political party establishment was unfounded. “I don’t really agree with much UKIP bang on about, but someone clear up to me how they’re racist and fascist exactly?,” asked University of Birmingham student, Carl Raynsford (@CarlR_). “Proud to be from the North West. Labour topped the poll despite the UKIP surge, and the fascist lost his seat. Not so grim up north today,” said Cambridge student, George Morris (@George_B_Morris), referring conversely to the failure of the leader of the British National Party leader Nick Griffin to gain re-election. Writer an actor, Gary Dobbs (@garymartindobbs) added, “Now can people stop calling UKIP fascist and realize it is the E U that is fascist #UKIP“.
UKIP’s first place saw it take 27 per cent of the popular vote, the right-wing cartel party, the Conservatives Party, on 24 per cent, the left-wing cartel party Labour got about 25 per cent, seeing the Green Party beating the UK Government coalition partners, the Liberal Democratic Party, by 7.87 per cent of the vote compared to 6.87 per cent. In Wales the distribution of parities elected stayed the same with Kay Swinburne for the Conservative Party, Derek Vaughan for the Labour Party and Jill Evans for Plaid Cymru, all being re-elected. UKIP retained its seat in Wales, with newly elected Nathan Gill, increasing its share of the vote by 14.76 per cent to 201,983, which is only 4,350 votes short of beating the Wales Labour Party into first position.
