British Democracy Forum - View Single Post - £20.23 spent for every vote UKIP got in Henley bye-election

Raymond Finch · 07-08-2008, 11:57 AM

So what price would you put on freedom?

Any party should put whatever funds it can raise to gain voter awareness. The fact that we got a lower share than we wanted was down to the fact that lots of voters supported the Tories in order to give Labour (Gordon Brown) a kicking combined with the fact that Labour voters, knowing they had no chance, felt they could, with impunity, lend their votes to the Greens and the BNP (depending on their preference) with the added bonus of telling Labour what they thought of deserting their core voters.

Essentially UKIP got electorally squeezed while our ideological opponents were given a free run. This happens. It was in no way a comment on our campaigning or our (excellent) candidate who, if he had stood in the Euro elections would have been near the top of my list.

07-08-2008, 11:57 AM	#6 (permalink)
Raymond Finch Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 515	So what price would you put on freedom? Any party should put whatever funds it can raise to gain voter awareness. The fact that we got a lower share than we wanted was down to the fact that lots of voters supported the Tories in order to give Labour (Gordon Brown) a kicking combined with the fact that Labour voters, knowing they had no chance, felt they could, with impunity, lend their votes to the Greens and the BNP (depending on their preference) with the added bonus of telling Labour what they thought of deserting their core voters. Essentially UKIP got electorally squeezed while our ideological opponents were given a free run. This happens. It was in no way a comment on our campaigning or our (excellent) candidate who, if he had stood in the Euro elections would have been near the top of my list.