At the most. I’ve also heard 3 to 7… so I’ve gone for the highest guess. As there might be silent voters that will never admit to voting for them in public but I’d expect much lower.
Plus Farage is a grifter. There is no way he is going to stick around for the long haul. Just look at the collapse of UKIP. These fly by night parties are nothing without a figure head like him. These people tend to be out for themselves more than the party too. That’s why they’ll keep failing.
With their record on immigration (all time high numbers), I just don’t think that option is open to them. I think their best bet is to try as much of the stuff that’ll appeal to older people to secure votes; the triple lock pension etc.
Are people tuning in to tv coverage tonight/all night? I might give the Channel 4 thing a watch up until midnight or so. Shame they’re lumping in Gogglebox with it, however.
going to vote and seeing Liz Truss’ name on the ballot paper makes me so hopeful that she’s going to lose. big reform vote round here so hopefully it splits her demographic. let’s go yellow
Always have a big piss up round my mates to commiserate the usually inevitable tory win but the one time they aren’t going to I’ve got norovirus and will be spending it curled up trying not to shit myself instead
To be fair last time I ended up throwing up all over his downstairs loo which is coincidentally what I was doing from 1am this morning anyway
My old man used to stay up when I was little but he was a Labour Party person. Used to go posting leaflets with him when I was very young. Being surrounded by politics when I was little sort of put me off for the most part.