Cal wrote:UKIP got almost 4 million votes; their share of the votes quite literally skyrocketed. Remind me again, how did Labour do..?
They got over nine million votes and 231 more seats
Cal wrote:The kind of mindset that lazily considers UKIP voters 'ignorant' is the kind of mindset that loses elections.
If I were you, I wouldn't analyse my posts as somehow symptomatic of a general anti-Tory sentiment that has cost Labour ground in this election, because I am not a Labour campaign organiser; nor am I an outspoken Conservative critic, although you seem to have disregarded the fact that it was they who won this election, not UKIP.
And my mindset is far from lazy - in fact, as I recall, I gave plenty of valid reasons for considering the political party that is UKIP to be racist in another thread on this very forum, and three times you simply dismissed it as "my opinion" without a single valid counterpoint. Which is far closer to laziness than any posting behaviour I have exhibited. Just because you're comfortable with your own wilful delusions doesn't mean they don't deserve to be challenged. UKIP are a racist party, trading off the incorrect notions that immigration is bad and our continued membership of EU is bad; notions gladly perpetuated by a cynical gutter press keen to sell papers.
Fatal Exception wrote:Eighthours wrote:Dan. wrote:That hasn't happened, which suggests UKIP will be around to poison the mindset of the ignorant for a while yet.
Why are UKIP supporters automatically 'ignorant'? Isn't this one of the symptoms of left wing thinking that was partly responsible for Labour losing the election?
Because they support a party which uses xenophobia to attract votes, often completely ignoring facts to justify their own prejudices. They are the very definition of ignorance.
Boom. FE has nailed it while I was compiling my own post. Carry on.