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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Monday, September 20, 2004 

LibDems and UKIP

The following is taken from a comment in The Scotsman bythat paper's political editor Fraser Nelson over the weekend, linked from here.

At any rate, Mr Kennedy has enviable by-election victories to point to in Leicester South and Brent East. While political purists may quibble over the definition of Left and Right, he can say his party is marching on, galvanised by its fresh thinking.

Their task is made all the easier because the Tory vote is being devoured by the UK Independence Party, which has branched out from anti-Europeanism (the Liberal Democrats would join the euro) and into concerns about law-and-order.

While Mr Kennedy says he "would certainly not raise a glass to the UK Independence Party" the adopted party of Robert Kilroy-Silk, the former BBC chat show host, has started to harness the popular right-wing vote and is weakening its main enemy.

"If you look at the opinion poll in Hartlepool by-election, the Tory vote has already halved at the expense of UKIP," he said. "They are the people with the problem at that end of the political spectrum, not us."

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