UK MPs - 2015 Parliament

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Sends her kids to private schools but also criticizes them at the same time. Damaging and controversial figure within the party.

The classic labour mistake. Almost as traditional as when family values Tories are found with rent boys.

Needless to say, a strange person.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Remember all those times last parliament when the media pushed Afriyie to run for PM, and promised that he would lead the much anticipated TorYBackbenchRebellion? Good times. I always wondered what the source of all that silliness was.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Notorious for spending more time in his dentist practise than parliament (and the dentist practise was under suspicion in the expenses scandal)

Dentist + politician ? Must get off on unpopularity.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Probably one of the biggest idiots to serve in the Shadow Cabinet.

Burrowes is an odd guy.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Carswell is more of an academic-minded almost nebbish Eurosceptic than the sort of boorish type the party likes to present itself as.

 I suppose the divide in UKIP is those who consider the EU their primary issue and those who consider immigration to be the biggest issue (the latter being the key part of the party's growth, and yet, perhaps also its millstone).

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Well, I can't say I'm too involved in the internal machinations of the party so I can't be sure, but I think it's fair to say that the anti-immigration base dwarfs the anti-European elderly rural colonel section across the country.

Also I would be wary of using the North/south barrier too much. I think a lot of UKiP's supposed northern strength was a bit of a dud - they have no strength in the powerhouses of Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds and only a little in the outskirts of Sheffield. I think a lot of UKIP gains didn't really materialise even in relatively white working class areas like Hull.

They have success in locales around the country where the economy is depressed, mostly white with some "problematic" migrants like travellers and East European workers that don't vote - depressed seaside towns and old industrial towns being the most important examples. These include Thurrock, Clacton, Thanet, areas of Plymouth etc. there really are no natural constituencies where "genteel" elderly colonel Eurosceptics dominate. Maybe they have some rural strength in the sprawling shire constituencies, but support is too thin and Tories too entrenched.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

His son is also notorious for writing a Spectator article straight out of Der Sturmer (it was about Jews in Hollywood or something.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Best MP

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I'm still surprised Nad the Mad wasn't deselected. Probably they wanted to avoid some attention whoring indy campaign.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Flick Drummond ran into "the Sc**nthorpe conundrum" in the campaign:

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/01/flick-drummond/

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Remember when Duncan was going to be the next big thing? He tried going for the HIGNFY lovable rouge method, but it backfired hilariously when he went on during the expenses scandal:

You must be logged in to read this quote.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

Lisa Cameron (SNP - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow)

In a bit of a kerfluffle, apparently she's a slumlord.