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UKIP, they pick: the meaning of a conservative party's recent strong showing.(United Kingdom Independence Party)
PRIME MINISTER Tony Blair, Tory politicians, and political pundits were all "reeling," as the tabloids say, from the British results of the European elections and, in particular, from the almost vertical rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party. UKIP had won only 1.5 percent of the national vote in the 2001 general election. Even under the proportional representation used in the European elections, small parties usually poll in the low single digits. And UKIP had been caricatured by its opponents as a kind of Ealing-comedy political party--all squires, vicars, tarts, and assorted eccentrics fighting the election as a jolly good lark.
As it happened, the joke ...
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