Options

One in four voters would fall out with their friend if they discovered they were UKIP

245

Comments

  • Options
    bluebladeblueblade Posts: 88,859
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Aneechik wrote: »
    One in four is one quarter, so what you're saying is that three quarters wouldn't. Or to put it another way - a vast, overwhelming majority.

    I couldn't give a toss who my friends vote for.

    Nor me. I don't even ask them. Not interested.

    Mind, I read some crap on here once, where somebody said they would ditch their partner if they found they read the Daily Mail. Weird or what ?

    I don't believe the 1 in 4 stats for one second. Sounds like made up rubbish.
  • Options
    bluebladeblueblade Posts: 88,859
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Shouldn't really be much of a problem; I can't envisage your average UKIP supporter having many friends.

    Unless they live in Clacton or Rochester, of course :kitty:

    Or that other place up North where they came a close 2nd behind Labour.
  • Options
    MARTYM8MARTYM8 Posts: 44,710
    Forum Member
    LostFool wrote: »
    The so-called liberal left have always been the least tolerant of those who don't share their views.

    Maybe they should try and find some UKIP friends, buy them a subscription to the Guardian and try to change their minds.:D Closed minds are never the best minds - if you only hang out with fellow Guardianistas you will never learn how the lower orders live.

    There are at least 4.5 million potential UKIP friends for them to try based on the European elections.

    Most Labour voters are lovely people - it's just the ones of the superior Camden and Islington mindset that tend to bring things down.
  • Options
    RobMilesRobMiles Posts: 1,224
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    If that's what friendship and loyalty mean to the left, then I'd rather not bother with them.
  • Options
    TeeGeeTeeGee Posts: 5,772
    Forum Member
    Some would happily vote for a party with a record of destroying both society and the economy as long as they attempt to take the "rich" down with them.

    Fortunately I don't have any friends who vote Labour. ;-)
  • Options
    allaortaallaorta Posts: 19,050
    Forum Member
    ✭✭
    Jol44 wrote: »
    A quarter of Britons would fall out with their friends if they discovered they were Ukip supporters, a poll has revealed.

    Despite a surge in support Ukip remains by the far the most toxic of the all the main political parties.

    Three times as many people said they would ‘find it harder to stay close with a good friend’ if they voted Ukip than if they supported the Tories.

    Labour is the least ‘toxic’ of all the main Westminster parties

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2847282/Toxic-Nigel-One-four-voters-fall-friends-discovered-Ukip-supporters.html#ixzz3K0UPJrpY


    Shocking.

    I once had a friend who was a Tory, that was a long time ago though. I was young and naive.

    The real reason for your OP is that little sentence about who is the least toxic party in Westminster. Well of course that's not true in Scottish politics is it, as you will find out next May, by which time you will be old and naive.
  • Options
    LostFoolLostFool Posts: 90,710
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    MARTYM8 wrote: »
    Most Labour voters are lovely people - it's just the ones of the superior Camden and Islington mindset that tend to bring things down.

    One of my best drinking buddies is a life long Labour voter and Guardian reader (from Manchester not Islington). We enjoy challenging each others opinions over a few beers as it is boring to just mix with people who you agree with. However, one of the few things we do agree on politically is that Ed Miliband is a waste of space.
  • Options
    MidnightFalconMidnightFalcon Posts: 15,016
    Forum Member
    ✭✭
    Reading this thread it seems that some Labour supporters have a lot in common with scientologists

    Which explains a lot.
  • Options
    Camp FreddieCamp Freddie Posts: 1,534
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Oh dear ! Another pathetically feeble anti UKIP thread from the Labour party faithful. Expect more of the same from the usual suspects in the run up to the General Election.
  • Options
    deptfordbakerdeptfordbaker Posts: 22,368
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    I've fallen out with friends for repeatedly posting Britain First links on facebook, despite knowing they are a far right racist organisation. Once or twice is a mistake and I have no problem with it. I don't think I know anyone who is UKIP, so I can't fall out with them. I did live with a Conservative voting girl for 3 years though, so I'm not that prejudiced.

    Is it coz I is right.

    Don't tell me, your not prejudiced as some of your best friends are Tory's. :D
  • Options
    Jol44Jol44 Posts: 21,048
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    LostFool wrote: »
    The so-called liberal left have always been the least tolerant of those who don't share their views.

    Say the tolerant guy who's so tolerant he can't tolerate members of the general public not liking the views of the party he supports so he has to put them in a box, stick a label on them and call them intolerant.
  • Options
    smudges dadsmudges dad Posts: 36,989
    Forum Member
    Is it coz I is right.

    Don't tell me, your not prejudiced as some of your best friends are Tory's. :D
    :D The only people I won't put up with are racists and bigots (and people who mix up your and you're:p). Tories are fine and I honestly don't think I know any UKIP supporters.
  • Options
    Jol44Jol44 Posts: 21,048
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    LostFool wrote: »
    The so-called liberal left have always been the least tolerant of those who don't share their views.

    Section 28
  • Options
    Jol44Jol44 Posts: 21,048
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Tories are fine and I honestly don't think I know any UKIP supporters.

    I don't know any UKIP either.

    Personally I would cast a very questioning eye over anyone who voted Tory.
  • Options
    BrokenArrowBrokenArrow Posts: 21,665
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    They are probably over emphatic weak people, so no loss really.
  • Options
    deptfordbakerdeptfordbaker Posts: 22,368
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    :D The only people I won't put up with are racists and bigots (and people who mix up your and you're:p). Tories are fine and I honestly don't think I know any UKIP supporters.

    I seem to have a problem with there, their and they're as well. My left wing, ILEA, comprehensive, socialist, education has a lot to answer for. :(

    If only Michael Gove had been in charge when I was at school. :)
  • Options
    TelevisionUserTelevisionUser Posts: 41,461
    Forum Member
    Aneechik wrote: »
    One in four is one quarter, so what you're saying is that three quarters wouldn't. Or to put it another way - a vast, overwhelming majority.

    Exactly, Aneechik and so this is a bit of a non story to say the least.
    Aneechik wrote: »
    I couldn't give a toss who my friends vote for.

    ^^^ This +1.
  • Options
    Regis MagnaeRegis Magnae Posts: 6,810
    Forum Member
    Maxatoria wrote: »
    i always thought it was politics, religion and taste in women (or men these days as the quote was from when it was illegal)

    I'd be tempted to add money to that list too.
  • Options
    Jol44Jol44 Posts: 21,048
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Aneechik wrote: »
    One in four is one quarter, so what you're saying is that three quarters wouldn't. Or to put it another way - a vast, overwhelming majority.

    I couldn't give a toss who my friends vote for.


    I suspect you would if that party had a direct negative effect in the past on you/your friends/family and were going to do so again in the future.

    I can very much see why some folk wouldn't care, but one also has to understand why others would.

    Certain sections of society at the sharp end (often the poorest) have had a real horrific deal under certain parties.
  • Options
    MajlisMajlis Posts: 31,362
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Jol44 wrote: »
    I suspect you would if that party had a direct negative effect in the past on you/your friends/family and were going to do so again in the future.

    I can very much see why some folk wouldn't care, but one also has to understand why others would.

    Certain sections of society at the sharp end (often the poorest) have had a real horrific deal under certain parties.

    Thats daft - everyone is negatively affected in some way by every Government - if you ditched all your friends who supported those governments you would have a very lonely life.
  • Options
    BanglaRoadBanglaRoad Posts: 57,792
    Forum Member
    :D The only people I won't put up with are racists and bigots (and people who mix up your and you're:p). Tories are fine and I honestly don't think I know any UKIP supporters.

    What? Do you not know that Corpach is crawling with Kipsters and they meet every Friday in the Railway Club? Nah seriously I don't know anybody who would even contemplate voting UKIP. Good for a laugh but nobody takes them seriously. Slightly different when I am in England. There are a few gin sodden old buffers in Windsor who love UKIP but they also talk about horse whipping shoplifters and banning daytime TV!
  • Options
    plateletplatelet Posts: 26,438
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    Jol44 wrote: »
    Say the tolerant guy who's so tolerant he can't tolerate members of the general public not liking the views of the party he supports so he has to put them in a box, stick a label on them and call them intolerant.

    Are you saying there are people on this forum who don't do that?
  • Options
    MARTYM8MARTYM8 Posts: 44,710
    Forum Member
    BanglaRoad wrote: »
    [/B]What? Do you not know that Corpach is crawling with Kipsters and they meet every Friday in the Railway Club? Nah seriously I don't know anybody who would even contemplate voting UKIP. Good for a laugh but nobody takes them seriously. Slightly different when I am in England. There are a few gin sodden old buffers in Windsor who love UKIP but they also talk about horse whipping shoplifters and banning daytime TV!

    Perhaps you need to expand your social circles beyond the sneering brigade. Your post just oozes smugness and a sense of your apparent superiority.

    Off to an Upper Street wine bar for champers with Emily Thornberry are we tomorrow night?:D
  • Options
    MajlisMajlis Posts: 31,362
    Forum Member
    ✭✭✭
    MARTYM8 wrote: »
    Perhaps you need to expand your social circles beyond the sneering brigade. Your post just oozes smugness and a sense of your apparent superiority.

    You sem to get that a lot on this forum, people who seem to have absolutely no contact at all with people whose views are different - its as though some actively seek out only acquintances who agree with them.

    bizarre.:o
  • Options
    BanglaRoadBanglaRoad Posts: 57,792
    Forum Member
    MARTYM8 wrote: »
    Perhaps you need to expand your social circles beyond the sneering brigade. Your post just oozes smugness and a sense of your apparent superiority.

    Off to an Upper Street wine bar for champers with Emily Thornberry are we tomorrow night?:D

    What are you on about now? The old guys I described are EXACTLY like that but if you cannot accept that there are people like that who support UKIP then that is not my problem and is no reason to accuse me of smugness or superiority. Is having a thin skin and paranoia compulsory for Kipsters now?
Sign In or Register to comment.