Miliband and Cameron now want Farage excluded from Leaders Debate after Clegg mauling

[Chippiewill]

There was a discussion about how much air time Farage seems to be getting and how annoyed some people are - but these are people who do not know how to change channel.

Probably confirmation bias. That and the other parties really aren't doing very much in parliament.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Dailymail are being pretty terrible with how they've put this. They're suggesting he demanded it, what he actually said is he doesn't personally think Farage should be there (Since UKIP doesn't have any seats) but he also stated that it wouldn't be his choice anyway.

The Guardian put the same spin on it to be fair. Either way, he's moved from "oh i'm open to Farage taking part" to not thinking he should take part. Very strange considering he's arrived at that decision just a day after the trashing of Clegg.

Can't help but think you constricted yourself there.

Eh?

That graph in no way supports your point, you wouldn't expect labour's percentage to change much anyway since they already have most of the working class vote - whereas UKIP traditionally has had very low working class vote so any increase is going to put that percentage WAY up.

That's why the graph says post-2010 lol.

And it's true Ukip used to be middle class former Tories, but that's changed as this book & article explain.