The Conservatives have won the Newark
by-election, retaining the seat with a majority of more than 7,000.
Candidate Robert Jenrick polled 17,431 votes, beating UKIP's Roger
Helmer, who finished second with 10,028 votes.
Well this result proves what I and many others
suspected, the UKIP surge across in the recent Euro elections was one thing, in
fact Nigel Farage himself described the Euro elections as a free hit, but
winning seats in Westminster is a different animal entirely and UKIP
have a very long way to go before they are, as Farage keeps saying, ‘serious
players’.
It will be interesting to see what UKIP do in the
next year as they have to announce a manifesto and will have to have their
policies on issues other than Europe analysed, after that happens and we can
see the public’s reaction to that then, and only then, can talk start about
where UKIP are and what they can potentially do.
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