Lib Dems hold on to Eastleigh

The Liberal Democrats have won the Eastleigh by-election, with the UK Independence Party pushing the Conservatives into third place.

Leader Nick Clegg said the party’s candidate Mike Thornton had pulled off a “stunning victory” which had been secured “against the odds”.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said it’s best-ever performance in a Westminster poll showed it had “connected with voters”.

David Cameron said the Tories would recover from a “disappointing” result.

I think Clegg should tone down the victory celebrations as this was a seat already under Lib Dem control, and let’s not forget that this by-election was held because Chris Huhne had to resign for lying about driving offences, so Lib Dems you don’t have that much to shout about.

While UKIP have clearly performed very well and gained 24.2% of the vote, and pushed the Tories into second, they didn’t win and even if they did it would have brought their number of seats to a grand total of 1.

So can everybody calm down about UKIP becoming this major political force because at the moment their just not.

Finally I think that candidates who run for parties like, Monster Raving Loony or Elvis Loves Pets (not making that one up) should really stop, they were a funny novelty for a while, but that novelty has worn off.

Nine of the 13 candidates who represented the non-mainstream parties between them polled a whopping 4.94% of the vote, I reiterate it’s not funny anymore and their just wasting everybody’s time, including their own.