UKIP are lining up just the greatest list of candidates aren't they?

If you needed a reminder it's <current year> their second choice for the South West is Carl Benjamin, aka. Sargon Of Akkad on Youtube, and my eternal enemy for disgracing the name of the 4th millennium BC's coolest world conqueror. A """liberal""" (right-winger using the 'classical liberal' moniker to gain wide appeal) who hates political correctness, wants to make Britain great again and once sent an 'I wouldn't even rape you' comment to a Labour MP.

Mark Meecham (aka. Count Dankula of the Nazi dog free speech controversy) has also joined the party and is angling to be an MEP.

So *sigh* potential for right-wing memes to give UKIP a boost.

Nah. The provisional Lib Dem list for the same area contains two former MPs, school governors, environmental scientists, people with experience in international organisations. I was impressed. People that looked like the sort of people we would send to be MEPs for the full allotted time, not those who've gotten internet famous from being intentionally abrasive and with skeletons spilling out of their closets. UKIP is scraping.

You think the Lib Dems will do better than Change UK then, even though Change UK have the benefit of being shiny and new?

UKIP are lining up just the greatest list of candidates aren't they?

If you needed a reminder it's <current year> their second choice for the South West is Carl Benjamin, aka. Sargon Of Akkad on Youtube, and my eternal enemy for disgracing the name of the 4th millennium BC's coolest world conqueror. A """liberal""" (right-winger using the 'classical liberal' moniker to gain wide appeal) who hates political correctness, wants to make Britain great again and once sent an 'I wouldn't even rape you' comment to a Labour MP.

Mark Meecham (aka. Count Dankula of the Nazi dog free speech controversy) has also joined the party and is angling to be an MEP.

So *sigh* potential for right-wing memes to give UKIP a boost.

Almost certainly I'd say, though I am a tad biased. LDs already have an infrastructure and an identity, and they've been the biggest pro-Europe party ever since the referendum. For those who it's an issue, they also oppose federalism in Europe, and are a bit less likely to be soulless neoliberals. CUK could gain centrist ground but I'm not seeing a world where they manage to place themselves as THE remain party.

Being the most established pro-Remain party I think will put them at least 4th overall if not better. Where they've often been held back in elections is their fragmented spread of voters that works against them with FPTP. They were 5th last time but that was at their lowest ebb of popularity, I think they'll get some more this time.

Biggest party by Members or MPs? Because they're second on both counts to the SNP and the SNP don't even stand outside of Scotland.

UKIP will do nothing in the elections, they're basically a re-branded BNP now. Sure they'll pick up some of the votes, but they're basically a Fascist party now.

If Farage hadn't founded the Brexit party then I could see things being different. Plus the Brexit party gives Farage (who was UKIP) a platform to blame everyone for not seeing through Brexit rah, rah, rah. It's just a pure populist party which is dangerous, as populist parties are but I can see why a Brexiteer would vote for them. If any Brexiteer votes for the UKIP party, well, they need their head knocking on!

That depends -

1. They might not realise that UKIP have changed.

2. They might be so pissed off at the fiasco over BRexit, that they'll vote for them despite the change.

Sounds like you're saying UKIP voters are too stupid to notice the changes or so extreme that they'll vote for them in spite of the move to the nutty far-right. That doesn;t sound very complimentary either way