{"id":17069,"date":"2010-05-08T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/how-did-uk-independence-fare\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T08:09:10","slug":"how-did-uk-independence-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/how-did-uk-independence-fare.php","title":{"rendered":"How did UK Independence fare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S-NWNG8PYbI\/AAAAAAAALPg\/MW5vSSiM4f4\/s1600\/UKIP1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c411_UKIP1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>The pro-free market, pro-sovereignty UK Independence is arguably the most libertarian-leaning party in the United Kingdom, save of course, the tiny UK Libertarian Party.  <\/p><p>Perusing the election results, it appears UKIP polled 3 to 5%.  Here's a sampling from one district - West Sunderland (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2010\/05\/liveblog-uk-election-returns.html\">538 blog<\/a>):<\/p><blockquote><p>Labour 19,615 (53%)<br>Conservatives 8,157 (22%)<br>LibDems 6,382 (17%)<br>BNP 1,913 (3%)<br>UKIP 1,267 (5%)<\/p><\/blockquote><p>It is difficult at this point to discern if they gained any seats in Parliament.  The total Minor Party vote, which includes UKIP, rose by a full 1% over 2005 to 6.5%.  <\/p><p>(H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memeorandum.com\/100506\/p130#a100506p130\">Memeo<\/a>)<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/4c411_7828681836623105417-3444368463628706323?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Eric Dondero:The pro-free market, pro-sovereignty UK Independence is arguably the most libertarian-leaning party in the United Kingdom, save of course, the tiny UK Libertarian Party. Perusing the election results, it appears UKIP polled 3 to 5%. Here's a sampling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/how-did-uk-independence-fare.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}