Tories Sink to FIFTH PLACE in EU Election Polls, Farage’s Brexit Party Dominates

Conservatives pushed into fifth place in our latest European Parliament voting intention survey (fieldwork 8-9 May)
Brexit Party – 34%
Lab – 16%
Lib Dem – 15%
Green – 11%
Con – 10%
Change UK – 5%
UKIP – 3%https://t.co/W4o6NfLQkL pic.twitter.com/aQ1swhpFRE

— YouGov (@YouGov) May 13, 2019

The failure of the CUK party to break through bodes extremely poorly for the electoral prospects of the “Remain Resistance” led by the likes of Tony Blair, given it was supposed to serve as a Remainer answer to the Brexit Party.

The party had some significant advantages over Farage’s party, which has put candidates outside the world of politics, including entrepreneurs, members of the fishing community, and decorated war veterans, front and centre, while CUK enjoyed a parliamentary base of former Labour and Tory MPs with relatively high profiles and good media contacts from the get-go.

The better known Liberal Democrats, who are also campaigning on an anti-Brexit platform — with the somewhat contentious assistance of EU politicians like Guy Verhofstadt — are faring somewhat better, but have not garnered even half the public support mustered by Mr Farage, sitting at 15 per cent.

Democratic Revolution: Farage's Brexit Party Pulls Ahead of Tories in General Election Poll https://t.co/p9E0MgNCVk

— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 11, 2019

Perhaps even more troubling, polling for general election voting intentions shows the many people appear to plan on backing Mr Farage at in national as well as European elections — with the Brexit Party currently outpointing the Conservatives in a ComRes poll.

If translated into action at the ballot box, the poll results would see the Brexit Party claim some 49 seats in the House of Commons — and Remainer party chairman Brandon Lewis ousted from his seat, along with other Tory heavyweights including serving members of the Cabinet and even leadership hopeful Boris Johnson, a leading but so far ineffectual Brexiteer.

The BBC are in denial. Looks like our entire establishment are in for a bigger surprise on May 23rd than they could ever imagine. pic.twitter.com/6W0NgqRGIC

— Nigel Farage (@Nigel_Farage) May 12, 2019

Story cited here.