Don't vote perhaps, ....it just encourages all of 'em !

Rumours that Labour the Lib dems and the greens have had discussions about an alliance to stop Nutall from winning by leaving the way clear for best placed to defeat him

Och, I've done ok over the years on the betting front. Some you win, some you lose but only bet what you can afford to lose.

Does this mean the people of Stoke will no longer consider voting UKIP?

..because the previous UKIP leader has kept quiet about leaving his wife.

Dear oh dear Meadow, what's going on?

Looking at who is actively canvassing in Stoke I am wondering if the Libdems might cause a shock here but not to their liking.  They are targeting Labour remainers and the LibDems have done reasonably well here in the past (a couple of not bad second places). I personally think the Conservative vote will hold up fairly well here despite their lack of activity. The only party that may gain the most from this canvassing pattern is UKIP, a result none of the other parties wishes for.

Doubt it will surprise anyone, I've backed Labour hoping I do my dough

Backed em twice

Hey Dan that a real bright thing you've done there im sure that bonehead Nutall would be so proud of you

There is no abuse there Billy nothing but the truth there

What motivates you to comment on my posts is it boredom or have you nothing netter to do ?

Ukip ‘too disorganised’ to cash in on Brexit anger in Stoke election
Candidate Paul Nuttall forced to move house over fears for his safety
Paul Nuttall and his predecessor as Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, were pelted with an egg on the Stoke campaign trail.
Paul Nuttall and his predecessor as Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, were pelted with an egg on the Stoke campaign trail. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Sunday 12 February 2017 00.05 GMT Last modified on Sunday 12 February 2017 09.45 GMT
Ukip’s campaign in Stoke-on-Trent Central is insufficiently organised to convert the city’s Brexit majority into support at the ballot box, rivals say.

The claim came as the party’s leader and candidate for next week’s crunch byelection, Paul Nuttall, was forced to move house amid fears for his safety. He has also had to deny allegations that he lied about being present at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

Ukip is the bookmakers’ favourite to take the seat following the resignation of the Labour MP Tristram Hunt. A handful of polls commissioned by Eurosceptic groups have put Nuttall well ahead of the Labour candidate, Gareth Snell.


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Victory in the city, where 70% voted to leave the EU, would lend weight to fears that Labour is on the brink of meltdown in its provincial heartlands. A Labour hold would raise serious doubts over Ukip’s post-Brexit appeal, although Nuttall says the seat is 72nd on the party’s target list.

However, Chris Lovell, the Lib Dems’ campaign manager, said Ukip was likely to underperform expectations. “Ukip aren’t going to win it, I can be definite on that,” he said.

“Ukip talk themselves up but don’t know how to fight elections. Our ground game is miles better than theirs, as is Labour’s. From our data, I’d be relatively confident that Ukip aren’t going to win.”

Turnout for the EU referendum was 65.7%, compared with just 49.9% – the lowest of any seat in the country – in the 2015 general election. Recent polls have consistently shown that Remain voters are more likely to turn out.

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In Stoke on Friday, Nuttall’s campaign manager, Richard Wright, said speculation that the Conservatives had deliberately pulled back to allow Ukip a clear run was misplaced. Although some Tory supporters had pledged to lend Nuttall their votes on 23 February, Wright said the Tories, who finished just 33 votes behind Ukip in 2015, had a “hard core” of local support who were proving difficult to woo.

Merseyside-born Nuttall’s bid to become an MP is already the subject of a police complaint into allegations of electoral fraud, after the house he named as his home address on his nomination papers appeared to be empty at the time. He was plunged into further controversy when he was forced to deny allegations that he had lied about being present at the Hillsborough tragedy, when 96 Liverpool fans died.

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Liverpool’s elected mayor, Joe Anderson, said Nuttall should withdraw if his claims were incorrect. “If it is true that he was at Hillsborough, then it is extremely disappointing that during many years of pain and anguish for the families he never once used his position nationally and internationally to stand up for people from his own community and join the fight for justice,” he said.

“If it’s not true then he needs to withdraw a campaign built on lies. Either way, it’s clear the people of Stoke deserve better than Ukip or Paul Nuttall.”

Ukip issued a statement that said that any claim Nuttall was not at Hillsborough was “totally false and highly defamatory”. The party added: “Paul was indeed at Hillsborough. He attended the match with his father and other family members. For political opponents to suggest otherwise and for leftwing media organisations to promote such claims constitutes a new low for the Labour party and its associates.”

The Lib Dems, who fell from second to fifth at the 2015 general election, believe cardiologist Zulfiqar Ali could make a breakthrough as the only candidate opposed to a hard Brexit in the aftermath of last Wednesday’s divisive parliamentary vote on article 50, pointing to unlikely victories in recent council byelections in Sunderland and Rotherham.

Local activists believe that if Labour wins, they can beat Ukip into third. Campaigners say canvass returns from areas predominantly populated by public sector workers show large numbers of Labour voters lending their support to Ali, a Pakistani immigrant who is banking on the support of the seat’s sizeable Kashmiri population.

Asked whether he was worried by the prospect of a late surge in Lib Dem support in the wake of Labour’s controversial vote in favour of article 50, the party’s candidate Gareth Snell said voters should “think about who you are going to get elected and use your vote wisely”. However, in a blow to lingering hopes of an informal progressive alliance between Labour, the Lib Dems and Greens, both Tim Farron and Caroline Lucas urged local people to back their own candidates and attacked Labour’s stance on Europe.

Labour activists say their support is holding up and Snell played down the significance of the European question. “Of all the things that keep me awake at night, the Liberal Democrats aren’t one of them. This is a race between me, the Tories and Ukip … I think a Paul Nuttall victory would be a disaster for the Potteries.”

What part is fake?

The claim about Hillsborough.

The media trying to paint UKIP in a bad way as usual.

Make up something. Report it as rumour with no sources. Do it enough times and plan is some of it sticks. Trump also faces this kind of nonsense all the time.

Well it can't be denied that Nuttall has a wee bit of history. So far I think he has "allegedly" claimed a doctorate from a Liverpool university, being a professional footballer with Tranmere Rovers, being at Hillsborough, registering an empty house in the Stoke constituency as his home address and wishing to privatise the NHS.
Now he is strutting about Stoke dressed as a country (had to watch my spelling there) gent dressed in tweeds. If some folks think he is a ****, you can see where they are coming from.

media is more trustworthy than nuttall