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An analysis of data from the UK’s longest-running study of electoral behaviour has revealed how the bulk of UKIP’s support surprisingly comes from professional and managerial middle classes.

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Bob__Sykes

I wonder if Dave's "who's that, Alex Salmond?" comment on This Morning might prove to be as memorable as John Major's "If that's Paddy on the phone, the answer's no" comment from 1992?

(EDIT: A double first - in two consecutive threads. A PB first for me, after about 10 years on here!)

Plato

Let's talk about the Lib Dems... EDIT I came second

Plato

I suspect its older middle class voters, is this news to ANYONE?

Plato

I'm sure all luvvies will agree... telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11555759/Ed-Miliband-My-2.7-million-home-isnt-a-mansion.html

Ed Miliband has claimed his £2.7 million home does not feel like a mansion - but admitted he and his wife could happily afford to pay Labour's proposed £3,000 annual mansion tax.

Mr Miliband said he did not know the exact value of the Kentish Town home he shares with wife Justine Thornton but said he believed it was “somewhere between 2 and 3 [million pounds]".

Experts estimate the home, which has two kitchens, is worth as much as £2.7 million - significantly more than David Cameron and Nick Clegg's London homes, which are valued at £1.97m and £1.89m respectively.

Discussing the mansion tax with Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2, Mr Miliband confirmed: “I am pretty sure I am going to be paying it."

Asked “you don’t feel like you’re in a mansion, do you?” the Labour leader responded: “No, but that’s just a term that’s used.

"It’s a really important point this: this is about a tax system where those with the broadest shoulders bear the greatest burden.”