Ukip vs Tories vs Labour — how alike are the voters?

How similar are Ukip and Tory voters? Although the party hierarchies are keen to distance themselves from each other, there’s plenty of overlap in the opinions of their supporters. Firstly, both groups are enthusiastic about heading to the polls this Thursday. A few weeks ago, Ukip was slightly ahead of the other parties in the likeliness to vote ratings. Now the polling says they’re far more likely to vote than the Tories. According to the latest poll, almost three quarters of ‘kippers say they will definitely vote on Thursday compared to a little over half for the Tories:

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The Tories and Ukippers have similar views on Faragiste warnings about Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants coming to the UK: they believe them. Although the prophecies of doom appear to have been false (according to the Office of National Statistics, who said that there were fewer Romanians and Bulgarians in work after transitional controls were lifted), more than a third of the public thinks that the warnings were right, and the official statistics are inaccurate.