BillyHunt:
Given the amount of seats they won as opposed to how many ukip got I would say his tactics worked a treat. The labour/ snp vote was never going to affect ukip, they had as much chance of winning in Scotland as the Tories did,which was very little. No I’m afraid the reason they did poorly is down to bad management. Nothing to do with nationalism, federalism or any other ism, people aren’t interested in all that, they’re more interested in having a job, making some money, having a decent lifestyle. None of which was talked about by ukip & there single issue, a big mistake costing them seats, as you well know. They were so poor if I were you I’d ask for a refund on my membership, you are a member aren’t you?
An indication of how much the EU means to people here is, despite all the negative stories put out, all the information on immigration, legal or otherwise, the fact that the Tories said they wanted to stay in, ukip still couldn’t manage to get more seats. What does that tell you about how the referendum will go? Bang on about almost 4 million votes all you like, and how the system will be different next time, the main parties, all pro EU, got nearer 26 million.
Firstly no I’m not a UKIP member but definitely a loyal voter at least until/unless the Cons or Labour make some serious changes regards the ( important ) issue of ideology and immigration policy.While ‘if’ I chose to be an actual member of any of them that would depend on all of my views being met on everything from anti federalism/nationalism to anti free markets economic policy as part of that.
On that note,as I’ve said,it would arguably be a new reinvented Nationalist Labour Party which would meet all of those conditions than even UKIP.Which is where Shore was trying to take Labour before being rumbled and stopped by the Socialists/Federalists like Wilson and Callaghan.

As for the combined vote of Lab/Con/SNP that doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing as a pro EU vote.While the Cameron Lab/SNP scare tactic was actually all about Cameron trying to create a tactical voting environment which stopped any Con to UKIP swing and which obviously worked. 
Nor for that matter does it necessarily mean anything at all in an environment where,as we’ve seen and you’ve said yourself,the electorate is as uneducated as to not even be able to understand the difference between nationalism v federalism or the actual implications of supporting the latter v the former.Which arguably applies to both the Cons and Labour but definitely in the case of the SNP.
On that note UKIP’s 4 million vote is arguably just the tip of the iceberg in the case of the,‘actual’,let alone potential,anti Federalist/EU vote.While hopefully UKIP ( and Labour ) will move towards an increasingly nationalist agenda which builds on UKIP’s obviously already,admittedly limited,anti free labour markets stance regards immigration policy.IE UKIP has at least shown that it is open minded,regarding the idea of protectionism,as opposed to race to the bottom free markets.
In which case we’re actually discussing the failings of an uneducated electorate combined with an unrepresentative electoral system which over states the credibility of the Socialist/cheap labour/Federalist Lab/Con/SNP alliance.When the country is crying out for a Nationalist alliance of a re born Labour and UKIP that looks after the interests of the indigenous working class.
As opposed to the status quo of the same old Federalist pro immigration agenda,with its over supplied labour market and excessive demands for housing and social provision,which you obviously support and which certainly isn’t in the interests of that working class vote. 