{"id":736,"date":"2014-04-25T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=736"},"modified":"2014-04-25T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T06:52:35","slug":"ukip-storms-ahead-in-run-up-to-eu-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"UKIP storms ahead in run-up to EU elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/017501634_40300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-737\" alt=\"John Bickley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/017501634_40300-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/017501634_40300-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/017501634_40300.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>They\u2019ve not got a single seat in the British Parliament, but the UK Independence Party &#8211; or UKIP as they\u2019re known &#8211; are expected to wipe the slate clean at home in May\u2019s European elections. So how did an anti-EU, anti-immigration party become the darlings of the disaffected British voter? Here&#8217;s my report from Manchester for <a href=\"dw.de\">Deutsche Welle Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ab-player\" style=\"background-color: transparent;\" data-boourl=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2103403-ukip-fruitcakes-or-real-threat\/embed\/v2?eid=AQAAAHoFWlNrGCAA\" data-boowidth=\"100%\" data-maxheight=\"150\" data-iframestyle=\"background-color:transparent; display:block; box-shadow:0 0 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15); min-width:349px; max-width:700px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/2103403-ukip-fruitcakes-or-real-threat\">listen to \u2018UKIP, fruitcakes or real threat?\u2019 on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var po = document.createElement(\"script\"); po.type = \"text\/javascript\"; po.async = true; po.src = \"https:\/\/d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net\/cdn\/embed.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They\u2019ve not got a single seat in the British Parliament, but the UK Independence Party &#8211; or UKIP as they\u2019re known &#8211; are expected to wipe the slate clean at home in May\u2019s European elections. So how did an anti-EU, anti-immigration party become the darlings of the disaffected British voter? Here&#8217;s my report from Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}