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Although I’m sure there are a variety of reasons as to why people have voted for UKIP, we shortened it down to three main categories.
Many of the voters that voted for UKIP used their vote in the form of a protest vote. A protest vote is used to show dissatisfaction or disappointment towards either a candidate or party. However “Nigel Farage has always angrily rejected the idea his party relies on a reaction to the existing government to win votes” (BBC , 2014)
Immigration, the main reason against immigration is that people’s opportunity to get a job is becoming less likely and UKIP’s primary immigration policy is to “end the free movement of people in the EU” (BBC 2014A). Although he isn't trying to put an end to immigration, it would be dropped to a smaller net amount compared to the “estimated net flow of 212,000 long-term migrants to the UK in the year ending September 2013”(National Office of Statistics,2014) and only when there is a need for a certain skill, such as a builder, contractor etc. However the amount may have been exaggerated as in January when the UK borders were opened people feared over 4000 immigrants but this total was decreased to 25 people (The Day 2014) so this may show some exaggeration in the statistics collected,
Finally is the fact that people want to leave the EU for a variety of reasons: the EU has too much power over the laws in the UK as “The EU has the authority to apply legislation in the UK”(www.parliament.uk ), unnecessary rules and regulations, and paying for other countries’ economic problems. And if UKIP was to come to power they would force the idea of the UK leaving the EU.

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