What Influence Will UKIP Have After The General Election

What influence will UKIP have after the General Election?

For me it’s an interesting question as my new novel, “Too Many Assassins”, covers the rise of UKIP and its enemies from
after the 2015 general election.

I wrote the first draft of the novel in mid 2014 so I had to indulge in a bit of long term speculation – a courageous,
many would say foolish, thing to do at any time. With the coming general election looking too close to call it looks even
tougher.

For what it’s worth I predicted that the distribution of seats would be not greatly different from the 2010 election and
that the most likely outcome was another Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition.
In saying that, I assumed that UKIP would get a decent percentage of the vote, but not necessarily many seats, due to the
problem of the system of First Past The Post voting.To date I haven’t really seen anything to make me change that opinion
so UKIP could have very few seats despite a lot of votes.
I also assumed that The Lib-Dems would hang on to many of their seats, but most of the media at the moment are writing
them off as a spent force. I’m not so sure about that so I guess we wait and see.

Anyway, the point of my speculation was not to make a totally accurate prediction of the result but rather to paint UKIP
as growing force to be reckoned with and thus certain to occupy the thoughts of the traditional political parties. This
sets the tone of the novel which centres around a plot by UKIP’s enemies to destroy the party.

The novel is actually the 2nd book of my trilogy “The Andersen Plan”. For those who would like to read the first book,
“Too Many Victims”, or those of you who are reluctant to buy the work of a new author, I am offering for a limited period
a free download of book 1 on my website http://www.kevinramseyauthor.com

Both books are available now on Amazon as an e-book and in a few weeks time as a paper back.