A ComRes poll for Open Europe puts UKIP on 27% for the EU elections with Labour in second place on 23% and the Tories on 21%. The Lib Dems are a distant fourth with just 9%.
The same poll predicts 37% for Labour, 26% for the Tories and UKIP on 20% in a general election. The Lib Dems are once again a distant fourth on 9%.
The poll also found that while 41% of people would vote to leave the EU with 37% voting to stay in, that would change to 47% voting to stay in and 32% voting to leave if significant powers could be repatriated from the EU. Human nature will always favour the soft option, the compromise. But as it's not possible to take power off the EU once you've given it to them without leaving the mythical "third way" isn't going to be an option.
Open Europe has tried to spin the poll as massive support for the EU as you would expect from a pro-EU think tank that campaigns for reform but really it's not. Most people want to leave the EU and most would take the easy way out if it was possible which it's not. Open Europe can spin it all they like but this isn't a positive poll for the europhiles.
wonkotsane is an author at Bloggers4UKIP.
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