UKIP lose deposit in Rugby election

Sixth formers at Rugby High School for Girls held a mock election today (10 March 2015) and UKIP lost their deposit.

The result was:

Labour 38%

Tories 24%

Lib Dems 22%

Greens 14%

UKIP 2%

Students at the school were concerned about their prospects if Britain were to leave the European Union.

The issue of the Tories' commitment to scrap human rights legislation was raised with students unsure whether this meant scrapping the Human Rights Act, as threatened by tory MP Mark Pawsey in the Rugby Advertiser on 1 January 2015, or withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (which came into force in 1953 when Winston Churchill was Prime Minister). The Liberal Democrat speaker at the mock election said that the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland was based on Britain remaining a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights and abandoning it would be a threat to the peace agreement.