I've seen a remarkable number of people recently say they want to vote UKIP but they also don't want an SNP influence in England...or they don't want to let Labour in etc etc.
Now election strategists have said the most successful way to get votes(and it's proven to work again and again) is make people fear the alternative. The negative campaigning that a vote for this person will = This person(unliked person/party) has always worked. So the Conservative party have been briefed on this as have Labour hence their huge campaigns that voting for UKIP = Something else.
Originally they tried to say voting UKIP = A vote for Miliband, while that had some effect, they now say voting UKIP = A vote for Alex Salmond & SNP or both combined.
But it's interesting with the SNP. Because Labour had been selling this line in Scotland.
''A vote for the SNP is a vote for the Tories'' Suggesting the SNP taking Labour seats will get David Cameron into number 10.
Now why did this fail? SNP voters did not listen. Thus the SNP vote grew and now it's almost double what it was when Labour originally started this tactic and they have become the majority in Scotland.
So if you fall into this trap that election strategists and Cameron and co wants where you vote for a party to deny another party you in effect have been tricked by a smokes and mirrors wording.
In reality it stops the growth of UKIP, gets UKIP vote share % down, Limits UKIP's mp's. Then makes the next election harder to breakthrough in areas where UKIP got a lower % as people feel they cant win this time also even if the support is actually there, thus people again vote for one of the main two & nothing really changes. It's all one big game to keep the same players in roles where they can milk expenses & take people for fools.
You will see Cameron & the media supporting the Tories(The Sun, Mail etc) purport this line while suddenly they start adopting UKIP-lite ideas...to make it seem as if you will get UKIP policies more or less anyway, so might as well vote Tories as it will stop SNP/Labour too. This is simply taking you and you for a fool. It's all a game by people uninterested in what people really want or think, simply adapting when they need your vote, once they've got it...they will revert to type.
So actually voting UKIP should be all that matters, and maybe if everyone did that, suddenly UKIP would be a threat everywhere, and you wouldn't need to even consider voting another party to keep other party's out, because voting UKIP would keep them out.
In the history of British politics Labour & the Tories have had a monopoly on power...and there's many tactics they use to keep that power....hopefully more people wake up to this particular tactic,
