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A small seaside town on the English coast is in the centre of a political battle that could this week see the populist UK Independence Party (UKIP) win its first seat at Westminster.

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The residents of Clacton-on-Sea in Essex will vote in a by-election triggered by Conservative MP Douglas Carswell's defection to UKIP.
Mr Carswell is one of two Tory MPs to jump ship - meaning British prime minister David Cameron can no longer write UKIP off as a party full of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists".
Clacton has a higher than average rate of unemployment and a high number of pensioners, and Tim Bale, Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University London, says that makes it a "particular type of constituency where you'd expect UKIP to do well".
"It's not the land that time forgot", said Professor Bale, but "it's got a lot of what I sometimes refer to as left-behind voters, voters for whom globalisation has not necessarily been good news".
UKIP campaigns for tight curbs on immigration, but Mr Carswell rejects the suggestion that the party is anti-immigrant.
"We are not anti-immigrant", he said, "we are against uncontrolled immigration."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-06/the-rise-of-right-wing-parties-in-the-uk/5791812
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