UKIP Gets No Lords in Latest Government Peerages, Twitter Reacts

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The UK Independence Party (UKIP) was awarded zero seats in the House of Lords despite being the third largest political party in the country, as well as having a Member of Parliament, and winning the European Elections last year.

During the last government, Prime Minister David Cameron promised to base the next round of peerages on vote share, rather than the number of MPs in the Commons. Despite this, he has awarded UKIP no peers, and Twitter seems to have a problem with it: 

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