by David Bean on Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:28 pm
If they actually got their acts together and wrote a manifesto, hopefully this sort of thing wouldn't happen. UKIP, however, is at that difficult transition phase where a single-issue party who gets a few of its candidates in through a protest vote suddenly realises that if it's going to get anywhere, it needs to transform itself into a proper party with a coherent platform of policies - but the catch-22 is that it can't do that, because as soon as it tries, either its supporters give up and stop protesting, or one of the major parties half-inches the protest policy and renders them irrelevant. Or, in this case, it becomes apparent that the party comprises a bunch of useless nincompoops.
[hr]"Fiat justicia ruat coelum (let justice be done though the heavens may fall)" - Judge James Horton (family motto)
Psalm 91:7