U K I P Loses Another Candidate

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32028343

Farage should have lanced this boil and sacked this daft woman last year, when she made her "ting tong" remark. He has now lost three Parliamentary candidates in less than a week, and its only 6 weeks to the next Election.

Complete shambles, from the Party that is supposed to be "breaking the mold"

[Retrochic]

mikey its a bit more complicated than that, and although I would love to continue this debate I have to go to work. :-)

[ichkeria]

Ting tong another one's gone :-)

[mikey4444]

Gromit...fair point.

But Farage should have done that a long time ago. He took over the leadership shortly after the 2010 Election. He has had 5 years to get things right, and he is still struggling in the short time we have left before the next Election. He is, quite frankly, floundering.

I have made this point before, but I have a certain amount of sympathy for him here. Personally, I think he has an almost impossible task. Only recently, he was quoted as saying that his Party had but one single issue....to get a referendum and to leave the EC. He said that as soon as that was achieved, his job would be complete, and the Party could be dissolved. The clue is in a previous name for his Party...The Referendum Party.

But since he has taken the decision to turn UKIP into a Party that is all things to all men, he has found that its not that simple anymore. He is trying to fight on too many fronts at the same time. And its not working. Its crisis management, on a grand scale, and its no way for a Party that wants to be taken seriously, to be trying to win an Election.

He will come out of all this with probably a seat for himself at Westminster, and maybe a small handful of colleagues. He has said that he thinks UKIP will come 2nd in lots of seats, but so what ? The Tories and Labour have been coming second in 100's of seats for as long as anybody can remember.

[mikey4444]

Thanks Retrochic...me too soon!

[Peter Pedant]

// Peter its easy to take the moral high ground on an anonymous Forum, its kind of expected in certain circles. //

yes retro it certainly is - as you have shown by that comment. ( irony klasxon please )

and I imagine that also means you will turn down doing my accts for similar lofty moral reasons ?

[Gromit]

UKIP are not trying to be all things to all men.

They aim to be a populist right of centre party, and are succeeding. Their vetting procedures will have to improve. At the moment they rely on the media to do that for them but then act decisively when a candidate is outed as unsuitable. The result is a bit of short lived bad publicity which has been nipped in the bud.

Until UKIP make a breakthrough and have enough MPs and backing, they cannot afford to work any other way.

[Retrochic]

Peter I have Accounts for two businesses to prepare shortly so unfortunately can't take up your offer of employment, though should you wish to be educated on the finer points of profit and loss accounting I would advise reading the following books
Accounting Year End by Wendy Auditors-Cumming
Beginner's Guide to Variance Analysis by Amos Lookintooit
101 Sabanes-Oxley Questions by Betty Snoncompliant
;-)

[youngmafbog]

They clearly are succeeding and judging by the multitude of disparaging posts from brother Mickey they are worrying quite a few!

[Zacs-Master]

It's the intelligence of their supporters that really worries me.

[janbee]

Oh for heaven's sake, give it a rest. Another day and yet another anti UKIP rant from u-no-hoo.

If they are such a joke of a party, why do they trouble you sooooo much? Just ignore them if they upset you.

Look to your own party first(it used to be my party until I saw the light) if you're looking for flaws and imperfections.

ALL parties have problems. Mr Farage at least gets rid of his, unlike the other leaders who hang on to their dregs and give them their "full support and backing", just before they get booted out.

Please, just let it go. Life's too short to continue this daily rant. Come May, it'll all be over and it doesn't matter which party you vote for... you still end up with "the government".

Then, we get to do it all again in another 5 years. They are all rubbish.

[mikey4444]

As long as UKIP keeps putting their feet in it, I shall continue to subject to them to the ridicule they deserve. And the rate they are doing it, you shall be hearing from me again very soon I expect !

Janbee....you have said you used to be a Labour supporter. Ah, a fair weather friend it would seem (tic)

Gromit....you have said that UKIP are succeeding. I don't accept that at all, but if its true, then their supporters must be very blinkered indeed. UKIP are in complete disarray, so if people are still willing to give them a vote, perhaps Zacs concerns have some truth.

[Jackdaw33]

It's a good job UKIP and paedophiles exist, otherwise you'd be hard up for something to post about.

[mikey4444]

Jackdaw...that is plain daft. I post on a variety of subjects, as do you ! If you don't like the subject of the debate, why join in ?

[Jackdaw33]

I do like the subject. The more you post the more I am drawn to UKIP.

[mikey4444]

So .....you are drawn to a Party that seems to be composed of a lot of ex-Tory, misogynist, casually racist idiots then Jackdaw !

So tell me this. If you put your cross next to the purple Poundshop candidate in a few weeks time, what will you have achieved ?

[Jackdaw33]

//So .....you are drawn to a Party that seems to be composed of a lot of ex-Tory, misogynist, casually racist idiots then Jackdaw ! //

That's how you perceive it, others don't.

I won't be voting UKIP, though, I'll be holding my nose and voting Tory as it is the only realistic chance of getting a referendum on the EU.

[mikey4444]

Common sense in your last sentence Jackdaw....it is indeed the only way that we will get a referendum. But UKIP supporters can't quite seem to grasp that, although I am not sure why, as it is blindingly obvious. A vote for UKIP is a wasted vote.