Why Ukip languish in the polls

Exhibit 1 (and only 1 example is needed, really) Gawain Towler, Ukip Press Officer, posts on Twitter:

“@GawainTowler: I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/jzHzzG22 New Project“

a link which appears not to be ‘repostable’, but one in which Lawrence Webb, the Ukip Mayoral Candidate, talks about third place being up for grabs as Ukip are on 6%, only 1% behind the LibDems.

6%?! Bearing in mind the political climate why the hell are Ukip not on 26% – more importantly, for a party that would have us believe they are a force in British politics, why are they boasting that third place is ‘up for grabs’? Would not any political party, ‘worth its salt’,  not be proclaiming it could take 1st place – whether it believed that or not?

The mind ‘boggles’ – let alone go into decline. Who allowed such a ‘message’ to be produced? Where is the leadership, the strategy, the management? If a political party, one that maintains it could form a government, cannot put out a positive political campaigning message and do so competently – what chance does it have of convincing a country that it is capable of forming a government?

Just asking……………..

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