Ukip Sellout To Loony Right?

For my 16 years in Ukip - now just a memory -  there was never even a hint that there was any rightist agenda.

The members you met were cool, sensible and anti-LibLabConGreens and the whole political correctness nonsense.

In so many ways, the party was apolitical with a shared anti-EU agenda across a wide range of political opinions. It shunned the BNP and similar as being rather nasty political infants.

At the party's high point in 2014, it had the chance to become the second party of the UK - and blew it big-style.

Nigel lost the plot; people so desperate to get a Nigel clone opted for the absurd Wolfman; policy-thinking was narrow, often silly, frequently trivial and most unappealing to the voters we should have targeted.

We needed to pitch for the common sense people amongst the electorate and blew it big style!

As leader followed leader - we truly lost the plot and rightists - who would have formerly been given their marching orders - began to surreptitiously join the party.

Proof? - Well I have been reading the articles and, more pertinently, the responses to them in the comments sections of Ukip Daily - and there has been a mega shift in the party's attitudes since 2014. Common sense is still found - but the extremist views purveyed are so very often ill-informed and rightist.

This is not the party I joined.

If Henry Bolton meets the challenge full on, it is doubtful that Ukip can still be saved but he is quite surely its final, forlorn hope!