Then sadly that is not how UKIP is seen. It is seen as a reactionary and old persons party of somewhere between the Conservatives and the BNP. Perhaps due to the name it is also a one issue party.
More and more people have to vote tactically now. A vote for a party that is not going to win the seat is wasted. The LDs get all the protest votes against either or both the other two. Yes Conservatives are not ideal, but general elections are about he least worst party to support that may win, not your ideal one. General elections are not single issue affairs, one has to take a hotch potch basket of policies.
The promised referendums are the place where the EU relationship will be scuppered, UKIP will never become the government, but can be of powerful voice on the EU issue.
We have a liberal party, they love the EU, we need the main right wing party to be much more liberal in regard to our freedoms, leaving despotic authoritarianism to the Left and Labour.
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