Tom Wilde

The Morning Star is actually owned by the Communist Party, not the SWP. It is indeed daily, and is sold in newsagents alongside the other daily papers (though its circulation is very small compared with theirs).

The SWP rag is called the Socialist Worker and is sold by their activists standing on streetcorners.

This is interesting because we need to be clear which of those models we want to follow. We could go for producing a magazine or newspaper sold through newsagents. This would be quite possible, though expensive. I wouldn't recommend going daily - I'd suggest starting monthly and then go bi-weekly if we ever had the resources. It might be possible to simply expand Independence and sell that through the newsagents. The balance of material in it would need to be shifted so there was slightly less about the internal workings of UKIP and slightly more of interest to non-members who simply sympathize with our ideas. You would reach people who aren't currently members and are simply browsing the shelves in their newsagents when they stumble across it.

Alternatively we could go for the model Basildon Boy suggests - a tabloid style news sheet which can be given away from stalls at events or even shoved through people's doors. In the later case, you could have a newspaper of (say) 8 pages, where the middle four pages were the same everywhere but the outer four pages (ie pages 1, 2, 7 and 8 ) were printed separately and could therefore cover more local news. This would enable us to swiftly produce an impressive "UKIP News - Middlethorpe Edition" if there was a by-election in Middlethorpe and so on.