You could be onto something Robert. Very exciting and I would love to see UKIP forge links. It seems unfair how N. Ireland has been sectioned off.
My gut instinct, without having been to Ulster, is that anything linked to UKIP would be naturally seen as Unionist. But it might be seen as genuinely unionist rather than Orange men - specific to Northern ireland- type Unionist. Also, you wouldn`t be an occassional prop for the Tories.
One thing to consider would be to go for a one issue anti EU alliance that allowed constituency variation on the Nat/Unionist divide while making plain it isn`t the main issue. It was touted that UKIP could once have been UKIP-Labour in a Labour seat and UKIP-Tory in a Tory seat. I am glad that we didn`t go for the one issue line but it is one way to fight it and may be pertinent to where you are from. I don`t hold with the idea that at Stormont you must declare which tradition you are from (what utter c@*p) but unless you are one or two issue based, you may well get asked about it by constituents I`m afraid!
So lots to ponder. Keep at it mate. Maybe Lechlade will have a ryanair away day in Belfast one day (that would be a laugh riot).
