britannist, I agree with the above, except to add that Nigel Farage would be a good MP and positive standard bearer. He would be able to stand up to all three "major" party leaders. (I say "major" as none of them can get more than 20% positive support from the electorate!).
No disrespect, but the present leader comes across as a bank manager from the sixties. Petrina Holdsworth may be perfectly capable but has a "county" image and the others are relatively unknown.
Farage has the greatest assets of being reasonably well known (and well known to pundits!), politically astute, and can speak on non-EU issues.
Getting the leader elected to the House of Commons must be UKIP's single-minded passion from now on. In the Commons the leader has a platform to speak out!
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