The combination of money to spend on billboards and the like plus Kilroy must have doubled the number of MEPs for UKIP in 2004.
UKIP was within a whisker of getting the most votes in Kilroy's region.
The second party political broadcast, which Kilroy fronted, was superb (the first was good).
Kilroy was a liability, but there's no point in denying the short term impact.
May be UKIP needs to take risks like that, because the safe alternative is not promising.
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