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Originally Posted by Richard Allen
It is good progress. It would have been nice to hit 1,000 but lets not be churlish about this. For years UKIP showed almost no interest in local elections. We are finally moving in the right direction but these things take time.
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Last year UKIP won just one local council seat (Mr. Allison at Hartlepool) out of many hundreds contested.
On the other hand, the Christian People's Alliance - which hardly stood anywhere but concentrated its efforts in less than a dozen or so wards up and down the land - won three councillors at the London Borough of Newham.
This speaks for itself. Targeting works.
Ask the Respect Party, the Scottish Nationalists, Plaid Cymru, the Democratic Unionist Party and others. They all target. And they all have MPs as well as councillors.