Originally Posted by Britannist

I think the answer for UKIP is to contest lots of seats up and down the land as they did in the local elections this month - but have an 'inner core' of key target seats where a special campaigning effort is made.

As you mention, RJT, the Greens are clearly out to win Brighton Pavilion constituency (having come within a few thousand votes of winning it from Labour at the last General Election) and will be targeting that seat with a serious intention of trying to pull off a victory there at the next General Election or the one after that.

UKIP should have three or four parliamentary constituencies in its sites where it is making a real effort to build up its support in local and national elections. We know where most of those four seats are - they are the ones where UKIP got its highest votes at the last General Election and the ones where it has one or more directly elected councillor (s) (i.e. people elected under the UKIP banner).

The local UKIP MEPs in each of those target constituencies could help by campaigning and canvassing and introducing themselves to local people in those seats as their MEP.