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Originally Posted by Alex McKee
Why do we need a rebrand?
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Are you serious? While UKIP has been in the past the most effective counter to the UK's deepening participation in the EU project, and its cause of parliamentary democracy and UK independence is ... second only to that of the Free England Party (!) ... yet there has been scandal after scandal involving the senior leadership and the party is not electorally credible at all.
UKIP needs to have a drastic re-think asap. Once UKIP loses some/most of its MEPs in June 2009, the resources available to the party for a re-brand will shrink quickly.
UKIP therefore has a window for a fundamental review of strategy, name, tactics etc. Miss the opportunity and the baton passes to another party.
I could note plenty of detailed points, but the key change would be UKIP taking the lead in pushing for an English Parliament and England's exit from the EU, the breaking of the Union (as in UK) and the creation of good and efficient and harmonious inter-government dealings within the former UK.
The Union Parliament and the professional political class - IMHO - have lost all moral authority. Time to change.
UKIP has to move quickly or will become history. If UKIP really think it does not need to change radically, it shows what a closed world your members live in. I do not want to be rude to any of you guys, but the above is how I see it.