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Originally Posted by steve fowler
I agree. I was in Australia last year when when got no wins at all, I consider this year winning two,three whatever seats is better then not getting any at all.
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It's not just the seats that we are winning but the good results we are getting even when we aren't winning. In those areas where we did win seats, we got lots of other good results as well. And in other areas such as Rotherham we also had some very good results. This means that at least some UKIP branches are beginning to get things right. The challenges for next the next couple of years will be to get this knowledge disseminated to branches elsewhere so that we can put up a good fight in next year's County Council elections and 2010, and to get our membership up. In many respects it is our lack of active members which is our greatest handicap now. Outside of London it seems relatively easy for UKIP to get at least 5% of the votes cast in a local election without too much effort, and if we can get more committed candidates and volunteers throughout the country we will begin to get noticed and we will also begin to win a great deal more seats. Down in Lewes our priority over the coming months is to run a membership drive modeled on the one that Christchurch did with such success.
One thing that is becoming readily apparent is the decline of the Labour Party and the Lib Dems in various areas (the Tories are enthusiastic and going from strength to strength for the time being). In Woking Labour could only put up a few candidates, and here in Runnymede the Lib Dems only stood in six wards. And we seem to be beating Lib Dems and Labour candidates quite regularly throughout the country.