Originally Posted by Peter Hitchens

That sound you hear is the soft thud of my head beating against the wall,
as I try to explain this simple thing: The Tory Party is finished forever
and will never win another election. The grim reaper reduces its vote each
week, and it is not replaced because Tories stopped breeding 35 years ago.
It is Labour's ideal opposition, the only party Labour can always beat. The
worst POSSIBLE thing to happen at any election is a Tory 'recovery', which
will prolong the life of this useless, doomed party for yet another four
years of ineffectual opposition and lost elections. If only people had
followed my advice in 2005, and refused to vote for it, it might have
collapsed by now and there would be hope.

A lot of people(including me) don't like UKIP because of its cravat-wearing
Dad's Army aspect, because of the braying , home counties golf-club accents
of its leading figures, because of its pitiful naivety over Kilroy, who
used it when it thought it was using him. Others (including me) don't like
it because of that ninny who went on about women cleaning behind the
fridge. Others (including me) see it, with some justice, as a single-issue
party that has belatedly invented some other policies on the side (that
outdated, weird symbol of a £ sign is a big liability, as is the name.
'Ukay' is not the name of our country, it's a bureaucratic, denatured set
of initials) . Also it is proof of Henry Kissinger's adage that the worst
faction fights take place in the most insignificant organisations,
precisely because the stakes are so small, and - with no realistic prospect
of real power - political people enjoy the strife for its own sake. I am
endlessly battered with e-mails from various factions in UKIP urging me to
take sides with them.