Michael Heaver

While I agree that our London performance was disappointing, I just have this feeling that with Nigel leading us, we are going to absolutely smash the ball out of the stratosphere next year and make British political history in the European Elections.

The Tories have already shot themselves in the foot by p****** off a lot of their members with an unashamedly biased selection system that gave vast preference to female and pro-EU candidates. I know a few Tories as well who are incredibly disgruntled with the Cameron's broken promise in regards to the EPP group in the EU Parliament. This is only going to add to the number of part-time UKIP voters we attracted in 2004. What you have to remember as well is that eurosceptic Tory members in the Party have fewer and fewer reasons to stick around now. Hannan and Helmer, yeah, okay, and a handful of MP's too, but Bob Spink coming over to us will certainly give us more credibility in their eyes. Spink was well respected among the anti-EU Tory collective.

Question UKIP's 'single issue' status all you like, but when it comes to the EU issues, UKIP are the ONLY show in town for informed eurorealists (the number's of which are increasing, from the conversations I have).

I’m going to go out on a limb and say….UKIP come away with 21 MEP’s, with a view to beating the Tories in the EU election after that.