Originally Posted by mkpdavies

Bottom line for UKIP though, was that Damian and Hulme had the seats. They tried to use that power to wrestle control of the party (that's politics) and then ****** up badly with the whole Vertias affair.

UKIP should have been pragmatic and brought them back in quite early on. Instead, noses were cut of to spite the face and everyone has ended up a loser in London for UKIP.


There is too much worrying about positions and jealously guarding them and not enough thinking about what will be good for the party in UKIP. All parties have that to a certain degree (Jesus look at Brown and Blair), but even they managed to put that aside enough to make sure their party had a chance of winning. If Blair had taken the UKIP approach, Brown would have been booted out years ago and Labour would probably have self destructed. Oh how I wish they had taken that approach, but they want power at the end of the day.

Does UKIP want power? I wonder sometimes.