Anthony Butcher

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conse...302705,00.html
Once again, UKIP is lazily called a right wing party. Apart from our stance on leaving the EU and on Immigration, the party policies are very much in the centre ground, in my opinion.

Rather than worrying about how people will perceive the Tories, wouldn't they be better off resolving once and for all what the party membership actually wants? If most Tories think that Britain should leave the EU, then make that the official party line.

This lack of true conviction for any cause or principle is what puts voters off. The big three parties are obsessed with image and how their "policies" will be judged. In other words their policies are dictated by image rather than substance. This is why so many people didn't bother voting in the last general election; they just saw the main parties as insincere and opportunistic. How can you support a party when you have no idea what they actually stand for?

The more a party has public conversations that start with "The party needs to be seen to..." the more they should be worried that they don't have a real party.