UKIP Death Rattle (2)

Interesting to hear Nigel Farage on LBC last night talking about the UKIP battle. He said that the UKIP NEC needs to be more professional and a lot less amateur.

He said he wouldn't go back until things had changed. But sadly I think the time for UKIP is long past. Unless the NEC can recognise it's flaws and sort things out, I very much doubt there will be a UKIP at the end of the year.

The cost of yet another leadership contest and the libel lawsuit that has recently charged UKIP £200,000 I think will just about kill the party.

It's a shame that the UKIP voice will fall quiet, they were a force in UK politics and despite not getting much re[presentation in Parliament, up to the referendum they represented the voice of a sizeable chunk of the population.

From interviews over the last few days, new interim leader Gerard Batten seems unapologetic for things he has said in teh past. Things that the majority of people outside the Westminster PC bubble would not say. He handled himself quite well in interviews. A party leader unapologetic and with a spine, at last.

I must admit it's a refreshing change and certainly at first glance UKIP would be well served by voting him in as their proper leader.