[Livia]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Well yeah but what do they have to choose from? There has been one incident after another so I've no idea how their supporters can seriously talk of a smear campaign. Ukip are doing a great job losing votes by themselves. The quality of the people they want to put in office a joke.

Well, I can only speak from my own experience, I've never worked for UKIP... but the selection process for councillors, MEPs and MPs is the same as a job interview. You have to choose the best, most qualified candidate from a set of applicants. Sadly, fewer and fewer people are opting to stand and so the pool they're fishing from has got smaller and smaller. It gets to the point where you have to take anyone willing to stand in that area. UKIP being a small and virtually untested party suffer more than most when it comes to attracting suitable candidates.

Nice to see you back...I expect it feels positively arctic in comparison.