The end of UKIP?

[Workingman]

Even Farage thinks so.

It cannot keep a leader long enough for one to get their feet under the table. It could not keep hold of its only MP who jumped ship at the first opportunity, and it cannot keep hold of many of its councillors.

In any case its job is done - it got the Brexit referendum.

Goodbye UKIP, you will not be missed.

[medsec222]

Cant help wishing we had someone with Nigel's commitment to leave to do the negotiating. Too much shilly shallying around now.

[TheOstrich]

Oh, I shall miss them - I won't know who to vote for now!

But at the end of the day, UKIP in its current form has run its course, and it should now be formally wound up.

[Suff]

The problem with the UKIP is not actually what the press is reporting. It is not so much a case of the UKIP being unable to keep a leader, as much as the candidates putting themselves up for leadership are fundamentally unable to get the job done.

This whole thing with Bolton is not about his personal relationship or about his girlfriends tweets and racism. It is about the fact that he has fundamentally failed to get the UKIP organised for the oncoming local elections and has, instead, focused all his energy in moving the power of the party away from the National Executive and into the Leader and the Leadership team.

As a party member I received the internal email from one of the senior NEC members telling us what is going on and asking us to vote down Bolton's constitutional changes. I've also received three of Bolton's personal "I'm a good guy vote for me and, by the way, I'm saying nothing about my personal life", emails.

I note that whilst just about everything else has leaked to the press, the appeal from the NEC and the reasons for it, have not leaked. Which means to me that it has leaked but the press don't want to run that story.

The UKIP still has a vital role to play in keeping the main parties focused on doing a good job of Brexit and also doing a good job of staying out of the customs union and developing our relationships with the rest of the world. The main parties would love NOTHING more, than the very real vehicle for unhappy voters, which the UKIP stands for, to vanish. It would appear that the press agree with them.

When political parties and the press collude to take choices away from you, as a voter, you need to start asking questions as to why. Sadly, the way British politics work, the vast majority of people only start asking questions once they have lost the ability to act.