What makes me laugh is Oldschooltie talking about whether Ukip can keep improving between now and 2015. The polls are showing the party’s support is ebbing away and Oldschooltie is only talking now about 7% of the vote and being nothing more than a spolier. What will that change?

If there’s something these kippers are good at its moving the goal posts. The great cry of Ukip being a single issue party was only coming from the other parties. Ukip should have stuck to its ground and shown that being in the EU affects most issues. Instead it courted the racists and xenophobes to give the impression the party had made electoral progress when its now just a dustbin for those voters and increasingly hated by a majority of ordinary voters.

Never mind. Tallbloke will be back talking about holding the balance of power at the next election and believing it. Nutters fruitcakes and closet racists was the one thing Camoron has ever said that was true.

Clearly there was s urge in the EU elections and also at Newark, albeit UKIP came 2nd, but were they really expected to win the Toreis 44th safest seat? Surely, Labour should have done better at Newark if, as the Lib Dems say, voters do not like the Coalition.

It remains to be seen if UKIP can keep improving between now and 2015 and here wlll be many twists and turns before we get to May 2015. One thing is for sure, neither Labour or Consevartive can be sure of winning an outright majority if UKIP take a mere 7% share of the vote and they are well on course to do just that,

As for getting out of the EU, they great cry was “UKIP is a single issue party”, so when they comment on other areas, particulkarly the No 1 issue for many voters, they are castigated for not wanting out of the EU.

These are not good times for the anti-EU side.xx

Quite.

And that is why I suspect they are a plant by the “main partys” to split the vote.

As you say yourself; “The only impact the party will have is to deprive some Conservatives from winning seats.”

Worthy sacrifices?

WHO is financing UKIP?

AM, you’ve read Flexcit and been through Richard’s powerpoint presentation from the CiB Harrogate presentation?

Such as, and as opposed to what, exactly?

Richard says: “Mr Cameron’s referedum (sic) represents our best bet for getting out of the EU, the main obstacle to EU withdrawal is UKIP.”

Are you referring to the ill-fated one their Lordships binned or the hypothetical one we’re waiting for a private member to table?

Cameron wouldn’t win a working majority whether UKIP was around or not. The Tories haven’t since the early 1990’s and their membership is dropping faster than an honourable members expenses claim sheet total.

As it is, UKIP stands a good chance of winning the balance of power at the GE in 2015 and putting some vim into the process.

The essence of policy is that it constantly evolves, and with the Flexcit plan, I am preparing, it is just that, cast as a “living document” with new editions posted as it grows and evolves. That is the antithesis of being “cast in stone”.

Presenting policy development in this way, as an open process, encourages debate and partication, adding to depth and quality to the finished product. As it stands, UKIP’s silence means that it isn’t even part of the debate. If it then produces a policy, ex cathedra, the likelihood is that it will be a shallow affair, having not emerged from an ongoing debate.