I recall in the old days before Nigel Farage became leader of UKIP he used to brag that UKIP was a grassroots party. It never was of course, but whatever growth there was in the roots started wilting after the E.U Elections in 2004.
If the grass roots were really important, UKIP's local election results in May 2008 should have triggered some positive reaction from the man with the watering-can but all that we are witnessing is an unseemly amount of infighting over the candidates' placings for the E.U. Election in 2009.
At the recent by-election the candidate for Maldon North Ward did not even have the strength to mark his nomination paper with the UKIP name.
Is UKIP capable of being revived or have the roots finally perished?
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