On Thu, 12 Feb 2015 10:24:01 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

So why on _earth_ does Farridge keep allowing so many wierdos, bigots
and monomaniacs to represent the party?

*Farage* doesn't.

Then he has bollock all control over the rest of his party.

The MSM scour the media for anything they can use to create the
impression that he does.

Because, of course, (to take just one example) re-appointing somebody as
first on the regional MEP candidate list years after a series of hugely
controversial views on rape, homosexuality, and almost every other
subject under the sun doesn't condone those kind of comments, at all,
does it? And then not taking any action when that self-same controversy-
on-legs is photographed leaving out of a knocking-shop, with his only
comment to the press being "Well, we all deserve a private life"?

Oh, wait. He's an ex-Tory MEP. Just wait - there'll be a wriggle coming
up in a sec...

Just about every time a rotten egg surfaces, it turns out he/she was a
(deliberate?)refugee from another political party.

Just like both MPs and the party leader, you mean?

The impression given by such a never-ending stream of wierdos, bigots and
monomaniacs being repeatedly appointed, re-appointed and tacitly approved
as candidates is of a party which either condones them or doesn't have a
lot of choice, because the choice is them or nobody. Which is it?

And, fwiw, the one UKIP Westminster candidate who I actually know is,
frankly, utterly hatstand. Most supporters are either utterly deluded or
just don't really know what UKIP are other than vaguely "It's all the
fault of Johnny Foreigner. I know, because the Daily Mail tells me so,
and they wouldn't lie to me."