>> Well done for standing Roger. I don't mind people voting UKIP, as long as they
>> vote.
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>> The more people cycnically decline to take part, either by voting or standing, the worse
>> will be the representatives we end up with.
>>
Well we are, locally, gearing up for the May 2014 District Council elections with a public meeting on Sunday with our MEP as guest speaker.
Our council elects 1/3 of its members at each election, so we have to find 15 candidates prepared to put their heads over the parapet.
We have 50 members on our branch roll, but not too many activists - usual, I suppose.
Our party's breadth of support nationally is a source of weakness as well as strength, as our members are not concentrated in pockets, unlike the Lib Dems, say, thus making it difficult under the FPTP system to actually win seats.
At the last County Council elections for instance, (in Nottinghamshire), UKIP garnered substantially more votes overall than the Lib Dems. We had no councillors elected: they had eight elected.
Still, that's the way it's done; it's up to us to get organised and plug away!
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