The 600 Strong Rode Into Newark

We've had Local Elections, we've had European Elections now we have a By-Election, if you live in Newark you're in for a treat, you get to vote 3 times in one year.

As loyal as i am to the Conservative Party, i just don't think UKIP have the ground, the people or the funds to fight this By-Election.

The whole UKIP thingy seems like a flash in the pan, you can only shock and awe for so long before the initial shock wears off, take Iraq for example, we gave them shock and awe and it didn't take long before they wanted us out, in the same analogy it won't take long before people want UKIP out.

Sensationalising by the media is what has got people hopping around like bunnies shouting UKIP are going to do this and that,  clearly a party with one policy isn't really going anywhere.

With that being said today in Newark over 600 activists turned out to campaign for the upcoming By-Election, but was it panic and fear of UKIP or merely the oldest party in the country flexing it's political muscle?

This By-Election for me won't throw up any shocks, i wasn't shocked by the European Election results, i don't think UKIP are going to shock me in this election.

The Citadel Still Stands, Was It A Tremor Or A Murmur?

2014 was the year of UKIP, the rise of a protest party and that was about it, nothing really much to shout about.

Most results were already predicted, the slide of the Lib Dems, Labour and the Conservatives losing ground, but still i don't see myself shouting about anything.

All i see is that everyone who stood for election got so blindsided by UKIP and Nigel Farage that they forgot what they were doing and that is to win a election for their party.

Most Townhalls are still standing, UKIP only really took a handful of seats, they didn't take entire councils and in 2015 it is unlikely that they will get any MPs and that is how you judge your success, how many backsides you have on the benches in the House of Commons and in Councils around the country.

UKIP for me have limited appeal, they have limited policies and limited funds and no self respecting business owner would really fund them, i don't think they're fruitcakes in the way they've been portrayed, their election campaign was merely shock and awe when everyone else was hoodwinked into thinking something else.

UKIP remind me of the days of old, the protest vote for the BNP & National Front, two parties with limited appeal and policies, where are they now?

You don't have to be a mathematician to work out how UKIP work, they do the same as any other protest party, work areas of deprivation and poverty, promise the earth and don't deliver.

If your into UKIP i wish you all the best of luck, it's going to be a rocky road to find legitimacy, i don't think i'll be hearing the immortal words of "I vote UKIP because my mum, dad, aunt, uncle, parrot did, so do I!"