UKIP now serious players – Farage

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said his party were “serious players” after it made gains in council polls across England.

Mr Farage said the “UKIP fox is in the Westminster hen house” after it gained more than 150 council seats.

While UKIP made some gains and built a little momentum you’d have to say they’re still some way short of being called serious players.

UKIP doesn’t have a single MP in Parliament and despite their gains in the council elections UKIP don’t control a single council.

Add to this that they have less than half the number of councillors than the Lib Dems, who are facing their worst result in an election of this kind for 30 years, and it makes you think that Farage and co clearly aren’t as ambitious as they come across, because at present they’re still very much on the fringes.

I also found it interesting that a spokesperson for UKIP went on BBC Radio 4 and said that UKIP had trouble appealing to “the educated, cultured and young,” and this is why they didn’t do so well in London. But on the plus side they did do extremely well among the elderly, illiterate philistines in the north.

Joking aside if a party has no MP’s in Westminster, has fewer councillors than the Lib Dems, doesn’t appeal to anyone in London and everyone is only familiar with one of their policies, talk of that party being a serious player is very premature.