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Howard: the Tories, Labour and the Libs have unlimited access to the tabloids, and that's what I said long ago to the UKIP committee, that by doing nothing, UKIP will get nowhere.
Without access to the press worth mentioning, the only way forward was to invest time and effort in trying to attract people's attention locally, going out and about and holding speeches to small - and gradually larger - crowds.
And allowing common people to say their word, to get their tuppence worth of two phrases over to a gathered group, and talking with each other.
Once a committee, or even the party at national level, does away with any attempt of open dialogue, it becomes an apparatnik society, where a few have the say (or one person at local level) and the others are left out in the cold.
But when one person allocates to themselves the sole right of speech, they have to do a damn good job and always be at it, in order to take the show forward.
As soon as they fall asleep, there's no-one else to do the job, is there?
It's a bit like when Paul B suggested a few months back, that UKIP should just go for one seat at the next G E, with Nigel Farage as candidate.
OK, but then why should all the others bother at all? If it's a one man show, then leave it to one man to do it himslef.
Not that Nigel suggested that, but perhaps he should have been more interested in how the local branches are doing, encouraging members who want to do something and allowing them to take an initiative.
So all we have left is to hope that the Government does the right thing and to cheer them on when they do something right.
But if Dave and Osborne continue targetting the financially vulnerable, and do nothing to stop unemployment reigning supreme, and if they allow for a situation to continue in which more people in Britain are in debt and more people are on antidepressant drugs owing to financial problems and lack of hope in the future, then the Government will certainly lose credibility.
As said, if 2012 is to be a year of sheer desparation and of continued EU crisis problems, and the usual nonsense about "not being allowed a referendum on the EU", then there will be a major collapse in credibility towards the parties.
One last word: let's not forget that the 100% opinion polls are false, FALSE, because they only give the results of answers from people who said they would vote for a party.
These opinion polls do not bring up the results in percentage terms of those who would NOT vote.
So Labour's 38%, for example, is pie in the sky. The actual percentage of the electorate who'd vote Labour is much lower. Likewise can be said of all the other parties.