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In her last news letter, in January, Marta Andreasen wrote that she believed Nigel Farage would stand at the Eastleigh by-election, convinced he would make it for UKIP.
When he didn't stand, but decided instead to campaign from behind the camera while sending someone else forward as candidate. something must have snapped.
As we can see now, UKIP almost made it, with not many votes separating them from the LibDem winner.
Had Farage stood, he'd have taken the bold step, and probably won; but by dithering about, he lost the occasion.
It is not clear whether he will get another chance like that, or whether he actually has the courage to stand up and be counted at the polls. If Farage is afraid of personally losing, while being presented nationwide as UKIP's main - and only - protagonist, then he will lose the support of many other prominent UKIP members.
In a one-man party, the one man doing it all is at least expected to stand up and either win or lose, not stand back and send others forward into the fray, only to be chopped down on the field at the poll-count.
People might follow a one-man party, so long as the one man is prepared to challenge and either stand or fall, but not if he lounges back and sends others forward to fall for him.
Only the courageous win!
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