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I don't agree with that, Howard.
When people change from one party to another (unless they have their own party), they tell the public that they are party-jumpers, and the party that courts and then promotes them high above all others tells the public they need these people to put the cause forward.
Whereas a genuine one-timer doesn't get the chance to have a word. So when silenced off, they'll give up! That is where much sincere good will is lost, when simple people don't get a word in, but a party-jumper wallops along and gets hosannered in high.
Also, at an election, people know how many parties a candidate has been in, and in the name of how many parties they have been candidate.
What UKIP don't realise, is that a sincere person joining a party, if allowed to have a word, will be enthusiastic, but once that is done away with and exchanged for a couch-surfer who changes party and gets put at the top, what remains is an artificial house of cards.
Open the door and it will fall down.
Does anyone ever see UKIP in Dover or Deal talking to the people about the eurozone crisis, or unemployment, or immigration? No!
All the parties we have in Britain are establishment-based, undemocratic in nature, and punctuated on not letting common people say their word.
Do it a few times and people lose interest!
And running after the heavy weights of other parties is just the wrong message to put over to the masses, and in particular to the sincere members of your own party.