Nigel Farage: town halls are key to Ukip surge
"Nigel Farage has pledged to follow the example of Paddy Ashdown and to establish "clusters of councillors" around the country elected on the challenging first-past-the-post system as a first step to winning parliamentary seats at future general elections.
In a Guardian interview, the Ukip leader said people would vote for the "real thing" on Europe and immigration rather than support David Cameron who is occupying "our turf" under the influence of the Tory strategist Lynton Crosby.
Farage admitted that his party is experiencing something of a "lull" but insisted that it was on course to win next year's European parliamentary elections and to deepen its presence in council chambers...
...He endorsed an idea proposed by party deputy leader Godfrey Bloom that the party could buy policies from centre right thinktanks. "Why not?" Farage asked. "If somebody else out there has produced brilliant research, has got a lot more money to do this stuff then when [journalists] ask me a question about our economic policy I say: that is our policy but look who else agrees with it. ".."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jul/28/nigel-farage-town-halls-ukip