The ends justify the means though. UKIP was formed to get the UK out of the EU, and Brexit did indeed happen. Mission accomplished I guess, so is there really a need for UKIP anymore?
I "think" that they released their policy manifesto too early. They formed over Brexit, but hadn't acquired enough goodwill amongst the populace in order to become a more mainstream party.
They should have saw Brexit through to the end, celebrated, and then change gears to become a more mainline party.
Loosing Farage didn't help, and him forming the Brexit Party hurt UKIP a lot by taking alot of those "Brexit-only" voters.
It was a bad decision for UKIP to bring in Sargon, Tommy R, Dankula, etc... its to easy for the media to take the spicy things that they have said and post it up for the country to see, in order to make UKIP look far-right.
That being said, UKIP was already on a downward trajectory prior to that and would have fizzled out regardless.
As far as I'm concerned, Gerard Batten was a good leader of UKIP after Farage. However there was a lot of politicking in the UKIP leadership which then ousted Batten. This combined with them releasing unpopular political policies killed their party.
It wasn't only external circumstances, much of it was also self inflicted.
To be fair, UKIP did a lot of damage to itself. They spread themselves to thin...
The ends justify the means though. UKIP was formed to get the UK out of the EU, and Brexit did indeed happen. Mission accomplished I guess, so is there really a need for UKIP anymore?
I "think" that they released their policy manifesto too early. They formed over Brexit, but hadn't acquired enough goodwill amongst the populace in order to become a more mainstream party.
They should have saw Brexit through to the end, celebrated, and then change gears to become a more mainline party.
Loosing Farage didn't help, and him forming the Brexit Party hurt UKIP a lot by taking alot of those "Brexit-only" voters.
It was a bad decision for UKIP to bring in Sargon, Tommy R, Dankula, etc... its to easy for the media to take the spicy things that they have said and post it up for the country to see, in order to make UKIP look far-right.
That being said, UKIP was already on a downward trajectory prior to that and would have fizzled out regardless.
As far as I'm concerned, Gerard Batten was a good leader of UKIP after Farage. However there was a lot of politicking in the UKIP leadership which then ousted Batten. This combined with them releasing unpopular political policies killed their party.
It wasn't only external circumstances, much of it was also self inflicted.