Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
I think he's a loss. He seems highly regarded as a political operator and organizer and whatnot and clearly helped professionalise the party. I must say though, I thought he was poor when he was on question time. He's not very charismatic and seemed frankly, dull.

Any party needs a diverse range of names though. Rupert Lowe was a name. Perhaps not famous, but ran a premier league club. Zia Yusuf was of course also a name of sorts. Theres others, but not many.

Won't matter in a week or two, but they need to stop falling out with each other
There's quite a collection of somewhat high profile disgruntled former members collecting now.

Farage is the brand and without him they would lose votes but it doesn't feel like Farage shares well so anybody who oversteps, gets the boot. I don't think a one man band is going to win an election in the UK.