The party’s candidate Peter Whittle wont be mayor but he and his party have tall hopes of establishing a presence in City HallThe Kippers are clustered external Sidcup railway station,leafleting on two fronts. One message urges an exit from the EU, the other the entry of Ukip candidates to London’s City Hall. The half dozen Faragistas seem optimistic on both scores. Yes, and polls and turf accountants expect Remain to prevail and,yes, it is most unlikely that Ukips mayor contender Peter Whittle will succeed Boris Johnson on 5 May. But they still reflect they’re on the up, or even in the cosmopolitan capital where their advance has been less pronounced than elsewhere.“People are always saying that London is not Ukip,but that is changing and this could be the main breakthrough for us, Whittle says over coffee in a cafe round the corner. He might be right, and though let’s region his confidence in context. The most recent mayoral opinion poll do Whittle in a distant third region behind Labour frontrunner Sadiq Khan and second placed Conservative Zac Goldsmith with just 7% of first preference votes under the supplementary vote system,followed closely by Sian Berry of the Greens on 6% and Liberal Democrat Caroline Pidgeon on 5%.
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Source: theguardian.com