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Originally Posted by JoeP
Ukip's only MP Douglas Carswell quits party | Politics | The Guardian
He quit the Conservative Party to join UKIP, now quits UKIP to be an independent.
He has a point. Now that UKIP has "won" - in achieving its goal, if not in being successful in power which is the actual point of a political party - there's no point in UKIP.
The real story of course is all the internal factions in the "party". Is it reassuring that far right (and far left) parties seem to squabble a lot? Or is that a factor in pushing the Conservatives to adopt their positions rather than oppose them?
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Aside from there never having been a point to making UKIP a party, it seems to me that quitting the UKIP to become an independent is a bit of a redundancy, isn't it? Isn't UKIP the "United Kingdom Independent Party"? So, this guy is no longer an Independent (UKIP), but now an independent?
I suspect there is a nuance here that I do not understand.