If anything, this referendum has come too soon. Many say that it was Farage who gave us this referendum. I am not going to argue. But what he has given us is a poisoned chalice. We have no campaign organisation to speak of, the rump of what is left is in decline and what remains of it is perceived as racist, incompetent and risible.
Having cut corners, trading sustainable growth for rapid expansion, hoovering up the BNP vote and souring the milk he has delivered a referendum without the means to fight it. Ukip central office should be the one with the answers having had highly paid staff at the heart of the machine for over a decade. They should have the answers, but they don't. What little answers we have are on the back of a few unpaid bloggers - all of whom are the subjected to personal abuse from kippers because kippers do not like uncomfortable truths.
What should be an energetic and electrifying campaign is a soggy facecloth. It has utterly failed to capture the public imagination, most people are bored by it, most people don't even care and most just want it over and done with. Including me.
And so while we can point the finger at grubby operators like Matthew Elliott, Daniel Hannan and the likes who have made a career and a few quid out of euroscepticism, it is ultimately the vanity and foolishness of Farage that has brought us to this point.
I might even go as far as saying that the Leave campaign adopting a plan would have been insufficient without having a ground force and spokesmen capable of delivering carefully crafted messages. In that regard it was lost before it even started. If we do win this time around, it will be entirely by accident.
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