Nigel Farage needs Thanet much more than Thanet needs Nigel Farage

All politics is local politics, and as Farage toys with voters on the Kent coast, they there are starting to realise his attention is not on themIf only people would stay in the boxes we put them in, how much easier it would be to call this election. I am talking to Alison, who says: “I am veering towards Ukip. Well, some days.”We are in Broadstairs, in South Thanet, where Farage is standing and I have met a good few “Alisons” – decent people who are veering towards Ukip. I wish I coul