Analysis: Ukip Suffers Its Own 'Black Death' In The Local Elections

As political spin strategies go, comparing your party to the Black Death is certainly novel.But the claim by Ukip’s General Secretary, made as the local election results came flooding in, is very much in keeping with a party that is proud of not playing by the book.Indeed in 2014, when these council seats were last up for grabs, Ukip had something of the plague about it. Borne across England on the back of eurosceptism, the Ukip fleas attached themselves to councils such Labour-led Bolton,