Memo to Nigel: I don’t think the journalists who have been dragged to Gloucestershire will be impressed. You should always under promise and over deliver.

UKIP's new donor's now giving £1m, not the £100k he originally planned. "Thank you very much," says Nigel Farage. https://t.co/PBw0hMRjZ3

— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 1, 2014

Aaron Banks suggests he's giving UKIP 10 times as much as planned because Tories were rude about him

— Ross Hawkins (@rosschawkins) October 1, 2014

The hacks will be really p*ssed off at being taken to Bristol for that #ukip

— Tim Montgomerie (@TimMontgomerie) October 1, 2014

I am afraid UKIP have just made complete arses of themselves. Idiots to raise expectations in media of a big defection. Utter idiocy,

— Iain Dale (@IainDale) October 1, 2014

No new defections. The UKIP bandwagon has ground to a halt.

— Mark Ferguson (@Markfergusonuk) October 1, 2014

The irony is that a £1m donation to UKIP could be a strong story – but having raised defection expectation, they've undermined it

— Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) October 1, 2014

In political comms you work hard to be helpful and interesting – dragging tired journos hundreds of miles only to under-deliver not good

— Mark Wallace (@wallaceme) October 1, 2014

I wonder if there was a CON MPs defector lined up but at the last minute she/he got cold feet.

— Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 1, 2014

 

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