WITH county council candidates dropping like flies, a large poster being vandalised in Worcester so it reads like a BNP sign, and leaflets going through doors asking people to vote on the wrong day, it’s been a torrid couple of weeks for UKIP.

Much to the joy of their political opponents, the UK Independence Party seems to have staggered from one blunder to another, and it isn’t comfortable viewing.

But The Source is starting to worry about the well-being of UKIP activist Carl Humphries, who has been growing increasingly exasperated with the ups and downs of the pre-election battleground.

Just as your Worcester News was putting Wednesday’s paper to bed he rang in an attempt to explain why recycled leaflets were put around the Chase ward, Malvern, minus the proper date date for the by-election taking place there.

Hard up for cash, they had decided to use old leaflets with a silver sticker concealing an old date of May 5 for a previous election, instead of May 2, the actual date for this one.

Now the daggers are well and truly out.

“We are great conservationists in this party and don’t want anything to be wasted,” he ranted.

“There was a sticker over the leaflets covering the date up and someone has obviously peeled it off, they are trying to make us look stupid.

“We think we know who has done it, put it that way – it’s a dirty trick.”

Someone get this man a glass of water to cool down, quick.

TALKING about the elections the two japers in the pack, Labour politicians Alan Amos and Richard Udall, have been out and about canvassing together to drum up support.

Coun Amos said: “Someone said, ‘Please take the jewellery, just don’t hurt me’, that’s the kind of reaction my colleague gets on the doorstep.”

But here’s a younger, slimmer, better looking Coun Udall, when he was two years old, in fact, from the Worcester Evening News in 1971.

Do these eyes scare you?