Yorkshire Tea Party?

The Thirsk & Malton contest has been delayed precisely because the UKIP candidate died, so that party will certainly put up another one. Is it possible for the Liberal Party to contest this, too?

That would give Tories and Liberals in their traditional rural battlefields the chance to express their views on the coalition. Vote Yes by voting Conservative or Lib Dem. Vote No by voting UKIP or Liberal.

But then, not all UKIP voters, rather than by far the bulk of its activists, are Tories. At European Elections, which is when UKIP does best, only about half of them are. In which case, how about making the UKIP candidate the only candidate (other than the Labour one, who hardly counts there) of dissent?

Something that had subsumed UKIP would have, by the way, the potential to exercise a role in Britain under the Alternative Vote very similar to that exercised in Australia under the Alternative Vote by the National Party.