Incidentally, Billericay's 90's era "maverick" MP Teresa Gorman is now a UKIP supporter. The Billericay constituency has seen some ... interesting characters in its time, so a UKIP defectee would be be par for the course.
I wonder if any ministers could fall to a surprise UKIP surge.
they've been making some interesting claims about Ed M's seat in Donny (can't remember if it's North or Central)
Eric Pickles is down the road in Brentwood, but I think that's one of the less likely seats in Essex to go mauve
IDS is in Tebbit's old seat, Chingford, where UKIP will most likely come a strong second but he's not going anywhere this time around
remembering how disastrous the LibDems decapitation strategy in 2001 was I'm not expecting anything like that, Ukip will be much better off targeting their most winnable seats regardless of who the MP is
Miliband's seat is Doncaster North, I've got family there. From what I know, UKIP
may poll strongly in areas like Bentley, but I don't think they'll topple Labour there.
