UKIP can’t buy an election victory at the moment. Scrapbook reported last week how leader Paul Nuttall lost the Stoke Central by-election despite spending £10,000 more than any other candidate.

But now the Kippers have an even bigger problem – they can’t even correctly register to run in an election.

UKIP were hoping to take their third seat in the 5 member north ward of Haverhill Town Council in a by-election.

Instead their hopeful has been automatically disqualified because they filled out the registration form incorrectly.

The Cambridge News reports that the would-be candidate invalidated their form by writing UKIP, rather than the party’s full name: UK Independence Party.

It meant that, as the only candidate, Labour’s Liz Smith was automatically elected.

The blunder comes in the same week that:

A UKIP councillor in Somerset claimed the NHS was wasting money on LGBT services

A UKIP councillor in Hartlepool, who works as a tanker driver, appeared in court charged with drink driving

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall gave Nigel Farage his 110% support to contest the South Thanet seat again

You’ve got to be in it to win it…