It’s hardly their worst gaffe – but it’s at least fairly amusing.
UKIP’s ‘common sense’ tour bus collided with the roof of a Portsmouth railway station this morning.
Onlookers gathered and laughed as the campaign double-decker bus slammed into the station canopy as it attempted a u-turn.
The purple bus, which had the words ‘common sense’ plastered across its side, arrived at Portsmouth and Southsea railway station to greet party leader Nigel Farage.
But the driver encountered some difficulty as the bus attempted to exit the car park. The bus would not fit under the railway platform bridge, so its driver tried to make a u-turn.
Mr Farage is visiting the Hampshire city as part of his campaign tour for the forthcoming European election.
Both the railway canopy and the bus, which only had one passenger on board, suffered minor damage.
Ukip gaffes and controversies
Ukip gaffes and controversies
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1/18 European elections poster
Party's latest EU election posters branded 'racist' and compared to BNP campaigns
Rex
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2/18 Farage 'car-crash' interview
Ukip spin doctor forced to intervene as Farage falters in disastrous radio interview
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3/18 Neil Hamilton
Picture Exclusive: The year is 1998. The venue is a Springbok Club meeting. The flag is a symbol for white supremacists in South Africa. And the speaker is Ukip’s deputy chairman, Neil Hamilton
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4/18 Kerry Smith
Kerry Smith resigned as would-be MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock after it emerged he had mocked gay party members as “disgusting poofters”, joked about shooting people from Chigwell in a “peasant hunt” and referred to someone with a Chinese name as a “Chinky bird”
PA
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5/18 Natasha Bolter
Former Ukip member Natasha Bolter was suspected of not having the teaching qualifications she professed to, only days after it was revealed that claims of her having attended Oxford University were also false
PA
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6/18 Ukip Calypso song
Mike Reid released a single in praise of UKIP trying to control the UK's borders, only to withdraw the single after being accused of racism for singing in a Jamaican accent
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7/18 Janice Atkinson
Janice Atkinson, Ukip's South East chair, pictured by protesters while campaigning in Ashford, Kent with local party chair Norman Taylor
Facebook/Maria Pizzey
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8/18 Ukip cancels Freephone
Ukip cancels Freephone number after protesters repeatedly called to push up costs
Getty Images
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9/18 Farage 'car-crash' interview
Mr Farage appeared to be caught out on a number of issues, from Romanian neighbours to people speaking foreign languages on the train
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10/18 Ukip employs illegal immigrants
Ukip criticised after European election candidate found employing illegal immigrants
AP
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11/18 Magnus Nielsen
Ukip candidate: 'Take away the right to vote to improve election turnout'
Getty Images
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12/18 Poster model
A “British builder” portrayed in a Ukip poster accusing EU workers of taking UK jobs turns out to be an Irish actor - aka a migrant worker
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13/18 'Arrest protesters'
Ukip called for police to arrest protesters ‘who call us fascists’ ahead of showdown with anti-fascist groups in Brighton
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14/18 London Live make-up
Ukip's Nigel Farage reportedly refused to go on London Live 'without professional make up-artist'
Reuters
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15/18 Andre Lampitt
Ukip forced to suspend the "poster boy" of its European election broadcast, after it was revealed he had posted a series of vile racist comments on Twitter
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16/18 Expenses
Nigel Farage says he is taking taking legal advice over “outrageous” allegations that he is responsible for more than £50,000 of “missing” EU funding that was paid directly into his personal bank account
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17/18 Have I Got News For You
Nigel Farage appears in Have I Got News For You, spends the entire episode being ridiculed over expenses and party 'fruitcakes'
BBC
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18/18 Anti-gay comments
Local branch chairman for Ukip defends a party's councillor candidate Douglas Denny who called gay people “abnormal” and said he wished “they stop trying to ram it down my throat”, all while discussing whether the word “sodomite” should be used
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