Ukip opponents have hit out against the party by smashing the window of its Folkestone town centre headquarters.

Vandals targeted the office of the Folkestone and Hythe branch in West Terrace on Sunday with a hole appearing in the window.

The office was opened by ex-parliamentary candidate Janice Atkinson as her pop-up shop for the campaign in the lead up to the general election on May 7.

But Ms Atkinson was expelled from the party last month in a high profile dismissal over an expenses scandal during the party’s conference in Margate earlier this year.

Her replacement, the former Labour group leader on Ashford Borough Council Harriet Yeo, was announced by leader Nigel Farage at The Grand the following day.

Mr Farage has not avoided the scrutiny either. A poster in Blackbull Road has been daubed with a graffiti moustache in the same style worn by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

The vandals then added a line referring to a comment made by Moe from The Simpsons during an episode in which Springfield's mayor blames high taxes on "illegal immigrants" to a protesting mob over raising taxes to create a 'bear patrol' following a series of bear attacks on the town.

In response barman Moe Szyslak says: "Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them."

It is not the first time the party’s posters have been publicly shunned and have been the target of graffiti in the road.

In the lead up to the European elections last May, Ukip’s campaign posters were also targeted.

One of the party’s slogans suggesting EU laws hit British workers with “unlimited cheap labour” was covered with the adage that Ukip’s policy would instead have the effect of “keeping low paid jobs for British workers”.

Another two of the party’s posters in Tontine Street and Grace Hill were also splashed with alternative slogans damning the party’s take on Britain’s membership within the European Union.