A Ukip candidate had to be rescued from high tides at the party 's annual spring conference after writing a note on the beach proclaiming his love for leader Nigel Farage . Sam Gould , 31 , the party 's Caerphilly candidate , was pictured being hauled out of the water onto a breakwater by press officer Gawain Towler when he became trapped after jumping a wall to scrawl the doting message in the sand . The debacle began after he hastily jumped down onto the beach early Saturday morning to write a response to protesters . After jumping down onto the sand to write the message , Caerphilly Ukip candidate Sam Gould realised he was trapped by the tide . Press officer Gawain Towler ( right ) then intervened to help pull him up a seaweed-covered breakwater . With Mr Towler 's help , he managed to avoid getting wet - although the press officer said lifting him 'was n't the easiest ' Mr Gould poses beside his message in the sand at Margate which reads 'We love Nige ' The message was written on the beach on Saturday at Margate during the party 's annual spring conference . Mr Towler told MailOnline that Mr Gould - 'the enterprising chap that he is ' - decided to scrawl the message in the sand in response to messages left on the beach by protesters the previous day . 'Basically it was about 7.30 in the morning and the previous day some Green activists had scribbled some rude stuff in the beach . Ukip leader Nigel Farage was said to be amused when he saw the message and heard about his candidate 's struggle to get off the beach . ' I knew nothing of this and I was pottering around the conference hall and I saw the snappers take off looking purposeful . ' Following the commotion , he stumbled across Mr Gould hurriedly scrawling the message in the sand . But it was after he finished writing the note and proudly posing for photographs that he found himself in trouble . Mr Towler added : 'Basically , he 'd gone down and did n't realise there was no exit because the tide was too far in , so I helped him out . 'It was actually quite hard because that whole breakwater that I pulled him up from - top to bottom - was covered in seaweed . It was n't the easiest yank I 've done . ' However , he did say party leader Nigel Farage managed to see the amusing side of the debacle . 'He just smiled at it . He was n't there at the time , he arrived a bit later and he saw the scribble on the beach and just laughed . ' Mr Gould told Wales Online : ' I jumped the wall - it was about six to seven feet high - and wrote a message myself in the sand , which said `` We love Ukip '' and then `` We Love Nige '' . ' 'There were no stairs so I got stuck , hence the photo which is quite amazing . '
Ukip candidate Sam Gould , 31 , wrote 'We love Nige ' in the sand at Margate . He scrawled it in response to messages left by protesters the previous day . But he misjudged tides and found himself trapped after posing for photos . Party press officer had to intervene and help pull him up onto breakwater .