Nigel Farage has hit out the "Walter Mittys" in UKIP who are letting the party down, saying he will not tolerate any more embarrassment.
Mr Farage told The Times that in the past UKIP had "got it wrong" with people who turned out to be "disappointments".
"It's very natural that a newish party will attract all sorts of people," he said.
The UKIP leader said the party has not been successful in screening out the "Walter Mittys seeking a role in politics which, in the end, they will let down not just us but themselves with".
The fictional character, from the short story The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty and played by actor Ben Stiller in a 2013 version of the film, is generally incompetent as he indulges in daydreams of personal triumphs.
David Silvester was suspended from UKIP Mr Farage told the newspaper there would now be day-long assessments for potential candidates, admitting that the party has had a "struggle with talent in the early days".
He said it was "not just about the odd barmy opinion - it's really to try and work out whether these are reliable, steady, solid people".
"We must together be campaigning on similar issues," he said.
"I need us to have disciplined election machine."
But he said he did not want the party to become "a new Labour outfit".
Mr Farage has already said he would be purging extreme candidates from UKIP ahead of European and Local elections in May.
He has cut loose five MEPs from his line-up for the European and town hall elections, and the party is vetting all 1,818 candidates to make sure they do not have "extremist, barmy or nasty" views.
The clampdown was launched after MEP Godfrey Bloom caused widespread embarrassment when he branded African countries "Bongo Bongo Land" last year.
There has also been more recent controversy as a UKIP councillor for Henley-on-Thames claimed recent floods were due to the Prime Minister ignoring his warnings on legalising same-sex marriage.
UKIP suspended David Silvester, who defected to the party from the Conservatives in 2012 over the issue, after he made the comments to his local newspaper the Henley Standard earlier this month.
Last week, Mr Farage disowned the party's entire general election manifesto - which he helped launch - branding it "drivel".
He is understood to have fallen out with the main author of the manifesto, MEP David Bannerman, who has now rejoined the Conservative Party.
The 2010 manifesto, which Mr Farage co-signed the foreword to, has disappeared from the UKIP website archive.
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