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Bloom thrown out of EP Plenary for refusing to apologise...
Check out the BBC on G. Bloom's latest antics in Strasbourg: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11828319...
Farage the Messiah: the second coming!
Farage’s supporters hail his return as UKIP leader in their customary moderate underplayed tones:“It’s the second coming of the newly re-elected leader of UKIP, plane crash survivor, death cheater Nigel Farage! Could his survival be the hand o...
UKIP to blunfrt into Northern Ireland
UKIP has announced that it intends to put up candidates in Northern Ireland, contesting 7 seats in the Stormont elections in May next year.UKIP's policy of replacing the 108 Northern Ireland Assembly Members with 18 dual mandate Westminster MPs would...
Telegraph interview with Farage can't hide his more sinister sides
To mark his re-election as leader of UKIP, the Eurosceptic Daily Telegraph accords Farage a lengthy interview in today’s Telegraph. However, such a long chat inevitably revealed more than was intended.‘The internal squabbling can be very tiresome...
UKIP MEPs trade insults as one of them takes UKIP to court
17 NovemberAn investigation is to be launched after squabbling UKIP MEPs traded insults in Parliament, according to Parliament Magazine.According to the article, Godfrey Bloom called Nikki Sinclaire a ‘queer’. She says she was so "shocked" by the...
Feuding UKIPPERs set up new blogs
It seems to be a common trend among disaffected UKIP members to set up blogs to moan/reveal/complain about its internal shenanigans.What appears to be a new one, “Everything about UKIP” focuses on Nigel Farage’s working method of getting his c...
Norman Tebbit lambasts Farage
A damning article on Nigel Farage by Norman Tebbitt, soul mates on substance, but not, it would appear, close buddies.UKIPwatcher...
More expenses trouble
Yet another renegade UKIP MEP in trouble over expenses!With their track record as the only political party to have had two of of the people they sent to parliament actually sent to jail for financial impropriety, one would have thought they would hav...
Not a serious party!
As reported in the Western Morning News (4 September 2010) David Campbell Bannerman MEP, UKIP’s Deputy Leader, let slip at their party conference that UKIP is just not serious. The thrust of his keynote speech to UK conference was that UKIP must st...
New Head of Press for UKIP?
The Guardian is advertising for a £75-£85,000-a-year head of press for an “established” UK political party, and applicants are invited to apply to William Dartmouth. Dartmouth is a UKIP MEP, so one can only assume UKIP is looking for a new spin...
Lord Pearson resigns
Controversial UKIP leader, Lord Pearson has resigned, saying he “wasn’t much good at party politics”.Was he always a stand-in while Farage pursued his failed attempt to unseat Bercow?And just to remind us over the summer that UKIP is a party of...
A short life as a UKIP member
Adam Brown has had a short life as a member of UKIP and now he is to stand down as a councillor when his term ends. Elected to Merthyr Tydfil Council in 2008 as an independent, he joined UKIP last year. He got into trouble by posting on an internet...
A short life as a UKIP member
Adam Brown has had a short life as a member of UKIP and now he is to stand down as a councillor when his term ends. Elected to Merthyr Tydfil Council in 2008 as an independent, he joined UKIP last year. He got into trouble by posting on an internet...
Lord Pearson backs the Conservatives
Lord Pearson, leader of UKIP, has written to a newspaper group in Somerset urging voters to support the Conservatives rather than his party's candidates. As previously reported, one of his candidates, Jake Baynes, refused to stand down when asked by...
The candidate who refuses to stand down
More ructions within UKIP, whose candidate in Wells, Jake Baynes, has refused to obey the the instructions of his party leader and stand down in the general election to help Conservative Euro-sceptic David Heathcoat-AmoryUKIP leader Lord Pearson, who...
Others watch Ukip too....
Good to see that other blogs are picking up on UKIP sleaze: see a good account on leftfootforward (see April 6th 2010 at 5:07 pm.)Ukipwatcher...
You really can't make it up!
Paul Wiffen, Ukip's parliamentary candidate and Redbridge council hopeful has quit after making racist comments about The Queen, just days after sparking controversy for previous remarks about Muslims and Romanian gypsies.Paul Wiffen, who was standin...
