Leader quits after 18 days. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37558485

I heard she was spat at.

And Farage is back again. What a joke this party is!

Makes you wonder why they don't do better in our local pantomime; presumably because we have bigger comedians

Call me Nige is back! Yippee!

You are like a big kid Je suits Charlie!

Still, he is like a child's Christmas present, great at the time, but in a day or two the batteries are flag and the wheels have come off.

He's only there for a few weeks whilst another election takes place

Marmite Nige has changed the whole Country. Love him or hate him he is one of the most interesting and important politicians of the last 40 years.

Arguably he has divided the country. Well, that's how I see it. He's a bit of a joke really, with his Union Jack shoes.

That is very true TDH.
He and his party are certainly not a "joke".
If they were we would not have seen the momentous changes that have and will occur since that vote in June.
A vote which would not have happened without Nigel and his "joke" party.
However, now that this has been achieved I am also unsure what the party now stands for.

That's the nub of it. Without taking anything away from what he's done, he (or rather his party activists) have fallen into the classic trap - what comes next?

Bear in mind we have no independence yet, and our mate Nige doesn't seem interested in being politically a part of its isolation; if we ever get there. Legally the referendum means nothing. If he is to claim a victory it is now he needs to be there brow beating the government and holding it to account in the negotiations.

Certainly what they have "accomplished" is no joke. And UKIP are no joke, but he is. He could just as easily be a nutty Bavarian in Lederhosen if he was German. He's a caricature.

I think your argument is the wrong way round. Nigel is the only sentient being in the party. The party is a joke without him.

The party management is chaotic but there are plenty of normal people in the rank and file, my major concern is that the views made normal by Farage and the success of the party were hitherto unacceptably intolerant and only voiced publicly by the National Front. UKIP may well continue as the new National Front but the Tories under May have pretty much stolen their clothes. May is positioning the Tory Party as the party of the working class right because she wants their votes though I don't really see the local Conservative Clubs being quite so welcoming when the white vans start parking in the car park and the new members expect to get in without a blazer, so I can see UKIP lingering as a local party of the far right and working nationally as a far-right pressure group influencing the Tories.

At least UKIP don't want to strip Britain naked then, humiliated and penniless, present us trussed up like a turkey on Christmas morning to the Russian paymaster. So on balance I'll take UKIP over labour thank you!

Is that in the manifesto then?

I think he read it in the "hi, its Jeremy and this is momentum" party handbook. Otherwise known as 'how to hate Britain and get away with it!

No, it's to an Indian, Arab, American, French or China one instead.


Neither are suitable in my view.

Better dead than red

Oh, I don't know Charlie, life in the tractor factory wasn't too bad, we always had a job and whatever overtime we needed. Three weeks paid on the Black Sea every year, a reasonable flat, all repairs included. Free top rate health care, glasses, teeth, the lot, kids at university for nothing, plus a gaurenteed pension. I'm not sure us peasants did that well when the wall came down Charlie, sure, we couldn't criticise the Government, but that don't get you lot do far do it?

Well everything is rosy in the UKIP garden then.... I guess Hookem couldn't be bothered to send Woolfe a card for his birthday..... if it's not imploding it seems to be doing something that makes it look like it's imploding...

Yeah, and cheap vodka an potato soup. O, and purges, don't forget the purges. And the secret police, can't leave them out.

Why "accomplished" in quotes?
I didn't use that word!
Did anyone else?

As nice as your lager and kebabs. Of course, we in the UK tolerate dissidents don't we and our Police have always been lily white....umm.

Sorry......duplicate post, system very slow because MinIstry of Truth's agency (Google) is copying my output!

A bit like the Labour party; in fighting, and that is all it is. Who ever comes out on top must makes sure that it has the policies to go forward and take it in the right direction.

He is only back until they elect a new leader.

Ah, but, ah, right, as you were then, as you were.

I have come to think of 'our Nige' as the steadying hand on the tiller that prevents the total capsize of the UKIP dinghy.

No end to the drama as Woolfe is lamped at a UKIP party meeting and taken to hospital. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37572377

"UKIP sources said "a rumbustious argument" had taken place at the MEPs' meeting at the European Parliament over whether Mr Woolfe had been talking to the Conservative Party. "Even the possibility of him talking to the Tory Party some saw as a betrayal and some MEPs were very angry," the sources said."

Brilliant!

According to him - their national executive appear more than a little peeved that he has decided to elect himself as king for another few months.

Apparently Woolfe reports feeling numb on his left side, though I figure that's normal for UKIP.

Bunch of knuckle draggers!


Who is Mike Hookem?

The Yorkshireman is UKIP’s defence spokesman and running to be deputy leader.
He has said previously he see his role as appealing to working class voters, trying to attract votes from Labour.

He joined UKIP in 2008 after a career in the Armed Forces.

I can't say I'm surprised and backs up the belief that they are not very different to BNP/NF. Some see Farage as an acceptable face but I think he's hateful and unpleasant.

Are you not aware of the interim UKIP Leader's links with Russia?

Unlike you.

"Since then, six Ukip’s MEPs have made appearances on Russia Today, with Farage making almost monthly appearances on the state sponsored news channel. "

Don't forget his supposed support for Donald on the right. Just to add balance like.

Thank you.

So for balance he is a Trump supporter?

"You can judge a man by the company he keeps".

Bit like Corbyn then!

Quite, except your arguments against Corbyn exist in ones you do support.

As usual, they all follow Labour's lead eventually! Lord Prescott taught his constituents well.

People across the board have been hoping that he (Woolfe) gets well, even though they don't agree with is politics. Even Labour's outcasts hope he gets better, but what do we get from a Corbynites? Jokes. With Corbyn's anti Jewish comments, attacks on their own Labour MP... Theresa May got it right when she said that Corbyn's Labour party is the "nasty party". Corbyn and his group are just a bunch of thugs. If that was a Corbyn Labour MP I would wish him well, not make jokes.

I apologise if my quip was insensitive.

We don't discriminate in England do we? Proud of that we are, that's why we fight wars....

Umm

See page 4 - NWN this week

Allotments open to all

Last paragraph says it all The Council says it reserves the right to exclude requests to be added to the allotment waiting list and/or refuse people to enter into allotment tenancy agreement.

Presumably, space was too short to add the reasons why and Google is similarly silent.

May's "nasty party" comment drew laugh's from the audience accompanied with a smirk from her.

Define "smirk"? And she is right, the Labour party has now become the "nasty" party. And all this has started when Corbyn took power and Monment infiltrated themselves within the party.

Do we really need to, when all that is needed is a dictionary?