The former leader of UKIP, which has its HQ in Newton Abbot, Nigel Farage, has predicted the future of politics.
He exclusively told the Western Morning News: “I don’t think Tory high command will like to see me on the backbenches, mingling with some of their number. That’s not a sight they’d want.”
Eeugh, it’s not a sight anyone would want.
The damp squib of an ‘exclusive’ tells us that Farage will stand against speaker John Berkow in the next General Election (we know); that the Irish referendum came out in favour of a the Lisbon treaty (we know); and that once in the House of Commons, Nigel will canvass for a referendum on membership to the EU (like duh).
“If I get into Parliament,” said the stary-eyed Farage, “what I will try to do is get together with MPs from the Conservatives and… there will be Labour people I would talk to.”
How magnanimous.
The South West has two MEPs who sit in the European of Freedom and Democracy Group: Trevor Colman and William (the Earl of) Dartmouth.
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Gosh, I didn’t realise the WMN covered history. To claim an exclusive when we knew that Herr Farage was standing against the Speaker in early September and we knew the Irish vote on Lisbon about a week ago must be some form of to recycling.