Ukip Members Voted To Sack Embattled Leader Henry Bolton

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43098646

Is there anybody that is even slightly surprised by this ?

[mikey4444]

Togo...Farage...make a comeback ? .....as what this time ?

[ToraToraTora]

"TTT...all UKIP did was to scare just-call-me-dave into having the Referendum. " - by jove I think he's got it! Yes of course fear of what UKIP would do to him forced his hand and that was because of their support, that's how it works mikey!

[-Talbot-]

mikey4444

Don't let people dictate what you can and cannot post about




Quite right, sp.
Although it does make Mikey's political animal claims look rather silly when he constantly ignores awkward threads.

[Togo]

//and fire up the afterburners for the Brexit lift off//

It was in there Mikey. Just tread every post, as slack jawed as you do, every Beep Beep See "spoiler". Haha.

[ichkeria]

And in any case it wasn’t UKIP who ‘achieved’ Brexit. Political parties achieve things by being elected to power and doing things. UKIP have never been remotely close to power. They have seen their main ambition close to being achieved its true and by that token they ought to at least be the happiest party if nothing else, but they appear to be anything but :-)

[ToraToraTora]

ich read what I wrote at 18:39, they force Dave into the referendum but being popular enough, that's politics in action. Dave thought remain would win and it would be put to bed for a generation, oh dear!

[ToraToraTora]

...they forced Dave into the referendum by being popular enough.. doh!

[THECORBYLOON]

You and Farage both thought the vote would go the other way so I wouldn't gloat if I were you!

[ichkeria]

No they didn’t tora. Cameron called his referendum to try and make peace in the tory party. UKIP only mattered very peripherally in that regard.

[fiveleaves]

Has there ever been a worse party leader?
To describe UKIP as utterly pathetic is to seriously understate the manner.
What is the point of them?
They are about the UK leaving the EU which we are doing anyway

[ToraToraTora]

yes TCL like Dave I though remain would win I've made no secret of that or my delight that the country saw sense. Ich Dave would not have risked a vote just to deal with Tory divisions, they've been split on Europe forever. UKIP's 12.6% vote in 2015 scared him into trying to put the issue to bed, as we know, that back fired on him.

[mikey4444]

There used to be a real dive of a Pub at the end of Wind Street, here in Swansea, called The Borough Arms. The place was irredeemably dirty, and stank, the glasses were hardly ever cleaned, the beer was 'orrible, and it attracted the worst type of clientele.

If the Police were trying to find someone, The Borough was the first place they looked. My Dad told me never to darken its door, but I did, just the once and everything I had ever heard about it was true.

Up the road, there was a much better Pub, The Adelphie, which was owned by my Dads Best Man. I asked him once why the Feds ever allowed the Borough to exist and why didn't they close it down.

He looked horrified at the prospect of the Borough closing and when I asked him why, he said that he was afraid that all those reprobates that hung out down the road at The Borough would end up in his Pub !

That is essentially the role that UKIP fills....its a place that the real loony-tunes and racists can go and hide. All the other proper political Party's can breath a sigh of relief.

[ToraToraTora]

yeah fair enough mikey but their pub darts team beat the favourites in the last match!

[ichkeria]

But risk it he did tora because as you say yourself he was very sure he’d win. Osborne saw the dangers and was dead against a referendum.

[ToraToraTora]

TBH ich I was gobsmacked remain lost. My view has always been the same on the EU but I knew that remain should win what with all the major parties and most of the press backing it. Dave probably thought it was and Arsenal v Accrington Stanley situation I know I did at the outset.

[THECORBYLOON]

MIKEY, should you not have put a Spoiler Alert up?

[mikey4444]

lol Corby !

[andy-hughes]

UKIP persist in torpedoing whatever lingering credibility they may cling to by showing their inability to keep a leader in place for longer than five minutes.

The current incumbent hangs grimly on to a powerless position despite being shown to have the personal morals of an ally-cat and the political savvy of a paper-clip.

They should quit while they are behind.

[Spicerack]

I drank in the Boroughs. Nice lively place full of gypsies and Irish lads.
And I vote UKIP. Although I must admit, they need to sort themselves out.
Call me Dave was trying to be clever. Promised a referendum if the Tories won. But, if you remember, the best result they could hope for at that time was another coalition with the Liberals. And, of course the Liberals would have vetoed it.
I bet when it dawned on him they had an outright victory and the consequences that would bring he felt a bit queasy.

[Jackdaw33]

I could not contain my glee when I saw that Dave was well and truly stuffed. The whole exercise restored my faith in democracy.