Civil War Breaks Out In The Ukip Party.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3104737/Ukip-s-Douglas-Carswell-slams-Nigel-Farage-election-attack-foreign-HIV-patients.html

All in the name of equality you understand?

[Khandro]

100% agree with Farage about HIV treatment for thousands of foreign health tourists at £25,000 p.a. without having paid a penny into the NHS

[Old_Geezer]

Hmmm ... is it civil war every time a party has a little internal jostling for position/power ?

Might have been unwise to single out one group of health tourists but there is nothing mean-spirited about saying we should not be funding other countries health responsibilities, that we are not prepared to be suckers. There is "generosity" and then there is being a "soft touch".

Douglas Carswell seems to have lost the plot somewhat, according to that article.

[Svejk]

Other parties have backbench rebellions you know. ;-)

[ichkeria]

Other parties have back benches :-)

[mikey4444]

I would have thought that Farage can hardly afford to fall out with Carswell, as he is his only MP ! You could argue safey that Douglas Carswell is UKIP ! We should remember that UKIP only had 2 MPs and to lose one was rather unfortunate.

But Carswell is correct, and to give him credit where it is due, he said as much on this subject before the Election, so he is being entirely consistent now.

[sp1814]

AOG

In fairness, there has been some 'to-ing and fro-ing' amongst the UKIP leadership since the day after the election. This is war breaking out, rather it's an ongoing skirmish.

[mikey4444]

UKIP Leadership SP ? The Party has a Leader and one MP....I am not sure if a skirmish can happen with so few participants !

[bazwillrun]

"The Party has a Leader "

which is a whole lot more that can be said about your beloved labour party.....

I'll have a champagne hes drinking bitter ...still

[mikey4444]

But has UKIP got a leader ? I know Farage was the leader, then he resigned, as he said he would, after losing in his attempt to get a Westminster seat in Thanet ( This was his 6th, or 7th attempt...even Wiki is confused)

Then he became leader again !

Its like the Hokey Cokey !

[bazwillrun]

give up, its another one youve lost...

[mikey4444]

"You put your far-right leader in, you put your far-right leader out,
shake it all about, etc, etc"

[naomi24]

I think those 4 million votes worry Mikey.

[mikey4444]

But one MP....doesn't scare me one little bit !

[naomi24]

Of course one MP doesn't scare you - but the 4 million voters do.

[Svejk]

They must be doing something right. Labour are pinching all their policies.