Ukip Leader Quits After 18 Days...

[Jomlett]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ukip-leader-diane-james-resigns-latest-a7345286.html

[Jackdaw33]

Interesting. Can't wait for the details.

[Peter Pedant]

o well that frees her up to go and glad hand Donald Trump with that other ex UKIP leader

[anneasquith]

Farage is like a rash that just won't go away.

[Jomlett]

Nigel Farage has been on LBC, apparently, refusing to rule out a return!

[Jackdaw33]

I wonder if a skeleton has fallen out of the cupboard.

[agchristie]

She hadn't gone for a drink with Sam Allardyce had she?

[Jackdaw33]

BBC says she is 'expected' to stand down.

[Gromit]

// I wonder if a skeleton has fallen out of the cupboard. //

That was my first thought.
She is citing family reason for quitting.

[Zacs-Master]

Why don't they all walk round with red noses and green curly,wigs on? Couldn't be more of a laughing stock.

[Gromit]

Guido Fawkes says she told the Party at the weekend, and they thought they had persauded her to stay, but today she has reaffirmed she is quitting.

[Jackdaw33]

Cue Mikey...

[agchristie]

Mikey will be even more fearful now! He won't sleep well!

A certain 'Mr Nobody' to make another comeback?

Be AFRAID! Be very AFRAID!! :o)

[anneasquith]

Yeh, we're terrified :-)

[douglas9401]

UKIP if you want to, the lady's not for kipping.

[Peter Pedant]

// Mikey will be even more fearful now! He won't sleep well! //

yeah like that liddle kittie on the ledge
I bet THAT didnt sleep

[Gromit]

It is worth reminding ABers of this...

// Dr Forrest, who was made a CBE in 2002, had directorships at Marconi Defence Systems and the 3i venture capital firm. But as well as operating a number of businesses with Mrs James – who has talked of working in ‘healthcare’ – the Panama papers show that in 2005 Dr Forrest had a company set up in the British Virgin Islands.

He is listed as a shareholder in BVI-registered Leparin Ltd, giving as his address the holiday home he shares with Mrs James in Provence in the south of France.

The agent involved in establishing the company was the Panama law firm at the centre of the Panama papers leak in April, Mossack Fonseca.
Last night Dr Forrest and Mrs James declined to discuss Leparin. //

[Jomlett]

In a statement to the Times, Diana James says since her election "it has become clear that I do not have sufficient authority, nor the full support of all my MEP colleagues and party officers to implement changes I believe necessary and upon which I based my campaign.
"For personal and professional reasons therefore I will not take the election process further."

[naomi24]

Seconds out ..... round three! Or is it four?

Pity really. I'd quite like to see them get their act together. Nigel! Where are you?!!!

[agchristie]

It's got to be Nuttall hasn't it if Farage doesn't return?

[Jackdaw33]

My money would be on Steven Woolfe, providing he gets his nomination papers in on time.