Alan Sked founder of UKIP to launch new party

Photo: By The Sewell-Hohler Syndicate

It seems the decision  of the new UKIP leader Gerard Batten to employ the controversial figure Tommy Robinson has caused not just a handful of UKIP MEP's to quit and bring Nigel Farage back (again) to act as the "white Knight" to try and sane UKIP.

Normally I wouldn't read much of the news about Brexit (bored with it to be frank) but glanced at a letter in The Daily Telegraph and noticed it was from the founder of UKIP, Professor Alan Sked who wrote:

As the founder of UKIP, I can now only conclude that the party has lost it's way and should now dissolve itself.

His reasoning  being that Gerard Batten is "obsessed" with Islam which he condemns as a "death cult" and is joining up with the forces of the far right (that is Tommy Robinson).

Certainly Batten has been seen on marches organised by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance  (DFLA) which may attract the far right but isn't itself a fascist formation but more the creation of a backlash by the white working class who feel alienated by the current political establishment.

However Nigel Farage attract's the professors ire as he points out:

... is hardly in a position to criticise him. He (Farage) wanted to run former National Front candidates as UKIP ones in the 1979 general election (a request which as party leader I rejected)...

Professor Sked concludes by informing us that he is in the process of forming a "Democratic, non-racist" Brexit party.

Another one to add to the growing list of minor parties springing up all over the place.