Deal With It

By far the most interesting thing about Nigel Farage's Guardian interview is that he describes a UKIP deal with Labour as more likely than a UKIP deal with the Conservatives. Watch that space.

Labour would have won the 2015 Election very comfortably in any case, and at this stage in its history it would in any case have offered an In-Out referendum (that commitment is in the bag, as it is from the Lib Dems, leaving only the other lot), as well as proposals for significant repatriation of powers by primary legislation at Westminster, with no need for "renegotiation".

Labour was never very pro-EU, anyway. That it was is the sort of weird fantasy believed by people who think that the Conservative Party has ever not been. Bringing us to UKIP, which well before 2015 will have exploded between the Old Right and the New Right, both of which believe that it was created especially by and for themselves and nobody else.

For example, the Thatcherism In Exile lot cannot campaign against the cuts in rural services. Nor could those who wanted a British Tea Party oppose participation in an Israeli war against Iran. Of course, on both points, there is a party which can, and which will, and which already does.