Tiny political parties, small-circulation publications, obscure think tanks, and so on: they often have links to certain sections of major parties, or to significant media outlets, meaning that a quarrel or a feud within one of them, or between two of them, or among several of them, can quite easily spill over into big league politics and commentary.
So it is with the vicious civil war within and around UKIP, which lies at the root of the present furore over RT. Nigel Farage and his supporters have close ties to RT, which makes it a target for his enemies, such as Douglas Carswell. Carswell has friends in, if only arguably of, the Conservative Party. And they, in turn, have friends around Boris Johnson. So here we are.
By the way, I have appeared on RT twice, and no payment was ever suggested on either occasion. I suppose that that means that I am proper politician after all.
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