UKIP and Green Party (of England and Wales) leadership elections, 2016

[Slow Learner]

This has been a strange year.

really? I think this is a perfectly normal year, without any strange happenings whatsoever.

Ha! Chancellor Balls just made a silly tweet!

Why was Osborne even calling for an EU referendum? What a stupid idea! What's next? The SNP capturing a majority of Scottish seats at the next GE?

[parochial boy]

Ahahaha I probably shouldn't be laughing but that is just funny.

Well, it is until you remember just how much damage UKIP have done

[Phony Moderate]

Ahahaha I probably shouldn't be laughing but that is just funny.

Well, it is until you remember just how much damage UKIP have done

I suspect Remain would have won if UKIP had played a bigger role in the campaign (as in if Farage had been made the official Leave leader etc).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I mean that's not a suspicion but a certainty.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

So I just saw that UKIP is having another leadership election in six months. Wow.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE of the meeting of UKIPs MEPs...

[parochial boy]

Ahahaha I probably shouldn't be laughing but that is just funny.

Well, it is until you remember just how much damage UKIP have done

I suspect Remain would have won if UKIP had played a bigger role in the campaign (as in if Farage had been made the official Leave leader etc).

Maybe in the campaign, but in as far as making the issue mainstream, and in linking it to immigration, they played a major role.

Cameron would never have promised a referendum if not for the UKIP factor in the run up to 2015

[Phony Moderate]

Woolfe has both withdrawn from the leadership race and resigned from the party. That leaves the following four political heavyweights:

Andrew Beadle - Candidate in the very UKIP-friendly Bermondsey and Old Southwark in 2015.
Bill Etheridge - Candidate in Dudley North in 2015; posted a picture on Facebook of himself next to golliwogs to make a point about political correctness; praised Hitler in a UKIP youth wing seminar
Raheem Kassam - Editor of Breitbart London
Peter Whittle - UKIP leader in the London Assembly and their candidate for Mayor this year. Openly gay.

[Blair]

Surely Aaron Banks will pull the mat out under UKIP and finish the party off

[Lumine]

I bet Carswell is kicking himself for defecting from the Conservatives considering all that's happened since.

[joevsimp]

I bet Carswell is kicking himself for defecting from the Conservatives considering all that's happened since.

No I think he still credits himself for starting the ball rolling by winning the By-election that he forced, although Ukip probably could've won Heyward and Middleton if their resources hadn't been split, which probably would've been a bigger scalp than Clacton.

It will depend on which faction comes out on top after this, but I doubt it will be the libertarians like Carswell

[Phony Moderate]

Result of the UKIP 2016 leadership election 2.0 was announced a couple of days ago:

Paul Nuttall - 9,622 votes/62.6%
Suzanne Evans - 2,973 votes/19.3%
John Rees-Evans - 2,775 votes/18.1%

Nuttall (like Diane James and Steven Woolfe - both of whom have now quit the party) was essentially the Faragist continuity candidate.