Leave donor plans new party to replace Ukip – possibly without Farage in charge

The Brexit campaign’s biggest financial donor has said he is considering backing a new political party taking in members of Ukip, Labour and the Conservatives.

In a sign that the referendum aftershocks already rocking the Conservative and Labour parties could be spreading to Ukip, the insurance multi-millionaire and Ukip funder Arron Banks criticised the party’s growth and proposed harnessing Brexit support in a new party. When asked if Farage would be in charge, he said the Ukip leader “may have had enough”.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/leave-donor-plans-new-party-to-replace-ukip-without-farage

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

16. Strong "Shock Doctrine" vibes from this, especially his view it's an "opportunity"

Reply to TubbersUK (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 12:50 PM

Jul 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/29/leave-donor-plans-new-party-to-replace-ukip-without-farage

“I think Ukip needs to be reformed root and branch and we will be looking at that,” said Banks. “With a million supporters there’s also a wonderful opportunity if we want to do something, to back something. I think a new party, a brand new party.”

“Ukip grew so rapidly it had problems with personnel and all sorts of issues and I believe that could be better tackled with a new party,” he said.

The Bristol-based founder of GoSkippy and Southern Rock insurance is the largest donor to Farage’s party and, in what is thought to be the biggest ever single donation to a UK political cause, spent £5.6m of his personal fortune funding the Ukip-backed Leave.EU campaign.

“I think we have a good shot at taking over from Labour as the opposition because Labour are imploding and Labour voters for the first time ever have defied their party, voting for leave,” Banks said on Wednesday.

TubbersUK

(1,439 posts)

17. Yes, I'm getting a whiff of that too n/t

Reply to suffragette (Reply #16)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 01:34 PM

Jul 2016

BainsBane

(53,032 posts)

3. Wow, not a good time to be a politician in the UK.

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Mon Jul 4, 2016, 05:51 AM

Jul 2016

malaise

(269,022 posts)

4. Theresa May will win the leadership of the Cons

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 05:52 AM

Jul 2016

She'll be the next PM. After that I can see two thirds of MPs calling for a new election.

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

6. She's a peach.

Reply to malaise (Reply #4)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 06:15 AM

Jul 2016

They have made a hot mess.

malaise

(269,022 posts)

9. And it is a hot mess

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #6)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 10:14 AM

Jul 2016

with more mess coming

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

11. You mean, someone who deserves to be impeached...

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #6)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 10:17 AM

Jul 2016

and the dreadful thing is that she's probably the best of any likely possibilities at the moment.

At least, unless Labour stops its circular firing squad and actually starts acting like an Opposition.

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

14. Yes. I was being sarcastic.

Reply to LeftishBrit (Reply #11)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 11:39 AM

Jul 2016

All of the political parties over there appear to be a mess. Just an observation fom across the pond.
I live in Sourh Carolina and we have ZERO leadership.

LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

18. I've never known it as crazy as this...

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Reply #14)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 01:38 PM

Jul 2016

and I've known it to be pretty crazy at times, but not with all the parties imploding at once! Not to mention the pound imploding too; and worst of all, certain nutters thinking that the referendum is giving them licence to commit hate crimes!

What a bloody mess it all is.

South Carolina? - isn't that where the governor ran off to Argentina with his soulmate? And where Strom Thurmond kept getting elected until he was 100? Yes, I suppose we've all got our political lunacies.