Nigel Farage loyalists hit back
Arron Banks, the Ukip donor has hit out at election campaign manager Patrick O’Flynn for calling Nigel Farage “snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive” and launching a “coup d’etat”. He Mr Farage should instead be having a nice rest after a long election.
“The truth is that Carswell got 25,000 votes but Nigel got four million. The rank and file members know that. Nigel got 99.6 per cent of the total votes to Carswell’s 0.4 per cent.
“Patrick needs to look at himself before he goes around criticising others. They should let Nigel have a holiday after a long hard election rather than plotting a coup d’état.”
Meanwhile Stuart Wheeler, former Ukip treasurer, has been on the World at One to suggest that Douglas Carswell would make a better leader than Nigel Farage.