An anti-Islam campaigner vies to lead Britain's populist right-wing party

Anne Marie Waters finds UKIP a new targetEVEN by the Technicolor standards of the UK Independence Party, the crop of candidates jostling to lead it are a lively bunch. One front-runner in the contest, which will reach its climax at UKIP's party conference next month, is best known for claiming that a homosexual donkey 'tried to rape my horse'. Another complains that Frankfurt School Cultural Marxism is the greatest threat to Britain, along with the European Union and radical Islamism. UKIP's sole Scottish MEP has said that he is entering the contest to stop the 'entryists, dilettantes and single-issue loonies'.These are just three of the 11 candidates who are fighting in a contest which, the last time the party held one, just nine months ago, attracted barely 15,000 votes from UKIP's dwindling membership. It is a democratic demolition derby, in which there are no run-offs: whoever gets most votes in the first round wins. Their prize' A chance to...Continue reading
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