UKIP loses another two...

1.56.00pm GMT Thu 11th Jan 2007

I promise I am not obsessed with UKIP, well maybe a little as I take a keen interest in anything European. This week they do seem to have got into a bit of a muddle losing some members and branches, gaining two peers and a Thatcherite academic but also seeing one of their former MEPs join the far-right grouping in the European Parliament. They also now appear to have lost two more leading members to the far-right English Democrats. What is going on at UKIP HQ?

News has reached me that two leading members of its South Essex branch - Chairman Brian Lee and treasurer Ken Bennett have joined the English Democrats. Mr. Lee said "Basically, we've had enough ... The party does not know how to organise itself."

Now I promise not to write about UKIP again this week!