What little credibility ukip had a few days ago – and I type that with a tongue in my cheek – is now lost. Farage was on question time last night, trying to act as if he had been begged to stay as ukip leader, and by staying he was doing the right thing. What bull. Obviously one of two things must have happened: Either farage wanted to stay on as leader and engineered the ‘rejection’ of his resignation. Given that one of these pricks stabbed farage in the back he can’t be that well loved, but to hear the ‘dear leader’ speak, it was all said in the heat of the moment, and not really meant. Alternatively the party is a personality cult; a group of closet xenophobes headed by an arrogant bully lusting for power without whom the entire party would disintegrate. Thus either ukip is a personality cult around farage, or the party wanted him to go but the egotistical scumbag wouldn’t. Either way it’s absurd; it would be comic if it wasn’t so dangerous.