Decline and Fall

The meteoric political career of Robert Kilroy-Silk seems to be coming unstuck. Today he has resigned the Ukip (UK Independence Party) whip in the EU Parliament.

A Ukip spokesman has (rather delightfully) said of the tanned crusader:

Last week Mr Kilroy-Silk realised there was less support for him as leader than he thought. This week he realised there was less support for him as him than he thought.

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