Patrick Mercer MP - a good resignation

[meditrina]

BBC story here

Idon'tmean what's he's done.

I mean someone who actually resigns, saying that 'you just have to fess up and get on with it" and acknowledging that he's ashamed of what he did.

What an amazing change from the usual mealy mouthed lot.

Claig …. If the public are voting for a Ukip that cannot deliver the one EU policy they CONTINUE to spin that they can (as per the leaflet that recently came through my door, "Only Ukip will take back control") yet they can’t as Ukip cannot change British law where all things EU are enshrined - either the sheer weight of Ukip spin HAS brainwashed them, or education is needed.

If not a 'protest vote' where it wouldn’t matter if Lord Haw Haw led Ukip, if policies are the issue, surely it can only be one or the other.

Oh dear, I predicted that UKIP's candidate in Newark would be Roger Helmer and today we learn that it is.

Earlier in the thread, I said

"I hope UKIP choose a woman to stand in Newark and not ex-Tory, Roger Helmer ... because even Cameron's progressives might be able to beat Helmer.

So, Helmer it will probably be."

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/roger-helmer-mep-at-centre-of-homophobia-row-unveiled-as-ukip-candidate-for-newark-byelection-9327582.html

Plus ca change