'My bet is he'll withdraw'
I hope he turns up and comes out fighting. Without Farage, UKIP is finished.
Notice that the media have only been showing us millionaire Stuart Wheeler who wants Farage to go They haven't put millionaire Arron Banks on TV who supports Farage.
Arron Banks is very good and spot on. He is common sense, UKIP. We want people who are UKIP through and through, not politically correct ex-Tories.
"Exclusive: Ukip donor Arron Banks calls for Douglas Carswell, Suzanne Evans and Patrick O’Flynn to leave the party
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Banks has called on Douglas Carswell, Suzanne Evans and Patrick O’Flynn, the three main figures who do not want Farage to remain as leader, to be thrown out of the party.
“Everyone who's been involved with it should go,” Banks tells the New Statesman. “It's not very edifying and I don't believe these people should have our support. There's a proper way to do things and we don't do things this way.”
Banks is particularly furious at Suzanne Evans, the author of Ukip’s manifesto who Farage had recommended to be interim leader over the summer and many had assumed would eventually succeed Farage.
“It reflects very poorly on her - this is not the way to do things. Particularly with the party membership, all of this will be frowned upon,” he said. “It's very disappointing – I think yet again maybe someone has got a little bit above themselves. It's a party isn't it and they can't just take over. No one's disputing there's probably some change needed after the election but this is not the way to do it. They should all go on holiday.”
Banks also attacked Douglas Carswell, who he described as viewing himself as “God’s appointed representative” of the campaign to leave the EU and “probably doesn't relish the idea of Nigel being there as well.
.”Carswell’s opposition to accepting the full £650,000 of Short Money that Ukip are entitled to after the general election incited fury among many in the party who believed that the party needed the money to represent the four million who voted for Ukip last week.
“He's shown his intention that he's prepared to do that type of thing and for that reason I'd rather have no MPs than one whose interests don't like with Ukip,” Banks said. “No one is bigger than the party and the kind of shenanigans that are going on don't give me any confidence.”
O’Flynn – “a jumped up little bloke who think he's going to be the next party leader” - didn’t escape Banks’ wrath either. “The thought that Patrick O'Flynn could take over from Nigel Farage is just ridiculous,” he said, likening seeing him on TV to “watching paint dry”.
“Patrick would be well-advised to sit on Nigel's knee and learn,”he continued. “When you've got a ten out of ten, someone like Patrick O'Flynn is probably a five out of ten - it shows him up.”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/exclusive-ukip-donor-arron-banks-calls-douglas-carswell-suzanne-evans-and-patrick-o