The sad fact is that the moment the story broke, the Leader should have had one of his aides spend a couple of days investigating the facts so that he would then know what action to take.
Roger did not do this. Nor did Nigel the Leader of the MEPs. Instead their failure to take action magnified the damage from the foolish Wise.
All of the talk of "having to take issues to a disciplinary committee" is the type of bureaucratic nonsense that the EC spouts which I thought UKIP was against?
Would Michael Howard have sat back and waited? The answer is of course no as happened prior to the last election when 2 MPs strayed from the line and swiftly had their elegibility to stand as candidates of the Tories withdrawn. Brutal, decisive and swift.
The damage I fear from this, the 3rd MEP in trouble may be a fatal nail in our coffin.
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