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Originally Posted by fordtit
I hope that the rumours in the East are not true. We now have our first MP and yet some want Spink to run for the Euros! This insane. We need more MPs not more MEPs. Why on earth would we want to lose our only MP to Brussels?
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Take a look at who wants him to run for the MEP list (if this isn't just a rumour). If they are all staff or family members of staff, then that will pretty much confirm that he was offered an MEP seat to join UKIP and the UKIP whispering network is putting the word out.
I would find it very hard to believe that ordinary UKIP activists would support his placement on the MEP list; that is pretty much an admission of defeat in his constituency. As you say, as UKIP's first MP and a very new member of the party, he should be making his fight there, not in Brussels.