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LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts) Mon Oct 17, 2016, 04:37 PM Oct 2016

UKIP leadership favourite Steven Woolfe quits 'ungovernable party after fight leaves him

hospitalized (Business Insider)

Steven Woolfe has quit UKIP.

Woolfe was favourite to replace Nigel Farage as leader of the party but was hospitalised in Strasbourg earlier this month after an alleged fight with a fellow UKIP MEP.

Woolfe issued a statement on his website late on Monday night saying the party is "ungovernable without Nigel Farage leading it and without the referendum cause to unite it."

"The party is riddled with infighting, proxy wars between rival camps and is run by an NEC that is not fit for purpose," Woolfe says. ..

http://uk.businessinsider.com/steven-woolfe-quits-ukip-2016-10?r=US&IR=T

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UKIP leadership favourite Steven Woolfe quits 'ungovernable party after fight leaves him (Original Post) LeftishBrit Oct 2016 OP

Steven Woolfe quits ‘death-spiral’ Ukip over fights and feuding muriel_volestrangler Oct 2016 #1

I thought the (alleged) fight Denzil_DC Oct 2016 #2

... an' anudder one bite de dus' ... non sociopath skin Oct 2016 #3

muriel_volestrangler

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1. Steven Woolfe quits ‘death-spiral’ Ukip over fights and feuding

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Mon Oct 17, 2016, 06:06 PM

Oct 2016

He said he had come to the conclusion that Ukip was ungovernable without Farage leading it and the referendum cause to unite the party. He also told the BBC that Ukip had entered a “death spiral, of their own making”.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/17/ukip-mep-steven-woolfe-quits-party

Sounds about right. There might be hope for him yet.

Denzil_DC

(7,241 posts)

2. I thought the (alleged) fight

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Mon Oct 17, 2016, 10:57 PM

Oct 2016

was over his swithering about defecting to the Tories anyway!

Despite what was said while he was in hospital about letting bygones be bygones, and Hookem's denial that he punched him, it doesn't sound like Woolfe's going to let it lie now.

non sociopath skin

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3. ... an' anudder one bite de dus' ...

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Thu Oct 20, 2016, 04:06 PM

Oct 2016

.... in this case, figuratively AND literally.

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