"Ex-Tory Mr. Bob Spink MP to become the first ever UKIP MP in the Commons" (claim)

Conservative Party General Issues>"Ex-Tory Mr. Bob Spink MP to become the first ever UKIP MP in the Commons" (claim)

Tory rebel Bob Spink becomes Ukip's first MP - Telegraph

More on this at:

http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/ukip...-first-mp.html

Conservative opinion poll lead down from 13% to 5% says ICM:

http://www.democracyforum.co.uk/brit...his-party.html

Brief extract from the Telegraph article on the link in the first posting to this thread:

"Mr Spink was welcomed to UKIP by Nigel Farage MEP, the party's leader. He said "I am delighted to welcome the hard-working and deeply principled Bob Spink as UKIP's first member of Parliament." Lord Willoughby de Broke, a UKIP Peer, added: "I am thrilled that UKIP now has a representative in the House of Commons. I look forward to working with him to further UKIP's programme of leaving the European Union."

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First crack in the dam. Now keep hammering away at the crack!

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He's a very smart man. He has a PhD in economics. That's just what we could do with, someone who can hold these people to account.

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Originally Posted by Baron von Lotsov:
He's a very smart man. He has a PhD in economics.

Very impressive :-).

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