Harriet Yeo who was Chair of the Labour Party from 2012 to 2013 has resigned from the party having been removed as leader of the small Labour group on Ashford council last week for non-attendance at council meetings and a failure to undertake council casework, and, on Monday night, deselected as a candidate for the 2015 local elections. She then claimed her defection was in order to back UKIP “because of Ed Miliband’s failure to offer a referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union“. Her daughter had already defected to UKIP last March,

Mr Farage commented (presumably to the sound of barrels being scraped): “I’m delighted that Ukip can now count upon the support of such respected figure as Harriet Yeo.” He would no doubt be less pleased to know that only 9 months ago Ms Yeo retweeted the following uncomplimentary messages about him: Continue reading →