Paul StainesThis “relentlessly mocking” Irish right-wing blogger is the editor of the UK’s most read political blog and operates with a guiding force of: “Fuck with me, and I fuck with you”. Staines has variously worked for political parties, as a professional blackjack player, a futures broker, a bond dealer and a hedge fund manager and even helped a friend with the promotion of acid house raves. The politician whose company he most enjoys is Nigel Farage.

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Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman DBE (1923 – 2014)
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Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman DBE (1923 – 2014)

At one point both an MP and an MEP at the same time, this former Conservative member for Lancaster (1970 – 1997) was known for her “trill” voice and once described as sounding like a “squawking parrot”. A strict Methodist, Kellett-Bowman was a campaigner for the return of the death penalty and against moral laxity […]

Pat Mountain (AKA ‘Pat The Prized Pillock’ and ‘Someone’s Nan’) – UKIP’s interim leader in December 2019, Pat Mountain is a Brighton based berk with no idea what a constituency is. She thinks Gerrard Batten “brave.”
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Pat Mountain (AKA ‘Pat The Prized Pillock’ and ‘Someone’s Nan’)

More of a molehill than a mountain, UKIP’s dimwit “interim leader” (for a moment and thankfully hopefully not a moment longer) believes her party to be “anything but racist.” In a lorry wreck of an interview on Adam Boulton’s ‘All About Politics’ on Sky News on 2nd December 2019, this Brighton based berk and […]