After listening to the BBC Today Programme this morning slaughtering Ramsgate in their need to editorially define Thanet South as a UKIP Tory battleground acted out on a broken town, the news has just come in of another Tory defector to UKIP.
This time in the form of Councillor Chris Wells, Shadow Cabinet Member for Community Services and Councillor for the Viking Ward. Councillor Wells told The Gazette:
This time in the form of Councillor Chris Wells, Shadow Cabinet Member for Community Services and Councillor for the Viking Ward. Councillor Wells told The Gazette:
"“I have become increasingly disillusioned with the direction of the Conservative party under David Cameron, and feel that locally UKIP now offer the best potential for positive change in Thanet.”
Perhaps that would read better as "the best potential for keeping my seat".
One hopes that Councillor Wells, now jumped ship, will not carry on with the jibes in the council chamber about other councillors who've changed parties.
Wells is returning to the side of Roger Latchford. Very soon the cabinet of Sandy Ezekiel will be reassembled. We can look back on those days with fondness as we survey the enduring rubble of Pleasurama.
Remember, folks. As Dave said so well today: "A vote for UKIP is a vote for Labour".
Tricky thing, this gambling malarky.
