Farage contemplates Kilroy's expulsion

The Guardian diarist Marina Hyde today reveals (linked here) that Nigel Farage - the power behind Knapman sees his own long-term prospects so threatened that he is ready for drastic action, or at least is not prepared to rule it out:

"the Diary's Simon Goodley asks Kilroy's Ukip colleague Nigel Farage. "I haven't seen him since," admits Nigel. Where the hell does does he go from here? "Well, we're all meeting in Brussels on Wednesday," Nigel reveals, "when we'll say we'd like to have him on board but that article on Sunday was a different matter." We've no wish to accuse you of a lack of foresight, says Simon, but does his behaviour come as an enormous surprise? "Yes. I don't know the man," says Nigel, as though one would need 40 dinner dates with Genghis Khan before identifying him as a chap with vague aggression issues. Will they expel Kilroy? "I very much hope it doesn't come to that."

Not only is there to be tomorrow's crunch meeting between the MEPs (in a truly democratic party would they not just get one vote each on the issue as for any other members, making their decision of no more importance than any dozen or so other members gathering together?), but we also understand that Paul Sykes is re-emerging from the Tory blue yonder, and that a meeting involving this significant ex-donor and other key-players is also on the cards.