TBG's stomach is churning
UKIP have today sensationally selected Roger Helmer to fight the Newark By Election. The Newark UKIP Twitter account welcomed their new candidate saying - "Our new indigenous white candidate is ready to rock and roll" - which may make the mentally incapacitated among us snigger.
Helmer is currently UKIP's Energy spokesperson but has chequered history.
He defected to the party after being originally elected as a Euro MP to represent the Conservatives in the East Midlands.
In 2005 Helmer also played a key role alongside Chris Heaton-Harris in helping Karl McCartney put a huge dent in Gillian Merron's Labour majority in Lincoln.
McCartney went on to beat Merron by a "1,000 and a bit votes" in 2010.
As TBG confirmed yesterday, Nigel Farage has bottled out of Newark to focus on the Portsmouth South seat instead where Mike Hancock faces a civil law suit at the end of next month.
Robert Jenrick will be representing the Conservatives in Newark and Michael Payne is standing for Labour.
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