On Friday 5th October we saw the launch of the new political venture of ex-UKIP MEP, Nicki Sinclair, at Westminster Central Methodist Hall before a small audience and with little media interest.

While I welcome any additional pressure that may be brought to bear on the Establishment, to actually have the now often promised but never delivered EU referendum, I have grave doubts whether this venture of Nicki Sinclair’s will significantly help achieve that objective.

The launch of another single issue anti-EU party to rival UKIP can only be welcomed in one sense, which is that it will, of course, significantly damage UKIP. This is not least because Nicki Sinclair’s has used her time as a UKIP MEP to get a large proportion of UKIP’s supporters to sign up to her anti-EU referendum petition, which handily gives her a large and probably quite comprehensive database of the contact details of all of UKIP’s supporters. It will not therefore be surprising if the damage to UKIP is quite catastrophic.

A couple of years ago I would have been quite sorry to see that, but over the last two years I have experienced enough of a taste of UKIP’s devious, underhand, dishonourable tactics to no longer have any qualms about seeing another one of their splitters seek to damage them.

It was noteworthy that at Nicki Sinclair’s launch that there was a reunion between her and another UKIP defector MEP, David Campbell-Bannerman. It will be interesting to watch whether that rapprochement bears any fruit.

In the meanwhile, below is a discussion which took place on Facebook which gives a clear insight into how irremediable the breach is between Nigel Farrage and Nicki Sinclair. In my view the falling out of various groups of British/UKish patriots/nationalists is more likely to leave the field open for the growth of the only English nationalist party – the English Democrats! So does ‘every cloud’ have a silver lining!?