Hurrah! My views on the man have already been stated, but it never hurts to emphasise the point. Not only do we have the Blair/Brown business heating up following the PM’s announcement he’ll step down after a full third term (assuming he doesn’t have any Anthony Eden-esque convenient heart problem excuses, that is), but now the UK Independence Party have also got a leadership fight on their hands. This is hardly a surprise considering Kilroy’s previous antics, but even so, it’s worth a chuckle.

I missed his appearance on Breakfast With Frost yesterday (largly due to it being on a Sunday morning – bed is somewhat more appealing than politics when nursing a severe hangover), but it sounds like it was a corker:

“I would like to be leader of UKIP. I think I could turn it into a very effective, electoral fighting force… What everybody tells me they want is for the current leader to accept the inevitable and to stand down… during the last June elections, the current leader told me and others that he would step down after the election – but then of course he got a massive election result and probably liked the size of his new train set and now he’s changed his mind – that’s fine… Now you will think that’s arrogant and presumptuous and I’ll get accused of all those things but of course I think it would be better, otherwise I wouldn’t want to stand.”

Oh, and “UKIP also revealed yesterday the former TV chef, Rusty Lee, is the latest celebrity to join their parliamentary candidates for the next election.”

Oh my God! Not that political powerhouse Rusty Lee! It’ll be interesting to see the impact another no-mark “celebrity” will have on their reprihensible campaigning style. And it’ll be especially interesting to see how long a black woman can stand being surrounded by a bunch of abject racists…