And even more swivelling...

As Robert Kilroy-Silk's maiden speech to the European Parliament is greeted by laughter from the Commission's new President his erstwhile colleague Ashley Mote starts talking to Jean-Marie Le Pen about joining his more-swivel-eyed-than-thou grouping in the Parliament:

However, the UKIP’s attempts to gain credibility and distance itself from the far Right was dealt a blow when an MEP whom the party suspended last week entered talks about joining forces with Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the French National Front.

Ashley Mote, who was disciplined for not revealing that he was awaiting trail for charges of housing benefit fraud, reduced the number of the UKIP MEPs from 12 to 11.

Mr Mote immediately started talks with M. Le Pen, who is also an MEP and is trying to form a sufficiently large group of far-Right MEPs to qualify for EU funding and staff. Mr Le Pen told The Times that he had 14 of the 18 MEPs needed to form an officially recognised political group. Claude Moraes, a Labour MEP and former Commissioner for Racial Equality, said: “This is a clear connection between UKIP and the far Right.”

I'm wondering if Anthony timed his wedding and honeymoon deliberately for now because of the time it would take to keep up with the sheer number of swivel eyed loon updates required right now.