Swivel-eyed loon update

As Anthony Wells is too busy getting married (and good luck to him, should he happen to be reading this) to keep us up to date with the antics of everyone's favourite wild-eyed nutters, I suppose it falls to me to inform you that UKIP have withdrawn the whip from one of their MEPs after he failed to inform them he was facing a trial for housing benefit fraud:

UKIP said: "The whip has been removed because Mr Mote did not inform the party of this situation before, during or immediately after the campaign."

The spokesman added: "We do not want to comment on the particulars of the court case, or in any way try to influence the outcome of the case."

UKIP said they only discovered the situation because of an article in the Daily Telegraph.