Self-inflicted wounds, pt 94

I think the keyword for Robert Kilroy-Silk's next speech to the loons might have to be 'oops':

The UK Independence Party's largest donor says he will not provide funds for its General Election campaign.

The anti-EU party has pledged to fight almost every constituency at the general election expected in May.

But Paul Sykes, who has contributed £1.4m, thinks UKIP will achieve little more than unseat Eurosceptic Tory MPs.

The North Yorkshire businessman told BBC Radio 4: "Conservative Party policy on Europe is now moving in the right direction."

UKIP's would-be leader Robert Kilroy-Silk's declaration he wanted to "kill" the Tories is understood to have been the final straw for Mr Sykes, who has twice left the Conservative Party because of its policy on Europe.

Anyone with a spare few hundred thousand pounds lying around would do well to contact UKIP. If you're really lucky you may even get a tiny bit of it back when Kilroy and a couple of others manage to just about avoid losing their deposits.