Mike Nattrass, the former deputy leader of Ukip, sensationally quit the party on Thursday evening in protest at Nigel Farage’s "totalitarian" leadership.
The MEP, who has been embroiled in a long-standing legal dispute with the party over his deselection as a candidate for the 2014. Huffington Post.
This article is absurdly incorrect.
Firstly, Nattrass was not 'deselected' at all. He was part of a huge process to decide who, out of more than 200 candidates, would be in the the top 60 for the May elections. He simply 'failed the exam' in a meritocratic process.
This process involved a plethora of interviews and a variety of other hoops which candidates had to jump through.
Deeply unhappy that 60 of the two hundred had been found to be 'better candidates than he', he sued Ukip.
It was then that the judge stated that the new election procedure - a process devised by the party's democratically elected NEC - was "not only fair but DESIGNED to be fair." Nattrass lost.
Furthermore, Nigel Farage had no influence over the process whatsoever which was entirely in the hands of the NEC.
Perhaps SOME might suggest that finding himself legitimately in the bottom 140+ applicants turned him into a sore loser and one whom, I understand, also had to pay the court costs.