One of the happy consequences of the recent local council elections – and there weren’t many – is that it seems to have persuaded UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi to keep his mouth shut for a while.

In fact, there has been pretty much radio silence from UKIP HQ since the results came rolling in.

Utter humiliation

And what an embarrassment they were, with not a sign of the promised ‘purple wave’ of support: of the 17 seats which UKIP contested, they came last in fifteen of them, and second from last in the other two. In nine of them they polled 1% or less of the vote, and their highest vote was a meagre 2.9%.

It was utter humiliation.

Down in Nettleham and Saxilby in Lincolnshire where NEC member ‘Pastor’ Rikki Doolan loudly and publicly placed his faith in the almighty, he picked up just eighteen votes. Yes, that’s right. Eighteen.

O Lord, give me a sign…

All of this presents a problem for Tencoco (‘The Clown’). Before he was banged up, ‘Tommy Robinson’ described UKIP as “Far stronger than any other political party” and signalled a desire to hook UKIP, the political party, up with his ‘cultural’ street movement as a kind of two-pronged racist battering ram.

His original plan was a link up with Farage and Reform UK, but Farage had ‘betrayed the nation’ (translation: ‘told me to piss off’) so that was off the agenda.

Party in name only

The UKIP tie-up may all be in doubt now, given that UKIP has demonstrated both in the local elections and the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, that it is actually a political party in name only.

It has no national branch structure, a rapidly diminishing membership (apart from recent Tommy Robinson-supporting recruits) and is utterly incapable of putting together an effective election campaign.

So why would Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) waste his time and his hard-grifted cash keeping a couple of chancers like Tenconi and UKIP Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’ Walker in the style to which they have become accustomed?

Tenconi has said he wants to run Robinson as a UKIP candidate in a parliamentary election. He may find that, when he gets out, Robinson has other plans. Possibly involving Ben Habib and Rupert Lowe, both of whom are fans of the Luton wide boy and Habib now running his own potential election vehicle in the form of the Integrity Party (sic) which may have rather better prospects than the laughing-stock that UKIP has become.

Ignominious retreat

And then, of course, there was the ignominious retreat in Manchester when Tenconi, surrounded by his bunch of geriatric minders, turned tail and fled from anti-fascist counter demonstrators a couple of weeks ago. This from the man whom Robinson had previously described as “showing great leadership”.

Meanwhile, we detect a little distancing going on by UKIP NEC members. Dean Neil, who was appointed to the NEC just before the deranged Mr (Simon) Bean and who apparently took exception at having to sit with him at UKIP’s top table, has withdrawn and thoroughly expunged all refences to UKIP from his Facebook page.

Seriously delusional

But even more interestingly, the batshit preacher, Calvin Robinson, though still listed as an NEC member and the party’s Lead Spokesman on Everything, has quietly removed references to UKIP from his X/Twitter bio and indeed from other social media accounts.

Is he trying to tell us something? Or, more importantly, is he trying to tell Ben Habib something?

Whatever, the ‘reverend’ is plainly becoming seriously delusional: in a recent online appearance he carefully positioned himself so that he replaced Christ in the tableau of the Last Supper.

Crucifixion, of course, is nothing alongside the persecution suffered by England’s (self-styled) ‘most cancelled man’.