Where next for Kilroy?

From today's Independent:
Robert Kilroy-Silk, the politician turned TV presenter who lost his daytime show for insulting the Arab nations, has now joined a group of people who think that continental Europe is ruled by "barbarians".

Mr Kilroy-Silk confirmed yesterday that he is running for the European Parliament as an East Midlands candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP).

The former Labour MP, whose opinions have become more right-wing as he has grown older, wants Britain to withdraw from the EU altogether, and to impose heavy restrictions on immigration. He gives his reasons in a column in today's Sunday Express.

The UKIP's publicist, Max Clifford, was confident yesterday that Mr Kilroy-Silk will also endorse the anti-EU sentiments being circulated in leaflets produced by his new party colleagues in the East Midlands. The tone of the leaflets has shocked Labour Party canvassers, but Mr Clifford has said that they are good publicity for the party and that he hopes Mr Kilroy-Silk will give them his personal backing.

One leaflet handed out in Derby, by the South Derbyshire branch of UKIP, claimed: "The EU is nothing more than a devilish conspiracy to deliver a quasi-communist-socialist-federal dream state."

The leaflets add that "it is inspired by envy, greed and self-serving ambition that dictates if they can't beat us they will drag us down to their level because they can't bear to see a free and democratic country like the UK doing better than they are".

The same leaflet warns that "predators are at the gate" and that "no one and nothing is safe from the barbarians in our midst". Mr Clifford said: "As PR for the UK Independence Party I very much hope Kilroy-Silk is going to endorse those thoughts. [The leaflets are] absolutely right and they're good publicity."

So where next for Bob Kilroy-Sulk? I guess there's always the BNP, or maybe he'll fall off the edge and go full circle, end up selling the Socialist Worker outside bus stations.

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