Empty froth gets the goods.

The press are loving this UKIP burqa story. UKIP's only motivation is to compete for BNP votes. Nothing more.

It's vapid, right wing, controversial for the sake of it, and nothing will come of it so it suits the mainstream news agenda perfectly.

I think that senior Green Party members need to start making populist froth statements about the banks or something. We need to grab the headlines in the same way the hard right are doing. We don't appear very good at it - too careful and considered. We spent years looking over our shoulder about being seen as whacko. Now with fascists running around and the mainstream landing us £880,000,000,000 in debt it's pretty clear to anyone with a brain that we aint the whacko ones.