UKIP has been compared to the "Black Death" after it was nearly wiped out in the local elections - by Paul Oakley, The General Secretary of UKIP.
When told it was responsible for the deaths of many hundreds of thousands of people, he said: "It also led to economic growth and the Renaissance, but this isn't a history lesson."
Wiki suggests deaths were between 75 and 200 million, but anyway.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 35821.html
Bad news for UKIP.
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Re: Bad news for UKIP.
Another way of looking at it is that the Black Death wiped out maybe a third of the population, but these elections wiped out 98% of UKIP councillors. 
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Re: Bad news for UKIP.
https://twitter.com/joe_co_uk/status/83 ... 84?lang=enEx-UKIP leader Paul Nuttall quits party over Tommy Robinson role
But to be fair, he's been newsworthy for years. An entertaining video from Feb 2017.
https://twitter.com/joe_co_uk/status/83 ... 84?lang=en