Nigel Farage has been forced to abandon a public appearance in Rotherham due to protests at the UKIP offices in the town.
UKIP has been having some website difficulties for the last few hours, possibly because they forgot to pay their bills, but the internet has reacted in its normal way to the news by poking some fun at UKIP’s anti-EU and anti-immigration policies.
UKIP’s website has been redirecting to a holding page for domain registrars 123-reg for hours after an “overnight technical problem”, which has yet to be fully rectified.
A Ukip councillor has been expelled from the party for comments she made in an interview that brought the party into disrepute.
UKIP has been widely mocked online after party organisers mistook Westminster Cathedral for a mosque in a segment for the BBC’s Daily Politics.