Farage, Banks ‘to join DUP’

Nigel Farage was speaking this evening at a DUP event in Ballymena, alongside DUP MPs Ian Paisley Jr, Sammy Wilson and Paul Girvan:

While there, he may have been filling in application forms.

Rumours are strengthening in Northern Ireland that he – and former UKIP funder Arron Banks – are about to join the DUP, in spite of Farage’s attempts to quash them during a Sky News appearance earlier today.

A Northern Irish source told the SKWAWKBOX:

It’s looking more likely. The reward for Farage would probably be a safe seat in Northern Ireland, probably in the Ballymena bible belt.

Mr Farage was accused last autumn, in an email to OLAF investigators, of being under sealed indictment in the US in relation to Robert Mueller’s investigation into Donald Trump.

Of course, if it happens, the obvious irony in Farage joining a political party dedicated to keeping its territory in a political union with a larger landmass that around half its inhabitants want to escape from will not be lost on many.

The SKWAWKBOX needs your support. This blog is provided free of charge but depends on the generosity of its readers to be viable. If you can afford to, please click here to arrange a one-off or modest monthly donation via PayPal. Thanks for your solidarity so this blog can keep bringing you information the Establishment would prefer you not to know about.

If you wish to reblog this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.