It seems our UKIP-related posts of the last couple of days have prompted yet further desertions from the upper echelons of the party.

Dr Chris Ho (pictured left) a Glasgow-based doctor who had been the party’s Health and Social Care Spokesman, was so dismayed at our story that leader Nick Tenconi had a conviction for kicking someone in the head in a club brawl, that he immediately resigned his post.

He concluded, we are told, that such an association was not a great look for a medical doctor whose colleagues frequently had to treat kick-in-the-head victims.

In fairness, we should say this was not our revelation; we merely reposted a tweet from another UKIP watcher, @ukipunzipped, but it was our repost which came to the attention of Dr Ho, and prompted his departure.

That was followed by the sudden removal of Lester ‘Jeff’ Taylor’s name as Party Director from the leadership page on the UKIP website. The word is, though we cannot confirm it, that he was becoming increasingly concerned at being linked to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, and our printing yesterday a photo of the two together (pictured right) broke the camel’s back. Party Chairman Ben ‘Rogue Builder’

Walker is reported to be not at all pleased at these latest defections. And he is saying very disobliging things about Searchlight.

Like we care…