Nigel Farage has, predictably, been basking in his purported friendship with Donald Trump ever since the disastrous Presidential election result was announced last week. But he’s not the only one. Also posting pictures of himself with the great sex offender is the UK’s far right ‘batshit preacher’, Calvin Robinson, who recently decamped to the US to minister to a new flock in West Michigan. He even managed to inveigle himself into Trump circles and address a Trump rally only days before the poll, meeting Trump in the process.

Then Robinson’s UK party UKIP, (where Robinson is still ‘Lead Spokesman’ on everything) posted a picture of him with Trump, congratulating the President-elect on his victory

We wonder, though, what Trump will say when he learns that Robinson’s UKIP is currently slagging off Trump’s mate, Nigel Farage, at every opportunity.

At Tommy Robinson’s recent ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in London, both UKIP Leader Nick Tenconi and its Wales spokesman Stan Robinson (no relation to either) appeared on the platform to launch withering attacks on Farage and Reform UK. This is because at his earlier July rally, Tommy Robinson asked from the platform how many present had voted Reform and almost every hand went up. Now UKIP and Tommy Robinson are trying split some of that support away from Farage.

Tommy Robinson, currently plotting an alliance with UKIP from his jail cell, has accused Farage of betrayal by refusing to stand against the ‘Islamisation of the country’ and appointing a Muslim as Chairman of Reform. 

And Calvin Robinson himself also piled in, attacking Trump’s favoured English son in no uncertain terms. In an interview given just the day before he flew off to the States, he said:

I don’t trust Nigel Farage. He has a massive ego. It’s all about him. It’s only ever about getting him into Parliament, getting him into the elite. He wants to become part of the establishment. And has done for a long time”.

Robinson said he believes that Farage was promised a peerage by then-PM Boris Johnson if he stood Brexit Party candidates down in over 300 seats in the 2109 general election, but that Boris reneged on the deal.

“(Farage) killed both UKIP and Brexit Party. I think he’ll probably do the same for Reform.”

So, it will be interesting to see how much longer the ‘reverend’ will be welcome in Donald Trump circles, once Farage has managed to drip some poison into Trump’s ear.