[theo_luddite]

He was extreme right enough to make condom faced Cameron panic about losing votes/MP's to UKIP in an election to call the referendum in the first place. Since then he's just about the only ex-kipper not to turn up as a "Conservative" on a ballot paper somewhere else. Yes there are worse, but he was/is the "beer and fags, let's have a laugh with the lads" face of the far right whilst signing up many of the far more obnoxious pricks that you refer to from the likes of the BNP, National Front and others that were festering like boils on the edge of the swamps.