UKIP riven with infighting
London (AFP) - A week after a general election in which it won the third biggest share of the national vote but just one seat in parliament, Britain's UK Independence Party is tearing itself apart in spectacular fashion.
First there was charismatic party leader Nigel Farage's short-lived resignation, then a big fallout over finances and on Thursday a stunning attack on Farage from the head of his election campaign.
In an interview with The Times, Patrick O'Flynn said Farage was a "snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive" man who was making UKIP look like a "personality cult".
He called for "a much more consultative and consensual leadership style" and called the recent days a "fiasco" for the party, which is against mass immigration and European Union membership. ...
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