What makes you think he is an egomaniac?
I think if you watched his speech at the election, it was definitely the words of a man that had every intention to stand down.
As a UKIP member myself, I can tell you that from the average member to the very top - pretty much everybody was adamant that he must stay.
I think if you watched his speech at the election, it was definitely the words of a man that had every intention to stand down.
And maybe run again to succeed himself in a new election. Seems like kabuki to me that he wanted to be asked to stay.
I can tell you that from the average member to the very top - pretty much everybody was adamant that he must stay.
You want him, you got him. I would question the desire to keep the leader who came into the election with 2 seats and high hopes for more and came out of it with 1 seat, everyone knew before hand what the electoral system was.