The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
News has emerged that Bob Spink's first place in the Westminster contest last week wasn't his only victory. The former Tory MP-turned-UKIP MP romped home into the winners enclosure after following allegations that he'd had an affair with a former Conservative councillor. Five national newspapers and the Tory Party were forced to pay undisclosed damages. Still, credit where it's due. At least the Tories...
Not a sheep (Free subscription) | 18/10/2008
A most contrived title to report that according to the BBC: "Bob Spink has won the Westminster dog of the year contest with his two greyhounds, Fozzy Bear and Jessie. Mr Spink, who defected to UKIP from the Conservatives earlier this year, beat off competition from 11 other entries ... Roger Gale and Andrew Rosindell, both Conservatives, filled the runner-up spots." Why all Conservatives or ex-Conservatives?...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
UKIP MP Bob Spink wins the Westminster dog of the year competition with his two greyhounds.
Dog News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2008
UKIP MP Bob Spink wins the Westminster dog of the year competition with his two greyhounds. Link to full story Latest Dog News from K9 Magazine and Content aggregated by Dog News
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Question asked by Bob Spink. To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what estimate he has made of the average time per year spent by a household in sorting and recycling rubbish. Answer: No such estimate has been made. Yup. They simply haven’t even bothered to measure it, the expenditure of the ultimate non-renewable [...]
Is there more to life than shoes? (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bob Spink (Castle Point, UKIP) | Hansard source To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform if he will place in the Library the minutes of the meeting of 12 September 2007 in Brussels between his Department, the European Commission and Post Office Ltd. Patrick McFadden (Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise...
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Bob Spink, the party’s first MP. "We’ve an honourable history of fighting for freedom"….absolutely right, given that we pretty much invented the concepts of individual freedom and liberty. "In joining UKIP I put my country before my career. The young men and women in our Armed Forces put their country before their very lives: my risk is [...]
Is there more to life than shoes? (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Last week Bob Spink MP and I put some questions together for the MoD after that ridiculous speech by Comrade Brown telling us not to throw away food. It was in relation to army ration packs which do not have a sell by date because they are tested for freshness in another way but because of that they cannot be sold on etc. Also, because they cost more than fresh food, messes will not mix them in with...
Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Full coverage of UK politics Bob Spink, the Tory MP who defected to the UK Independence Party, last week expressed his desire to see more women elected to Parliament. And right on cue, the Conservatives in his Castle Point constituency have just chosen 40-year-old Rebecca Harris to fight the seat at the next election, when she's expected to replace Spink. I'm sure he'll be delighted for her...
The Croydonian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
From yesterday's Hansard : Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many residences of foreign diplomats there are in (a) Castle Point and (b) Essex. Meg Munn: According to our records, there are no foreign diplomats currently living in Castle Point and 21 foreign diplomats currently living in Essex. Having spent my formulative years in the Far East (1) I am...
ConservativeHome's Seats & Candidat (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Rebecca Harris today pipped Dominic Schofield to the post to win the selection for Castle Point, out of the shortlist of eight. Castle Point is a Conservative seat currently held by defector to UKIP Bob Spink MP. Rebecca Harris -...
UKIP TV - The Independence Channel (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Bob Spink on the political slot
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Days like these 42 days in clink without a charge. What rotters would pursue such a vile infringement of our ancient liberties? The answer is: Ann Widdecombe, the DUP, our old friend Bob Spink and most of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Bloggers now regularly make waves, but rarely do they get quoted by the Prime Minster. During firey exchanges at this week's PMQs, ahead of the crucial 42 [...]
The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
Mr Eugenides observes that for all the talk - much of it reasonable - that the Tories are soft on liberty and that we lbertarian-types should therefore vote for UKIP (no thanks!), UKIP's only MP, Bob Spink, voted with the government on 42 Days. In the comments, Trixy, of Is There More to Life Than Shoes fame, says this was fine because he wasmerely reflecting the views of his constituents. Which means...
The Appalling Strangeness (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
The statement that our MPs are a shower of ignorant, self-serving shower of shits should come as a surprise to precisely no-one. In the aftermath of the 42 days detention vote win, two people particularly stand out to me as colossal wankers: Bob Spink , UKIP's only MP, who seems determined to prove that UKIP are not Libertarian at all; and Mohammed Sarwar , who apparently decided to support the bill...
