Neil Hamilton’s Ukip supergroup – alt-right Led Zeppelin or white supremacist A-Team?

An Infowars starlet, a former Breitbarter, an anti-feminist vlogger and a man who taught a dog to do Nazi salutes have joined the disgraced politician in the far-right party. What’s the worst that could happen?

As a new supergroup, it came out of the blue – and is all the more musically historic for it. On Tuesday, Neil Hamilton took to the internet with an announcement: “I’d like to welcome @PrisonPlanet, Sargon of Akkad, @CountDankulaTV and Milo Yiannopoulos to UKIP.”

Wow. Talk about Crosby, Stills, Nash and Himmler. It’s easily Hamilton’s best-advised welcome since he welcomed those brown envelopes from Mohamed Al Fayed in the 90s, doubtless thinking: ooh, this feels like something that would be a good idea for an MP to do. What’s the worst that could happen?

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