Farage: Parliament recall timing 'to deflect attention' from UKIP

[Chippiewill]

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said a recall of Parliament to discuss airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq has been scheduled to upstage UKIP's party conference.

Mr Farage said Prime Minister David Cameron "will do anything he can to try to deflect attention away from UKIP".

Philip Collins, chair of centre-left think tank Demos, said UKIP's stance was "absolutely bizarre".

The recall on Friday coincides with the start of UKIP's conference.

Mr Farage told the BBC: "I'm not against the recall of parliament, but we are told that they had to delay it to miss the Labour Party conference. They decided to do it in the middle of the UKIP conference.

"I think Mr Cameron will do anything he can to try to deflect attention away from UKIP. He rather hopes and thinks we're going to go away. Well, we're not."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29358552

lol

[-:Undertaker:-]

Believe it or not politicians, especially political parties who ultimately are about self-interest, will actually think of things like this to gain political advantage. Alistair Campbell (especially), Lynton Crosby etc are very very clever men. Never let a crisis go to waste as they say in politics.

Either way, Farage should be diverting resources from Clacton up north to Heywood and Middleton if he wants juicy headlines.

[scottish]

Wasn't Cameron out of the country until friday? lol

Pretty sure it's coincidence and Farage seems a slight bit paranoid.

[Michael]

Parliament have been requesting this for weeks now, fishy why he'd only act now. Late to the fight now Dave, they've gone without you.

[GommeInc]

This is a huge coincidence. He should just say that rather than belittle himself by pretending it was on purpose.

[Chippiewill]

This is a huge coincidence. He should just say that rather than belittle himself by pretending it was on purpose.

The unfortunate reality is that a lot of UKIP supporters are suggestive enough to believe anything anti-establishment so Farage will do very well by going down this route.