United in Principle

Having been rejected by the electorate in favour of more of the same, the Conservatives have now been rebuffed by the Farage Falange after the Dear Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition categorically ruled out almost any deals or pacts that are insufficiently clandestine, back-stairs or opportunistic. The strutting Caudillo draped himself across his high horse in response to the assertion that local councillors of different parties routinely form coalitions when it's "right for people in their local area," or far-right as the case may be. Alas, the Farage Falange has no intention of hobbling its performance by shacking up with a self-made caricature of the Farage Falange, associating itself with a party offering more of the same and thereby compromising the credibility of its own radical offer of more of the same with knobs on.