UKIP’s Dr Bob Spink MP very kindly agreed to do a Q&A session for Bloggers4UKIP and here it is, unedited and straight from the horses mouth: It’s now been 8 months since you left the Conservatives and joined UKIP. Do you ever regret making the move? Do you think you still stand a good chance of

UKIP's Dr Bob Spink MP very kindly agreed to do a Q&A session for Bloggers4UKIP and here it is, unedited and straight from the horses mouth: It's now been 8 months since you left the Conservatives and joined UKIP. Do you ever regret making the move? Do you think you still stand a good chance of getting re-elected? No regrets and as an Independent, I have a decent chance of winnin...

UKIP MP Bob Spink wins the Westminster dog of the year competition with his two greyhounds.

Mr Spink, the MP for Castle Point, sits as an Independent MP in the House of Commons. The BBC wrongly acredited Mr Spink as a UKIP MP while reporting his support for Michael Martin, the Speaker who today announced he will be standing down in the wake of the MP expenses scandal.

Interesting that the UKIP MP Bob Spink is taking flak today for the Opposition losing the debate over Menzies Campbell amendment which proposed setting aside the Government's motion time-delaying the setting up of the yesterday in the Commons. Bob and the Lib Dems, that is. Spink took the view that: We have two privileges to uphold: one is the privilege of this House, but another importa...

Hunter has just been browsing the latest Early Day Motions (EDMs) in Parliament. One motion, EDM1948, heaps praise on the merger of two unions and on Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley, the left-wing leaders of the Unite union. Who wrote is? George Galloway? John McDonnell? Diane Abbot? Jeremy Corbyn? No, step forward Bob Spink, the Conservative-to-UKIP member for Castle Point. Hunter wonders if Spink...

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.

I received an email from Bob Spink MP today regarding a debate he took part in on the compulsory education and/or training of English children to the age of 17 (later to be increased to 18). Bob argued that this is an unnecessary extension to “big government” and the control they have over our lives.  He

Back in 2005 I was Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Castle Point, an Essex seat comprising Canvey Island and the "mainland" communities of Benfleet, Thundersley and Hadleigh. Although I got soundly beaten by Bob Spink MP, then a Tory and now an Independent (via a stint in UKIP), I enjoyed the campaign and made some great friends in the local Labour Party. However, there was always an awareness o...

As much as I hate the waste of money Early Day motions are they do provide me with amusement so I shouldn't complain. Bob Spink, Independent/UKIP depending on the day of the week, has tabled a motion that says, That this House notes there are over five million people in the UK with asthma and over one million of these are children; further notes that children with asthma may be excluded from acade...