While coherence isn’t Paul Golding’s strong suit, it’s hard to read this megaphone rant over the weekend as anything other than an endorsement of UKIP’s by-election campaign from the Britain First chairman:

“You lot are going to have that smile wiped from your face when you have the patriotic right-wing MP “The people don’t want Labour in Medway — that’s not UKIP. Losing , they [Labour] don’t want to lose this election by a large way. And you know what, the people who elect Mark Reckless, who’s a patriot, who wants to get us out of the EU, so who’s gonna have the last laugh? [sic]”

This comes after mosque-invading Britain First, which is a registered political party and is actually standing its own candidate in Rochester, told its supporters via Facebook that their rejection by UKIP was “all bluster for the media’s sake”.

Statement on Britain First Facebook page today not exactly helpful to UKIP… (h/t @MattRedmore) pic.twitter.com/Xw1RKTWOU1 — Alex Wickham (@WikiGuido) October 28, 2014

The visible backing for UKIP from known far-right activists is becoming more and more blatant.

But more on that tomorrow.