After Britain’s departure from the EU, Brexit Party MEPs have been forced to cope with nearly a month of unemployment and political irrelevance.

However, not content to leave the limelight, Farage’s former stooges have been attempting to reinvent themselves in a post-EU era, with varying levels of success.

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We’ve been tracking their movements, and can reveal what they’ve been getting up to.

Probably the most vocal former MEPs since returning from Brussels, Michael Heaver and Martin Daubney have fulfilled every bored white man’s dream of creating a podcast.

Called Brexit Bros, the podcast is designed to provide a politically incorrect space for Daubney and Heaver to vent their inner frustrations with women, trans people and (of course) Brexit.

In fact, just a few weeks after its inception, the podcast has already been used to peddle fake news. Nothing less than we’d expect.

As well as dabbling in broadcast journalism, some of the former MEPs have decided to try their hands at digital media. Ben Habib and Brian Monteith have launched a blog called Brexit Watch, enlisting the support of right-wing lawyer Benjamin Wrench to track ongoing Brexit negotiations.

The company behind the blog is called Global Britain – a group that paid for covert, anti-Labour attack ads on Facebook during the general election.

As for other figures, Farage’s self-described “right-hand woman” Alex Phillips has stayed pretty quiet until today when she wrote a strange article for Spiked, both defending men’s rights but also calling for men to act more like men, whatever that means.

She said:

“Then there’s the slur ‘gammon’, which suggests that vast swathes of the male population are aesthetically and intellectually inferior – including people like my dad”.

Anyway….

Welsh Brexiteers James Wells and Nathan Gill are now listed as the co-directors of a start up called “In Yer Face Ads”. While it has no presence as of yet, we can only assume that this will be an advertising company, using an “In Yer Face” style. Best of luck to them.

Claire Fox and Henrik Overgaard Nielsen are running a conference called “Change Politics for Good”, platforming controversial former parliamentary candidates like Stuart Waiton (who’s been accused of apologising for racism).

Fox is also advising Toby Young’s Free Speech Union, while Overgaard Nielsen has formed a campaign group advocating a left-wing Brexit. Despite the fact we’ve already left the EU.

Keeping lower profiles, Lucy Harris looks set to continue coordinating Leavers of Britain – social groups for people who feel alienated by society because they voted for a policy that a) the majority of people voted for and b) is going ahead.

Lance Forman has gone back to flogging Boris Johnson’s favourite salmon, and Ann Widdecombe has expressed a desire to return to pantomime.

Meanwhile, Belinda De Lucy’s Twitter bio reads: “Happy to stay politically irrelevant”.

If only the other Brexit Party MEPs would follow her lead.

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