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Coffee Shots: Common Sense driving

All aboard Ukip’s Common Sense battle bus! Today Nigel Farage’s party took the fight to Portsmouth – or more precisely, Portsmouth and Southsea Station. It’s not entirely clear what the station did to offend Ukip, but the party’s battle bus accidentally collided with it while trying to execute a U-turn.

Ukip bus collides with railway station

Hopefully it’s not an omen for what will happen when the party drives back over previous commitments made in its 2010 manifesto.

Ukip bus collides with railway station

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