Mike aka Cllr, again I salute your courage. I am in almost identical case to you, having had to sunder a friendship because the former friend's political standpoint is unacceptable to me.

At risk of thread drift - not that it hasn't :-) - I had thought of wasting a vote on UKIP until I saw what I think is its latest poster -

"Say NO to unlimited immigration" OWTTE. UKIP, BNP - two sides of one coin ?

Oh, and Churchill, giving his favourite V sign. Only it was arse-about-face :-).