The Roger Bird-Natasha Bolter saga continues. Text messages between the Ukip romantics have revealed by the Telegraph which paint Bolter in a less favourable than Bird. While the Ukip investigation is ongoing, Bird has told Guido that they demonstrate a ‘gradual development of the relationship and make it clear that there was no impropriety involved’.
That’s as maybe, but is there anything proper about text flirting of this appalling calibre? Here are some more text messages from Botler to Bird:
Nov 9, 17.26: “I am really missing u bird…”
Nov 6, 19.05: “I have sang you praises to Nigel for 12 minutes”
Nov 6, 00.24: “U r not coming back and accordingly my life will go back to a meaningless void and it was chance that I met u.

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