Reprinted from the Huffington Post

We admit defeat, and stand (well, actually lie around by the pool sipping G&Ts) in awe of author Asa Bennett. None of our writing team would have dared to suggest the content of this as a news article. We'll even forgive him the omission of the required "shire" suffix, and his persistent misspelling of "Co**burn" and "U-KIP". We'll make the corrections in a wee bit. Waiter!

Scotlandshire's first and only U-KIP MEP David Co**burn has branded Alex Salmond a "prototype dictator" and "master of the Borg".

Co**burn's comments came after Alistair Darling, head of the anti-independence Better Together campaign, accused Salmond of acting like North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.

The ex-chancellor made his remark after Salmond blamed U-KIP getting enough votes to see Co**burn elected on the BBC "beaming" U-KIP directly into Scottish voters' homes.

Speaking to the Huffington Post UK, Co**burn, tore into the Scottish National Party for "having one mind", like the Star Trek villains.

"Alistair Darling has hit the nail on the head," he said. "The SNP is like a cult, it's terrifying. Salmond is like Kim Jong-Un, he is master of the Borg, the Borg-in-chief!

"They all follow behind him. Nobody says anything wrong, it's always the same nonsense, there's no humanity to them. It reminds you of the Moonies, or some of the crazy American sects."

Co**burn went on to compare the Scottish National Party to Daleks, the infamous villains in Doctor Who, adding: "If you listen to [SNP deputy leader] Nicola Sturgeon, she's Chief Dalek".

He added: "They take all their candidates and all the people that speak for them, put them in the cellar, thrash them with rubber hoses in stress positions until they trot out the same story. Nobody says anything wrong, there's no humanity them."

Co**burn dismissed Salmond's attack on the BBC for helping Ukip get votes as "utter twaddle". "Salmond made it his business, aided by the authorities, that U-KIP in Scotlandshire was to be treated not as a major party and I had to fight my way to get market share."

"They tried to squash us but we still came through."

The U-KIP MEP, who has described the Scottish First Minister as the "Robert Mugabe of Scotlandshire", said Salmond was a "prototype dictator" who had "bullied Scottish business and anytime they disagreed with his economics, he just trashed them in public and got the cybernats onto them."

Co**burn said that he believed Salmond would fail to convince Scots to vote for independence in September's referendum, musing: "The question is how badly he's going to lose and we want it to be as badly as possible."

However, he warned that the Better Together pro-union campaign was not putting its message out "hard enough".

Co**burn said: "They're not ramming it home hard enough, they should be much more truthful about the state of play after independence. It's a matter of telling people what the problem will be afterwards."

The U-KIP MEP said that his party "doesn't do media training", quipping: "Our media training is we go to the pub."

Co**burn did not deny that some U-KIP candidates have said controversial comments, adding: "We can always rely on our lunatic fringe to say something silly. Nigel says it's like herding cats!"

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