Ukip causes Premier League clash with choice of new logo

Ukip has ditched its longstanding yellow and purple pound logo for one featuring the head of a lion that critics say looks similar to the emblem for the Premier League.
The lion logo was chosen by Ukip members at the party’s annual conference in Torquay. It is accompanied by the text, “Ukip, for the nation”.
Steve Crowther, Ukip’s interim leader until a full-time replacement for Paul Nuttall is announced on Friday afternoon, said the two logos had been agreed by the party’s national executive.
The lack of a pound symbol brought some boos and shouts from the audience, but Crowther said it was time to modernise the party’s message in the wake of the Brexit referendum.
However, the similarity of the new logo to that of the Premier League was immediately noted by some.
Gary Lineker retweeted the new logo with an eye-rolling emoji and the message: “The Premier League will be thrilled.”
The @premierleague will be thrilled. 🙄 https://t.co/GWXBcjL5vH
A spokesman for the Premier League said it had seen the new logo and was deciding whether it should comment.
A Ukip spokesman said the party had checked and was certain the new logo did not infringe copyright.
In a speech to the conference, Crowther said Nigel Farage, the party’s former leader and key figure, would not consider returning to the post.
He said: “Now we face a new challenge to prove that we have a future post-Brexit and post-Farage.
“If we can’t create a dynamic and attractive political party without him at the helm we don’t deserve to call ourselves a political party.”
The new leader will be announced at about 5pm on Friday from a seven-strong candidate list in what is forecast to be an extremely tight race.

One of the favourites, Anne Marie Waters, could badly split Ukip is she wins. Several insider say they fear such a tight contest could favour the limited but fervent support base of Waters, whose pitch is largely based on her extreme views on Islam, a faith she has described as “evil”.
Waters, a co-founder of the UK branch of the anti-Islam group Pegida, is open about her ambition to move the party to a form of cultural nationalism based around religious intolerance.
She has close links to the far right and has received help in her campaign from Jack Buckby, formerly a prominent member of the British National party, who has spent time in the openly racist group Liberty GB.
Other favourites include London Assembly members Peter Whittle and David Kurten, and former solider Henry Bolton.
Some senior figures at the party conference said they believed the race was likely to come down to a contest between Waters and Whittle.
The new leader will be the party’s fourth inside a year. Under Nuttall’s six-month tenure the party won fewer than 600,000 votes in the general election in June, against almost 4m in 2015.

SOURCE : GUARDIAN SPORTS
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