Nigel Farage: Ukip's controversial politicians have all defected from the Conservatives Responding to seperate criticism of previous Ukip policies Mr Farage said his party's 2010 manifesto was "drivel" written by an "idiot" who has now left to join the Conservatives. Ukip will now be standing in the European elections in May without a manifesto and with all its policies under review. Mr Farage said: "It was basically a series of policy discussion papers that was put up on the website as a manifesto, it was 486 pages long. I'm pleased to say that the idiot who wrote it has now left us and joined the Conservatives. So there is some traffic going the other way. They are very welcome to him. However Mr Farage co-authored the foreword to the manifesto and helped launch it in 2010. Mr Farage also appeared to defend the former Ukip councillor, David Silvester, who said that "beset by storms" since the passage of the new law on gay marriage because David Cameron had acted "arrogantly against the Gospel." The Ukip leader, speaking the LBC Radio, said the only reason that the councillor had attracted widespread publicity and criticism was because he was a member of Ukip. He said: "This councillor who talked about the weather when he was Tory councillor in 2012 he said exactly the same thing, he said because of gay marriage there will be disasters of biblical proportions because of our weather." He added: "We have got the situation where the voluntary side of the Ukip party is being put under the kind of scrutiny that has never happened to any political party in this country and why? Because were threaten the establishment.