Ukip's Nigel Farage is comparable to Jesus, the party's serial headline-grabber Winston McKenzie has suggested.

In a typically rambling interview, the former boxer revealed he had manufactured 2,000 badges of a fox designed to resemble the party's leader, forgot the name of one of Ukip's two MPs and broke into song about the coalition government.

The former Croydon North by-election and Croydon Council candidate, who infamously denounced his own constituency South Norwood as "a dump" two days before May's polls, also likens Mr Farage to Teflon and describes defecting Conservative MPs as "hens". 

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In the 25-minute video interview with Chat Politics, published online today, he says: "Jesus was one man. We are his army. Farage is one man, and we are his army."

He then displays a badge of fox in reference to Mr Farage's comments, following local election gains in May, that "the Ukip fox is in the Westminster hen-house”.

Mr McKenzie says: "This is the Ukip fox. It's made in the likelness of Mr Farage. I've sent him some samples. I'm having 2,000 of these manufactured at the present moment and I'm just going to put the word about.

"They keep on about the Ukip fox and the Ukip fox has entered the Houses of Parliament and as you can see there are feathers everywhere."

In a bizarre extension of the metaphor, Mr McKenzie then likens Ukip MPs Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless, who both defected from the Conservatives, to poultry.

He says: "We have brought two of the chickens, then hens. We brought the hens into our domain and they are doing very well.

He then adds: "Guys, I'm sorry. Douglas and the other guy. I'm not taking the mickey out of you, you're the world's greatest."

Mr McKenzie, who entered as a contestant on the X Factor in 2005, concludes the interview with a rendition of Hank Williams's Take These Chains From My Heart.

Watch the full interview: