UKIP's new 'Project Fact' Battlebus pitched up in Worcester yesterday - where its party hierarchy genuinely struggled to find anyone willing to back Remain.

But even that couldn't please UKIP deputy leader Paul Nuttall, with the city visit coinciding with the first 45 minutes of the England v Wales footy clash.

The affable chap, famously nicknamed 'The Godfather' by his native Liverpool Echo, spent much of the time cursing and scowling at the sorry scoreline as England trailed.

Anguish-stricken, he sighed: "We're going out of the EU at the referendum, but I also fear we're going out the Euros."

It didn't end so bad, eh.

* WEST Midlands MEP Bill Etheridge loves visiting Worcester - not least because it drags him away from the often colourful personalities elsewhere on his patch.

The UKIP politician, also canvassing shoppers down the rain-soaked High Street yesterday, tells us of the time he went to Wolverhampton recently.

"I was at Bilston market campaigning about the EU referendum and absolutely everyone, I kid you not, was supporting us," he said.

"But they didn't just back Leave, they were actually all chanting 'we want out' as we walked along, pumping their fists."

* AMONG the happy faces at yesterday's UKIP campaign was city-based MEP James 'Jim' Carver - and not just because they'd touched up his face on the Battlebus well.

Jim happens to be a huge West Ham United fan and gambled a small amount of cash on Hammers winger Dimitri Payet, one of Euro 2016's star players, scoring on Wednesday night.

The French powerhouse found the net in the 95th minute, bringing him a nice little earner.

"It was my first bet since last year's General Election," he said.

* THE outside of UKIP's 'Project Fact' bus startled many passers-by - but you had to see the inside to believe it.

Yours truly was handed an exclusive peek inside Nigel Farage's new lair yesterday, with its travelling pack able to live in perfect luxury.

The two-tier bus features rows of cosy bunk beds, flooring and furnishing so clean you could eat off it, and best of all a spotless, leather-decked relaxation area.

"It's not bad, is it," said one activist in the understatement of the year.

* WOULDN'T it be funny if this crazy, spectacularly messy referendum was so tight that it was ultimately decided by the few hundred who registered at the very last moment?

In this writer's opinion, anyone who believes 11.57pm is a sensible time to start registering for a midnight cut-off, should not be trusted tying their own shoelaces, let alone a vote.

It'd be like letting lunatics run the asylum.