The infamously violent former Warden of the North had the six others in competition for the leadership violently murdered at the UKIP autumn conference in Torquay; including Anne Marie Waters, an anti-Dothraki candidate, whose prospect of election was the subject of huge internal division.

Much like the Iron throne of Westros, this is the fifth time there has been a change of UKIP leadership in 11 months.

In his victory speech, Mr Bolton said he wanted the UK to become a “prosperous nation” and one that would “Crush its enemies like a child’s bones under a war horse’s hoof”.

Former leader Nigel Farage declared after the result “Seeing what he did to the Greyjoy boy, I’d vote for him just in case of reprisals… I don’t think I’ll ever eat a sausage again either.”

Asked at a press conference after the result was announced whether this made him an “establishment mole”, Bolton said his background made him ready for the job. “I was brought up a bastard and became so in both name and nature. I’ve never really done what the establishment approved of; be castrating and dominating my prisoners, or killing my own father and his pregnant wife.”

There was much shock and anger at the slaughter of candidates in the opening minutes of the autumn conference; with many in attendance being cut down by bolts fired by crossbow men hidden in the light rigging.

Ms Waters’ supporters were said to be “positively mutinous” after she was torn apart by hounds moments before Ramsay accepted the leadership position.

But Mr Bolton told the Rochdale Herald “Whether they want to stay or leave, that’s up to them; they’ll be flayed alive on a cross at dawn one way or the other.”

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