Patrick O'Flynn
Patrick James O'Flynn (an haife shi 29 ga wayan Agusta 1965) ɗan jaridar Turai ne kuma ɗan siyasan Social Democratic Party (SDP) wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin Memba na Majalisar Tarayyar Turai (MEP) na Gabashin Ingila daga 2014 zuwa 2019. An zabe shi a jam’iyyar Independence Party (UKIP) amma ya kaura zuwa SDP a watan Nuwamba 2018. Tun 2019 ya yi rubutu akai-akai don The Spectator.

Kuruciy da aikin jarida 
O'Flynn ya karanta economics a Kwalejin King, Cambridge, ya kuma kammala karatunsa a 1987. Daga baya ya sami digiri a aikin jarida daga jami'ar, City, University of London. Sannan ya yi aiki a matsayin babban mai sharhi kan harkokin siyasa sannan kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin editan siyasa a Daily Express.

Siyasa 
O'Flynn shine mai magana da yawun Jam'iyyar Independence da ke Burtaniya akan tattalin arziki har zuwa 19 ga Mayu 2015.

Ya kasance dan takarar UKIP a Cambridge a babban zabe a 2015 kuma ya zo na biyar, da kashi 5.2 na kuri'un.  Bayan haka ya bayyana shugaban UKIP, Nigel Farage a matsayin "mai takura, mai siririn halita kuma mai zafin rai". 

O'Flynn ya kasance abokin takarar Lisa Duffy a zaben shugabancin jam'iyyar Independence na Burtaniya na Satumba 2016. Ya bar kujerar UKIP a watan Yulin 2017, yana mai imani cewa jam’iyyar ta daina goyon bayan manufofinsa na tattalin arziki. Ya koma jam’iyyar SDP a watan Nuwamban 2018. Ya bayar da misali da nadin da shugaban UKIP Gerard Batten ya yi wa Tommy Robinson (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) a matsayin mai ba shi shawara a matsayin babban dalilin ficewar sa daga jam'iyyar. Kamar yadda ya fada game da shawararsa ta shiga jam'iyyar SDP: "Kamar wasu da yawa a cikin reshen jam'iyyar [UKIP], na yanke shawarar shiga jam'iyyar SDP mai fafutuka, wacce ta yi yakin neman Brexit a lokacin zaben raba gardama kuma tana da fa'ida mai matsakaicin ra'ayi na siyasa na jihar. Ni - kuma na yi imani da yawa daga cikin masu jefa kuri'a daga 2014 - za su yi farin cikin amincewa."  A cikin sauya sheka, O'Flynn ya zama MEP na farko da ya zauna a Majalisar Turai don SDP (ko da yake a cikin 1984 Michael Gallagher MEP ya koma SDP na asali ).

O'Flynn ya tsaya a matsayin dan takarar jam'iyyar SDP a zaben fidda gwani na Peterborough na 2019,  amma ya samu kuri'u 135 (0.4%) kacal, kuma ya sha kayi a hannun Lisa Forbes. O'Flynn da kyar ya kauce wa maimaita sakamakon zaben maye gurbin na 1990 wanda Bootle ta hanyar doke dan takarar Monster Raving Loony Party, wanda ya jefa kuri'a 112. 

A watan Afrilun 2021 O'Flynn ya fara Snap, Shirin podcast tare da Michael Heaver.

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