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LOL, how low can the BBC go? Thought he was a Stripey Nigel.
"I'm UKIP and Millwall," a man in Ramsgate told Nigel Farage today.

The UKIP leader laughed appreciatively.

He knows what the fans at The Den chant: "No one likes us. We don't care."

When I ask Mr Farage whether his party was becoming the Millwall of British politics, he laughed and said: "Perhaps we are the Millwall... I think in Westminster we're loathed and feared."

He was feeling defiant the day after appearing to say he'd been wrong to say that people were right to be worried if a group of Romanians moved next door.

On a half dozen occasions in an interview I gave him the opportunity to apologise, but he refused.

It was only when I asked him if it would be right to say that you should be worried if Nigerians or Jamaicans or Irish people were your neighbours that his position started to shift.

'Under the carpet'
People, I reminded him, had once put up sign saying "No blacks, no Irish here". So was he saying "No Romanians?"

It was then that the apology came: "If I gave the impression in that interview that I was discriminating against Romanians then I apologise certainly for that."

His case is that he has been right to point out that the UK's borders are open, right to say that even criminals can come here and right to say that there is a particular problem with organised Romanian gangs

"I do not wish for people to feel in a discriminatory manner towards Romanians. But I do say there is a very real problem here, that everybody else has run away from, brushed under the carpet - the whole organised crime element and the impact that has had on London and other parts of the country. That is a serious issue."

So, what did he say he had been wrong to say last night? Simply the phrase "You know what the difference is", which he used in his interview with James O'Brien on LBC on Friday when he was asked about the difference between Germans living next door or Romanians.

"I am apologising for not taking the question full on and for giving the impression that by saying 'You know what I mean' there was somehow an agenda underneath."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27477374
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    Damn!
  • don't see this one lasting long...
  • Football + politics.
    All that is needed is religion and alcohol then this forum will explode.
  • Disgraceful from the BBC.
  • Someone ought to explain to Mr Farage that one of the objects of a political party is to attract POPULAR support.
  • Someone ought to explain to Mr Farage that one of the objects of a political party is to attract POPULAR support.

    He has done that, and the voting on Thursday will no doubt show it.

  • Croydon said:

    Someone ought to explain to Mr Farage that one of the objects of a political party is to attract POPULAR support.

    He has done that, and the voting on Thursday will no doubt show it.

    I think you are right, I know so many people who have sat up and taken notice of UKIP, and are voting for them. I think a lot of people in politics are rightly crapping themselves at the moment.
  • edited May 2014
    I think Nick Robinson is probably right.

    I'm getting ready to batten down the hatches from all those marauding OAP's who will be kicking off in the European Parliament, not only with their opponents, but no doubt with themselves, all coked up.

    On a serious note. If previous governments had done something to have controlled immigration, which could be accomodated by enough housing and public services, then UKIP wouldn't have risen to this level of popularity.

    What we got was the prime minister calling an elderly woman a bigot, because she raised concerns.
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  • Croydon said:

    Someone ought to explain to Mr Farage that one of the objects of a political party is to attract POPULAR support.

    He has done that, and the voting on Thursday will no doubt show it.

    Yeah and comparing his party to that particular football club is really going to help.... NOT
  • Im surprised Ukip don't get more love on here, after all it is a party built mainly of ex Tories
  • I'm still not commenting on this thread.
  • Damn damn damn damn!
  • I agree, they ain't for me but have to laugh at the hypocracy in the tone people aim at them.
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  • I wouldn't necessarily say going to Dulwich College makes you a man of the people...

    Agreed, but he appears refreshingly different.

  • It's odd how many people of a right-wing persuasion on here suddenly become decidedly socialist-minded when it concerns the subject of private education - something Socialists have opposed as a bourgeois concern for years.

    Perhaps if they could afford the fees or their children had a chance of passing the entrance exams they might think differently.
  • edited May 2014
    Mass Immigration has been a disaster for the poorest members of our society and the party that's supposed to represent these people have cynically encouraged it to swell its own voting base. I have very little time for any of the main political parties but I do hope that Labour in particular gets a huge kicking from its traditional supporters for abandoning their interests.
  • edited May 2014

    It's time for the people (us) to have a say again. It's time for UKIP. The Eton boys (irrespective of Party) have had a good innings but have lost touch with the Nation. They have prospered, we have watched. We vote them in on their promises and they have done what they like afterwards. I sincerely hope Nigel will do better - he speaks my language anyway. He's got my vote. I am happy to forgive him a few errors along the way so long as he pursues what is good for GB. After all, the bar has been set so low, it won't take much to lift it a few notches. (PS. I am not a racist; just very weary at the thought of more "helpings" of the same)

    UKIP’s current sitting MEP and now again candidate for South West England:

    William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Legge,_10th_Earl_of_Dartmouth

    "Early life
    Dartmouth is the eldest son of the 9th Earl of Dartmouth by his marriage to Raine McCorquodale, the daughter of romantic novelist Dame Barbara Cartland. Thus, he became a stepbrother of Diana, Princess of Wales upon his mother's second marriage to the 8th Earl Spencer.

    Education
    Dartmouth was educated at Eton before going up to Christ Church, Oxford (MA), where he was elected an officer of the Oxford University Conservative Association and later of the Oxford Union Society….He studied further at Harvard Business School, graduating as MBA……

    In June 2009, Dartmouth married Melbourne-born former model Fiona Campbell, now socially styled Lady Dartmouth,…whose first husband, Matt Handbury, is a nephew of Rupert Murdoch".

    Very anti-establishment..........


  • I hope he wins.
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