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!
All that is needed is religion and alcohol then this forum will explode.
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.
The way people look down on UKIP voters as morons further marginalises them towards UKIP. These people are not invited in by mainstream parties.
Then there is the side that appeals to people that are not "racists, loonies and fruitcakes" and that is Farage the man himself. Look at the way he holds himself compared to the other major leaders, he doesn't spend 5 minutes stuttering and dancing round a question like the others do, but actually tells you his beliefs.
The ironic thing is that the more and more popular UKIP get because of Farage's "telling it like it is" individuality, the more he will have to airbrush himself, and tone himself down to be just like any other politician.
UKIP will win the European elections on Thursday, and it's Labour, Conservatives and Lib Dem's faults.
I ocmpletely disagree with you about Farage telling anyone his beliefs. He frefuses to. Do you know UKIP's policies on education, health, crime, transport, tax or anything other than the EU? You certainly do not, because UKIP won't divulge them and for purely cynical reasons, to avoid losing votes. Farage is an attractive personality in many ways - he has a sense of humour and he can take a joke. But just because he isn't a media trained automaton doesn't mean he's telling it like it is. On 95% of the issues that affect us, he's not telling it at all.
I wouldn't necessarily say going to Dulwich College makes you a man of the people...
Agreed, but he appears refreshingly different.
Perhaps if they could afford the fees or their children had a chance of passing the entrance exams they might think differently.
Even if you ignore the evoking the war dead for party political reasons this is a really crass poster.
Most of those graves are, in fact, French (the crosses) while the few Commonwealth graves to the right of the picture are quite possibly Canadian as the cemetery is near Vimy Ridge.
Percentage of Romanians in the UK in prison: 0.44%
Percentage of people who served as UKIP MEPs who were subsequently imprisoned: 9.1%
It's an odd stat with a few issues re sample size but it makes the point nicely, as UKIP produce dodgy and plain wrong stats on a regular basis to peddle their poison.
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..........