Stop Press...farage Isn't Going To Stand In Newark !

[mikey4444]

Just heard on the radio...he isn't going to stand after all !

Seems a sensible decision to me.

[Baldric]

Are you saying
///public school educated bankers///
don't go to the Pub then?
I'd better tell the pair that use our local on the seafront they're doing it all wrong!

[Gromit]

The persona Farage likes to portray is that of just just an ordinary bloke. Someone you would meet the street or down the pub. This is reinforced by doing a party election broadcast from a pub. Of course bankers frequent pubs, but are not the typical clientel.

[mikey4444]

Perhaps he will stand against the Speaker again gromit...he thought it was a good idea last time. I seem to remember he got a bloody nose in 2010 though.

[jomifl]

Glad you understood my point Gromit.

[jomifl]

http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/puzzle-of-ukip-leader-nigel-farages-offshore-trust/2632

[Orderlimit]

"Glad you understood my point Gromit"

I still don't get it jomifl, please would you explain (soz, I'm not that bright).

[ChillDoubt]

For someone who is head of a 'minor political party' he's garnering a serious amount of attention from the pinko's!

Just what IS their fascination/pre-occupation with him?

[jomifl]

Ol, The 'guy down the pub' is the vernacular equivalent of the 'man on the clapham omnibus'.
Having been to a public school and made a pile as a commodity trader and having an offshore trust to avoid paying UK tax suggests that he isn't a 'guy down the pub'.
Baldric, at no time did I say that bankers don't use pubs.

[jomifl]

Cd, I suspect the fascination is with his ability to pull the wool over the eyes of a lot of the electorate. But then Tony Blair did the same so nothing new there.

[mikey4444]

But Tony Blair won three consecutive elections for the Labour Party Farage doesn't even have any MPs....a big difference surely?

[jomifl]

Mikey the wool pulling precedes the election victories. I'm saddened that the electorate is so naive and gullible.,