Archive for nigel farage
Another week, another round of nasty comments by UKIP councillors and officials
From the Sunday Mirror: Ukip’s Chris Pain, leader of the opposition at Lincs Council and the party’s East Midlands regional chairman, wrote: “Have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in ‘illegal immigrants’, and add just a few more letters, it spells, ‘Go home you free-loading, benefit-grabbing, resource-sucking, baby-making, non-English-speaking ********* and take those [...]
Joint tickets: how the Cooperative Party has ended up helping Nigel Farage
UKIP’s Nigel Farage is having fun in the media speculating about joint UKIP-Tory or UKIP-Labour candidates at the next general election. I suspect that, as with touted defections, the more publicity there is the less likely it is to happen – as when serious behind the scenes talks are happening, publicity is not wanted. It’s [...]
Each time I hear about Nigel Farage, I puzzle about Caroline Lucas
Nigel Farage is certainly the protest vote leader of choice at the moment. It’s not a surprise that there should be such a person, nor even that it’s not the Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. After all Lib Dem leaders have often had that role in the past. But that it’s UKIP highlights the failures [...]
+++ Neck and neck: first Eastleigh constituency poll
1st Eastleigh poll puts Con + LDs within margin of error: C34 LD31 Lab 19 UKIP 13 (Ashcroft poll) — Mark Pack (@markpack) February 7, 2013 That 3 point gap is within the margin of error on the poll, and so it is, as they say in the US about such results, a statistical dead-heat. [...]
Someone isn’t very keen on Nigel Farage
Guy Verhofstadt MEP likes waving hands, doesn’t like Nigel Farage:
Flying Free: Nigel Farage’s account of his own life
Events and the political calendar are likely to keep UKIP as one of the most prominent ‘other’ political parties in the UK over the next few years, making this newly revised and expanded autobiography of its most high-profile and flamboyant personality, Nigel Farage, timely not only for the party’s own fans but for anyone else [...]
Daily View 2×2: 4 April 2010 with special beard and moustache feature
It’s Sunday. It’s 9am. It’s time for beards. And moustaches. But first the news.
2 Must-Read Blog Posts
What are other Liberal Democrat bloggers saying? Here are two posts that have caught the eye from the Liberal Democrat Blogs aggregator:
Bravo to Nigel Farage on drugs policy – Mark Thompson praises the UKIP man’s approach to drugs
Where have [...]
UKIP expel MEP in dispute over ‘extremist’ links
This week The Times reported of Nikki Sinclaire:
The UK Independence Party has expelled one of its MEPs after she refused to sit with its right-wing Italian allies in the European Parliament and fell out with former leader Nigel Farage…
Ms Sinclaire, 41, an MEP for the West Midlands, insisted that she wanted to stay with the [...]
