Has Nigel lost it?

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I am constantly surprised that his "I'm one of the lads with my pint and my fag" line convinces anyone. He's a very wealthy man with a public school background who is good at deceiving working class people that he has something in common with them (other than the pint and fag if that is the way they are inclined).
He has obviously annoyed some in the party who would like him to focus on getting us out of Europe, rather than banging on about pints, fags and immigrants. There would be just as many immigrants if we came out of the EU because the economy needs them. In fact there might be more, as the "points system" would allow in more well educated people from India etc than the present system does.

POGs I said in my op that I was surprised he resigned given the UKIP vote. He's in a very different category from Clegg and Milliband where it would have not been in the party's interest to have stayed on.

I never liked the man, for me he was just too 'hail fellow well met'. I am sure the reason his party had so many votes was because of the immigrant issue, something which touches us all, and I think a fair warning to whoever is in government that it is something we worry about. I am not sure that Farage on his own could solve the problem.

Granny Twice re your post 12.57 you make my point for me.

It is unusual for a resignation/standing down letter to be refused , it may alter by tomorrow who knows but at least he has a party that don't throw the man/woman they backed for 5 years under the bus. I quite like that.

I'm rather aghast at myself for feeling that he does have some sort of legitimacy, based on the millions of UKIP votes.

I think the events of the past weeks have taken their toll on me!

Do we care?

I have no idea what he had that he could have lost

POGs - it's very common across all parties for leaders to resign after an election defeat - standing by your man is unusual

I agree with whitewave

I liked his response that he always had a smile on his face and was photographed with a pint in his hand. It should probably have been the other way round, cause and effect.

Not entirely sure that he ever "had" it

But Clegg and Miliband at least have parties big enough to have some candidates, unlike UKIP, who could not find anyone to stand in his place.

Well I guess you can argue Labour did not stand by their man and refused to take Milibands resignation nor the Lib Dems tell Clegg to stay on so he is fairing better than them on an individual bases.

Forage at least has some in his party who would like him to stay on, unlike Labour and Lib Dems who's candidates for leader are all happily saying where Miliband and Clegg went wrong. That's politics for you.

Where is Natalie Bennett? Haven't seen or heard from her but I could have missed it.

He makes me laugh (in a good way)

I've never managed to see him as Hitler/Satan.

Nigel Farage comes across as a pussy cat compared to that nasty piece of work, Patrick O'Flynn.

I enjoyed NF on Question Time last night. He came over well, i.m.h.o.