Question time tonight should've been renamed the Nigel Farage show. To be honest a think he speaks a lot of sense....he's wide open to critics and abuse because he does what no other leader does......HE SAYS HOW IT IS
Only if you agree with what he says, if you dont agree, then it`s not how it is ! He is a tedious obnoxious **** ! How he gets on Question Time so often is feckinf annoying !
My politics knowledge probably isnt strong enough to engage full scale debate but can someone explain why there's so much hatred towards him? If he's a fcukwit then what are/were the other leaders?? He just appears to me as a bloke who's been targeted because he's a tad different from the norm
Its simple really, he's on the right which makes him evil and the millions who voted for him are all racist.
I also think (inho) because he has strong views on immigration, this is more than often deemed racist and therefore people will often dismiss anything he has to say, regardless of its content.
I’m one of those disillusioned Labour voters who switched to UKIP this time. I could relate more to the UKIP agenda at the last election than any other party. Most, not all, of what they proposed, I agreed with. But instead of sticking to the main topics Farage started talking about HIV patients from abroad and also saying that the BBC should stop making entertainment programmes. That’s just playing straight into the hands of UKIPs opposition. So all in all it was a poor campaign by Farage. But even then – he still managed to get 13% of the vote with nearly 4 million votes. UKIP are now saying that it was the SNP fear factor that swung voters away from UKIP into voting for the Tories. Personally I would like to see someone else take over the lead at UKIP.
Farage didn't win anything, not even the seat he was running for. Other UKIP candidates won plenty of votes though, and it's those votes and the huge SNP victory in Scotland that have given us another 5 year of Tory basterdship. Oh, and the Lib Dem voters turning to Tories too. Bizarre. And would have been very different had Labour had a credible leader. They had Ed Miliband.
I hope someone else takes over because if they do UKIP will die on its arse. It won a lot of votes by virtue of Farage being charismatic. Much as I dislike the bloke and his policies, he speaks well and did well to position himself as the man saying "what everyone thinks but no-one is saying." If he goes and they get some generic Tory-a-like in his place the party will fade into oblivion.
Lots of stick being given to Nigel Farage..........which is easy to do - IF YOU ARE NOT PROPOSING AN ALTERNATIVE So for those having an easy dig at Farage - who do you think was a better leader of the major parties in the last election And remember - if you don't vote then you really shouldn't have an opinion Mrs Krankie? Cameron? Miliband? Clegg?
Well unfortunately Cameron got the biggest share of the vote and no one not even his own party gave him a chance of getting a majority government. Nige isn't even the best leader in his own party there's the scouse bloke and that ex BBC reporter lass that come across better than him . The Tories tactics worked better than anyones Millibland nice bloke but publicly unelectable as a leader
Farage comes across really well – he speaks eloquently, he is passionate. Of that I will not disagree. The problem is that I disagree with most of his policies. I do think he is an hypocrite – anti-EU but happy to take a pay check from the EU, his party take funding from the EU, he said he would resign – the fact that the members pleaded with him to stay is irrelevant, why not insist on a leadership ballot, give it a month or 2 and if nobody else puts themselves forward then he wins unopposed. He said a week or 2 before the election that he was boycotting the BBC – since then I’ve seen him on BBC1 in a 30 minute question and answer session with a studio audience, an interview on the Andrew Marr show, and on last night’s Question Time.
He gets on the TV so much because if you point a camera at him he is always likely to say something shocking. Like Katy Hopkins. UKIP need him to step down. He was right - he can't credibly lead the party from outside the Commons. Douglas Carswell would take the UKIP group and refine them - take steps to marginalise the lunatic fringe, and step away from the personality cult of Farage. All the stupid homophobic, breast feeding mothers, HIV jibes - all the stupid **** he has said about Romanians, and immigrants causing traffic congestion - if they want to be credible they have to move on. For me Farage has taken them as far as he can. And besides - there is going to be an in/out referendum - presumably UKIP will respect the views of the majority, will they cease to have any point after that (one way or the other)? I think that UKIP are a nasty party as they stand - they have scrounged their votes from fear politics, ignorance, racism, and bigotry. There is a debate about European membership that doesn't involve intolerance, and is a mature economic and social conversation. You are not going to get that with Farage running UKIP because he will always find a way to drag the whole thing back into the pub with his frankly disgusting out-moded views.
