The only plans I want to make for Nigel in 2026 is for him to disappear |
To quote the new wave band, XTC, in its 1979 Top 20 hit, we’re all ‘making plans for Nigel’. Nigel Farage that is. But some of us, to quote the song lyrics again, do not ‘want what's best for him’ and so want to give him a ‘helping hand’ in that particular direction.
All this is because fairly frequently, Farage likes to present himself as a bit of a ‘man of people’, holding to his pint and fag persona while standing outside a Wetherspoons. Sometimes he looks more like a country squire in tweed with foxhounds at his feet or a City gent in a pinstriped suit. It all depends on who he’s speaking to and what he’s after. Of course, he cannot be all three and certainly the last two personas very much undermine the first. Indeed, Keir Starmer accused Farage of being a seller of ‘snake oil’. Equally appropriate would be a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ or just a fraud. So, let’s look at Nigel’s background before we prod some of his political pronouncements.
His dad was a stockbroker in the City of London and Farage decided to follow in his father’s footsteps by trading in commodities and metals. Before plying his trade there, Nigel spent seven years of un-hard labour being privately educated at the fee-paying Dulwich College. Former classmate Peter Ettedgui says a teenage Farage told him “Hitler was right” with around 20 contemporaries reportedly backing similar allegations. Farage has insisted he has "never directly racially abused anybody" and that it was no........