Posted on 06/02/2013 6:40:56 AM PDT by UKrepublican
Going to the pub with Nigel Farage is very therapeutic. Within seconds of our drinks arriving, I realise I am telling him my troubles as we sit beneath an umbrella at a table in the street.
He is nodding sympathetically, sipping from a pint of beer and puffing on his trademark cigarette. As I offload my frustrations, he says all the right things. Before long, we are setting the world to rights and I catch myself thinking that I must tell Nigel about that problem I had with my local police because… Because what, exactly?
Farage has that indefinable quality that makes you believe he is interested in your problems and even that he might be able to put them right. But to be realistic, he can’t possibly put anything right, can he?
He’s the leader of a fringe party that, on the face of it, hasn’t a hope in hell of getting into power. Yet with the UK Independence Party hitting 19 per cent in the council election polls last month, people have started to sit up and take notice.
And they are now looking at its chirpy leader as someone who cannot be as easily dismissed as David Cameron would like.
Most surprising of all, given that Ukip was once a nerdish, male-dominated party, is the fact that Farage, 49, is becoming a hit with women. Indeed, it was apparently a late surge in the female vote that led to Ukip’s stellar performance in last month’s council elections.
A few weeks ago, I asked my circle of friends how they voted in the local elections and one glamorous, wealthy divorcee revealed she had voted Ukip, saying: ‘Nigel Farage is a straight talker. He isn’t surrounded by spin doctors. He’s a real man.’
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Best of luck. From what I’ve heard about him, he might be just what you say.
“He’s a real man.” Here endeth the lesson.
bttt
Ladies, keep in mind he’s married with 4 kids.
There is hope for England. Even if he never gets off the back bench he will influence the Tories to move to the right. He is as a breath of fresh air to English politics. You go Nigel! May there always be an England.
The trouble with conservative parties in Europe is that they get profoundly erudite and charismatic leaders, but those leaders don’t have subordinates that also can and do put on a good show.
Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage, were or are the faces of their parties. Without them, their parties fade away. Even though they are unified internally, even small parties need at least a half dozen spokesmen recognized and liked by the public.
Godfrey Bloom is a good spokesman but I doubt we will ever see him in a photo holding a pint surrounded by smiling ladies.
He is rather dapper.
Hm, I wonder if I’ve got any red socks?
The Red Tie. Don’t forget the Red Tie. ;)
One of the most interesting men in the world......
Yep. Ladies like real men.
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