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Would Nigel Farage's Boozy Image Affect His Chances Of Becoming Deputy Pm?
People are talking of UKIP as a junior partner in a coalition making Farage Deputy Prime Minister. Would he have to curb his drinking to take office? He admits to being a boozer, others say he is an alcoholic. Would he be a fit person to run the Country when the PM was away?
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Punchy Prescott preferred to stay at Dorney Wood playing croquet and never set foot in the London whilst the prime minister was away dealing with crisis talks and we had Kinnock the clown and boozy Brown. I'm sure Mr Farage would be more than capable of deputising for the Prime Minister. At least Mr Farage dresses the part of a serious politician and takes politics seriously unlike the aforementioned trio of misfits.
Farages's boozy image is the least of his problems surely ? He is the Leader of a Party that has a history of having "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" as Members and Candidates. I'm not sure if the fact that he is a smoker and a drinker can make much difference either way.
How much worse can it get ?
How much worse can it get ?
Nick Farage is what you get - no 'image', that's him, that's why his uncontrolled 'mouth' sometimes gets him into trouble. His down to earth glass of beer in hand, sometimes 'loose cannon' attitude is what will endear him to those voters sick of greasy, insincere, politicians who say what the spin-doctors tell them to. And a lot of those voters will be ex Labour.
No he would completely unfit.
He's an idiot. Or at least, a populist control freak.
He has shown a complete lack of any sort of insight into what it takes to be a serious politician.
I watched him yesterday grandstanding about sacking NHS employees who did not speak English properly, and then trying to justify his position by making the much more valid point that it is a disgrace that we don't train enough English-speaking health workers.
Unfortunately I suspect the first sound bite is what matters most to him, but unless he stops playing the xenophobic card his party will never make the breakthrough it needs. Playing to a small gallery won't wash I'm afraid
He's an idiot. Or at least, a populist control freak.
He has shown a complete lack of any sort of insight into what it takes to be a serious politician.
I watched him yesterday grandstanding about sacking NHS employees who did not speak English properly, and then trying to justify his position by making the much more valid point that it is a disgrace that we don't train enough English-speaking health workers.
Unfortunately I suspect the first sound bite is what matters most to him, but unless he stops playing the xenophobic card his party will never make the breakthrough it needs. Playing to a small gallery won't wash I'm afraid
I'm often intrigued by the term 'alcoholic' in these instances.
When I hear colleagues in work fretting and discussing the amount they drink they always refer to themselves as having become an alcoholic.
If that's the case, roughly 80% of my colleagues are alcoholic!
As Ed says, I daresay they all like a drink, Farage is just happy for people to see that he does, whilst the others wouldn't be seen dead with a glass in their hands.
When I hear colleagues in work fretting and discussing the amount they drink they always refer to themselves as having become an alcoholic.
If that's the case, roughly 80% of my colleagues are alcoholic!
As Ed says, I daresay they all like a drink, Farage is just happy for people to see that he does, whilst the others wouldn't be seen dead with a glass in their hands.
Not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse there svejk but my point is that Farage continually makes eye - or ear-catching statements such as dismissing health workers whose English is not up to scratch, clearing the motorways of immigrants etc etc and only backs it up with more serious stuff as an afterthought. The exact opposite of that he should be doing. Of course in the unlikely event he ever got the chance he would not start sacking health workers before addressing the issue of that the hell do you do after you've done it. And therefore he shows himself to be a complete fraud
His drinking habits are a complete irrelevance. Didn't Churchill win the war while pickled/high/wreathed in cigar smoke?
His drinking habits are a complete irrelevance. Didn't Churchill win the war while pickled/high/wreathed in cigar smoke?
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