Nigel Farage Withdraws His Resignation!

[Jomlett]

Nigel Farage tendered his official resignation as leader of Ukip to the NEC. This offer was unanimously rejected by the NEC members who produced overwhelmingly evidence that the Ukip membership did not want Nigel to go!

[Gromit]

He said he would resign and he kept his word. But he remains leader. Sounds like a bit of a ruse.

[jourdain2]

I think he was really looking forward to a break, he looks very tired.

[ichkeria]

He's been embarrassing for years but a lot less embarrassing than any of his potential replacements so I guess once he said he might 'unresign' later then there was only going to be one outcome

[askyourgran]

I rather like him, he stood up and said what a lot of people were afraid to say and that is why he attracted the votes. Cameron has to keep his promises now to sort out the immigration problem, the EU referendum and the National debt, or more will defect to UKIP. I'm glad he's staying.

[tamaris]

I like Nigel Farage, he has more backbone than the other spineless MP's put together.

[Ellipsis]

methyl, I think he takes great delight in showing what a gravy train it is to be an MEP ...

[mikey4444]

Marshwarble...Farage has been presiding over a Party full of loonies and misfits, and failed to get more than one MP into Westminster.....isn't that embarrassing enough ?

[youngmafbog]

Mickey, Farage polled more votes than the lib dems and SNP put together.

Hardly unpopular is he?

[naomi24]

youngmafbog, don't burst his bubble. :o)

[Gromit]

It is always a bad sign that when a party leader goes, there is no obvious heir apparant.
Not just UKIP, the next Labour Leader is not obvious (probably Cooper). The choice on offer for Labour is a very poor bunch. At least if Cameron had gone, there would have been a queue for his job.

[Svejk]

Mikey will have to change his tone when the Labour Party pinch all the UKIP policies and present them as their own.
Watch this space.

[naomi24]

//the next Labour Leader is not obvious (probably Cooper). //

Heaven help Labour! They hurtle from one disaster to the next! Dreadful woman!!

[Zacs-Master]

Would Labour appoint a Scottish born MP in the present political climate?

[TWR]

Whatever the UK Public think about this bloke he has made the Politicians think, there is a problem, No- One is addressing the Problem, the problem was the Polish / Romains & the Eastern Block, but with the influx of boat people from Africa arriving in Italy, the problem is going to get bigger as the EU in their wisdom have come out with Quotas for EU Country's, have you got a spare bedroom or two, this will save you paying the Bedroom Tax.

[Khandro]

Farage and UKIP received 4 million votes, (one of them mine), more than the amount of eligible voters in Scotland, who gained 56 seats, and UKIP gained just one. How fair is that?

Farage is a real breath of fresh air and scares the complacent pants of all the other Westminster layabouts, that is why such are gargantuan effort was made by the Tories in Thanet to ensure every possible vote for themselves by ferrying the infirm and elderly to the polling stations - quite legal of course, but a clear demonstration of cowardice.

[steg]

It's fair because every party had the same chance of winning each seat ,the SNP only contested 59 seats and won 56 of them where as ukip contested hundreds and lost them all but one. The voting system is the same as we have had for ? A very long time. No one complained when last election when labour won over 40 of the same seats the SNP won this time round

[bhg481]

It doesn't have to be fair; it has to be the voting system that the people want because we live in a democracy. It's the system we chose 5 years ago.
Shipping the elderly and infirm to the polling stations doesn't prove cowardice, it proves a willingness to work for their beliefs. Why didn't UKIP do this?