Nigel Farage 'frightened' to go outside as UKIP is 'demonised'

Nigel Farage has said he is "frightened of walking out into the street" because of the way UKIP has been presented by the British press.

The former party leader told ITV's Piers Morgan's Life Stories that the media has for years "attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name".

He also refused to rule out a return to politics, saying "anything can happen".

Mr Farage recently dodged an egg while campaigning in Stoke Central, where UKIP placed second in a by-election.

In his interview with Morgan, Mr Farage said that he lives as a "virtual prisoner" because the press has "picked out" more controversial UKIP members in an attempt to discredit the party.

"It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation," he said.

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Scot Dutchy wrote:Poor old Nige, he is frightened to go outside. People are realising all the lies he told them.

Nigel Farage 'frightened' to go outside as UKIP is 'demonised'

Nigel Farage has said he is "frightened of walking out into the street" because of the way UKIP has been presented by the British press.

The former party leader told ITV's Piers Morgan's Life Stories that the media has for years "attempted to demonise me and give me a bad name".

He also refused to rule out a return to politics, saying "anything can happen".

Mr Farage recently dodged an egg while campaigning in Stoke Central, where UKIP placed second in a by-election.

In his interview with Morgan, Mr Farage said that he lives as a "virtual prisoner" because the press has "picked out" more controversial UKIP members in an attempt to discredit the party.

"It is because of these irrelevant people, who held no position, they happened to join an organisation," he said.

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What does he expect?

Keep It Real wrote:Anybody know ukips stance on anthropegenic global warming?

Keep It Real wrote:Anybody know ukips stance on anthropegenic global warming?

Nigel Farage labels Ukip MP Douglas Carswell a 'Tory party posh boy'

Former leader says party would be better off without its only MP, who has been called to meet chair amid knighthood row

Ukip has descended into an open battle over its future direction after the former leader, Nigel Farage, called the party’s sole MP, Douglas Carswell, a “Tory party posh boy” who was afraid of talking about immigration and should be expelled.

With tensions high between various factions in the party after the new leader, Paul Nuttall, failed to win last week’s Stoke-on-Trent Central byelection, Carswell was called to meet the Ukip chair, Paul Oakden, on Tuesday afternoon, a Ukip spokesman said.

It is likely that Carswell, a Conservative defector who represents Clacton, will be challenged about reports that he mocked Farage about the possibility of getting a knighthood in exchanges that were leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
Speaking at an event on post-Brexit fisheries policy in Westminster, Farage said Carswell had “tried to undermine” him when he was leader, and was doing the same to Nuttall.

“Quite central to the Stoke byelection is what kind of policy are we fighting on,” Farage told reporters after the event.

“Quite why Douglas Carswell joined the party, when he disagrees with all their main policies, on all their key personnel, I don’t know. But I do think if the party was freed of him then Paul would be able to lead the party unencumbered.”

Farage said Carswell had sought to stop Ukip talking about immigration during the EU referendum campaign.

“These sort of Tory party posh boys, who don’t like to discuss immigration – you might not get invited to the right dinner parties [if you do] – they wanted to fight the referendum without discussion of the issue,” Farage said.

“They were 180 degrees wrong on that. It’s because we did fight on that issue that we got a turnout of nearly 73%, and people voted who had never voted in their lives.

“His strategy was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. Ukip owns the immigration issue.”

Adding to the chaos, Arron Banks, the businessman who was Ukip’s biggest donor, tweeted to say he planned to stand against Carswell at the next election. “Ukip MP or not, I’ll stand against him in Clacton next election!” Banks said.

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Knight night.

ronmcd wrote:Carswell's reaction to the kerfuffle was to say this last night on twitter:

Knight night.

Alan B wrote:Farage is a self-opinionated wanker who's ideas are out of touch with the majority and he's too thick to see it. He's incapable of understanding any other point of view except his own. He's a nobody with a big mouth.

You do not confer Honours on people like that.

CarlPierce wrote:Imagine if they had two mps....

CarlPierce wrote:Imagine if they had two mps.....then we
could finally have a real scrap in the commons.