Nigel Farage
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Farage was injured in a plane crash in May 2010. This was due to the plane, a PZL-104 Wilga 35A for plane nerds, being an Eastern European immigrant. | Farage was injured in a plane crash in May 2010. This was due to the plane, a PZL-104 Wilga 35A for plane nerds, being an Eastern European immigrant. | ||
| − | Farage stood down as leader of UKIP to contest speaker John Bercow's safe Conservative seat of Buckingham, despite the long tradition that the Speaker stand unopposed. The effect of Farage standing was | + | Farage stood down as leader of UKIP to contest speaker John Bercow's safe Conservative seat of Buckingham, despite the long tradition that the Speaker stand unopposed. The effect of Farage standing was identical to Bercow standing unopposed. |
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
* [http://nigelfaragemep.co.uk/Farage's vanity site] | * [http://nigelfaragemep.co.uk/Farage's vanity site] | ||
* [http://www.ukip.org/ UKIP] if you want to, the lady's not for snoring | * [http://www.ukip.org/ UKIP] if you want to, the lady's not for snoring | ||
Revision as of 12:17, 12 November 2012
Nigel Farage MEP is believed to be the first physical embodiment of a Poe. He plays the part of a paranoid xenophobic bigot with such success that the spoof party he created, the UK Independence Party (UKIP), has actually garnered meaningful numbers of votes from British voters who consider themselves not quite racist enough to vote for the British National Party - this despite the obvious drawback of Farage permanently looking like a startled toad. UKIP is a backronym, the party is actually named for the stultifying dullness of its promotional output.
Farage was injured in a plane crash in May 2010. This was due to the plane, a PZL-104 Wilga 35A for plane nerds, being an Eastern European immigrant.
Farage stood down as leader of UKIP to contest speaker John Bercow's safe Conservative seat of Buckingham, despite the long tradition that the Speaker stand unopposed. The effect of Farage standing was identical to Bercow standing unopposed.
Sources
- vanity site
- UKIP if you want to, the lady's not for snoring