Lets have this on record here?

I don't like Farage (I'll say why in a mo) but even so I really felt for the poor chap to see him in the wreckage of that plane and didn't think they should have been filming or taking photos when he was obviously severely shocked and badly injured.

Now the reason I don't care for him as a politician is that he's got no class, I wouldn't go quite as far to say he's  riff-raff but he doesn't conduct himself well. You just don't see people of class mixing it in boozers like he does and it looks like he drinks far too much. Remember he'd been hit by a car after "a night out"?

The way he acts and the things he says are not the way to go on if you're a top-line politician. Saying that someone has the "charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of low grade bank clerk" isn't the sort of language a supposed Leader uses particularly in a place where some adherence to protocol and a degree of politeness is expected.

That he said he'd resign as leader of UKIP if he didn't win a (yet another) seat and then U-turns and stays on shows that he's not a man of his word. He had no need to say he'd resign in the first place and that he hung on to that for so long, it shows a complete lack of integrity to back out of it after a couple of days. Using the excuse that the ruling body of UKIP "wouldn't let him resign" and that he had "phenomenal support" doesn't wash. He should have kept his word.

Trying to act like "one of the lads" in umpteen pubs with a glass of beer in hand is most unbecoming for a "Leader"too.