When Nigel Farage needs a break he heads out to sea. On Saturday, after 24 hours of wall-to-wall media appearances he drove to the south coast and went fishing in the Channel with friends. It was the only place he could be sure of being out of mobile phone contact.
"I turn the bugger off," he told the Observer. "It clears the head. When I am out there I don't think about anything except what bait to use, what lure to use and why some other bloke is catching more than me. It makes me get very competitive again."
Farage was briefly cutting himself adrift from politics after his party, Ukip, had stirred up the waters as never before by securing a stunning 23% of the vote in Thursday's local elections. Farage had predicted that Ukip would take at least 14% a couple of weeks ago, which many had thought was wildly optimistic.
But it exceeded his wildest dreams, increasing its number of council seats from eight to 147 overnight, eating into the Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat support across the country and redrawing the local government map. For the first time ever, none of the mainstream parties took more than the 30% of the vote. Labour secured 29%, the Tories 25% and the Lib Dems 14%. Nothing like it had happened before. Full story...
Related posts:
"I turn the bugger off," he told the Observer. "It clears the head. When I am out there I don't think about anything except what bait to use, what lure to use and why some other bloke is catching more than me. It makes me get very competitive again."
Farage was briefly cutting himself adrift from politics after his party, Ukip, had stirred up the waters as never before by securing a stunning 23% of the vote in Thursday's local elections. Farage had predicted that Ukip would take at least 14% a couple of weeks ago, which many had thought was wildly optimistic.
But it exceeded his wildest dreams, increasing its number of council seats from eight to 147 overnight, eating into the Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat support across the country and redrawing the local government map. For the first time ever, none of the mainstream parties took more than the 30% of the vote. Labour secured 29%, the Tories 25% and the Lib Dems 14%. Nothing like it had happened before. Full story...
Related posts:
- Clowns no more, jubilant Ukip are on the march...
- Nigel Farage: Leaders utterly unplugged from thoughts & hopes of ordinary people...
- Nigel Farage destroys Barroso's State of the European Union...
- Nigel Farage: the Eurozone is a ponzi scheme run by communists...
- Farage: Break up the Euro, restore democracy and human dignity...
- Ukip leader Nigel Farage in his own words...
- Nigel Farage: EU's common criminals and communists...
No comments:
Post a Comment