UKIP chairman Steve Crowther said in a statement: “As promised Nigel Farage tendered his official resignation as leader of UKIP to the NEC. This offer was unanimously rejected by the NEC members who produced overwhelming evidence that the UKIP membership did not want Nigel to go.
“He has therefore been persuaded by the NEC to withdraw his resignation and remains leader of UKIP,” the chairman added.
Hear Hear!
A standup individual, unlike that ex-Alberta PM whatever his name was.
Name? Alison Stelmach Prentice? That’s right, isn’t it?
Yes. Good on him to offer his resignation, and good on the party to say “no way!” Stay the course, Nigel. You’ll break through yet.
More honor with Farage than in the vast majority of politicos.
This is excellent news for a Monday morning! Good for Farage and good for his supporters. Someone with guts needs to be around to keep Cameron in check.
He did the honourable actions. However, for the rest of the world, he is the beacon of reason. I personally am relieved that he will remain the leader of UKIP.
Good, very good. He’s a great orator and considering he pulled 3rd in the popular vote he hit a chord that will only get stronger with the general public. He is also the only one that see’s the Muslim encroachment for what it is. Britain once ruled the world with only 22 countries that did not fly the British flag. All gone and only a small shadow of what it used to be. There is the very real possibility that unless they stop the Muslim siege, even that small shadow will disappear. I don’t see this as speculation. I see this as inevitable for any country that ignores history and does not stand up for its own defence or its own beliefs. Hopefully Farage is the turning point as it looks like it will be too late within another generation.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/13019/there-are-only-22-countries-world-british-haven%E2%80%99t-invaded
Far too late to achieve past glories, but for cryin’ out loud, hang on to the teeny bit you’ve got left.
Farage rocks. His speeches at the EU are absolutely priceless.
Additionally, UKIP support at 12% is above SNP support but because it’s widely spread it resulted in just one seat. Additionally, it was around 18% in some polling, I presume they lost support due to voters choosing to vote for a party that might win. So the UKIP support is not far away from breakthrough territory.
There is considerable that Farage has used UK IS as his own personal piggy bank. He can’t afford to let go in case his successor should be careless enough to hire competent individuals who might ask uncomfortable questions. The whole “resignation” was always going to be a carefully stage-managed sham. Next we’ll doubtless Farage state that the party he intends to turn the party into a more “professional” organisation which is what he says every time he is elected leader.
I assume the missing word in your first sentence is “evidence”. If that is correct, we’d love to know what you have.
Just go back and to kissing dizzy Lizzys behind. Farage has more honour than all you lefties combined.
As Larry said. Please provide a link to your assertion or be considered just another lefty troll. Rumours don’t do well here.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/05/09/farage-was-robbed-ukip-was-cheated-time-for-cameron-to-unite-the-right/
“Destroy Farage!” it often seemed was the single most important objective of their entire election strategy. Senior Tory after senior Tory was ordered into South Thanet to marshal the troops. Tame newspaper proprietors – who didn’t necessarily love Cameron but loathed and feared Miliband – co-operated by smearing UKIP with every desperate non-story they could trawl up and by dutifully trotting out the Lynton-Crosby-endorsed line that a vote for Farage was a vote for Miliband.
If Farage had been a weird lefty wonk or a rabid kilted nationalist or an eco-fascist loon this concerted campaign would have been understandable. But he’s not. As he’s shown time and again throughout his heroic campaign, he is a brave, decent, funny, likeable bloke who speaks his mind, has a good sense of humour and the common touch, and the kind of robust political principles – see the UKIP manifesto – with which the vast majority of Conservatives would agree wholeheartedly.
And still the Conservatives shafted him: far more viciously and determinedly, in fact, than they sought to shaft any of their true ideological enemies, whether Nicola Sturgeon, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband or Natalie Bennett. Why?
Well, of course, partly it was a Judaean People’s Front/Popular Front of Judaea thing: you always loathe those political rivals whose views accord most closely with your own. (Which is why the Nazis and the Communists so hated one another).
Partly too, it was straightforward Machiavellian commonsense. UKIP, by dividing the Tory party, had become an existential threat. Therefore UKIP had to be destroyed and the best way of achieving this was by decapitation.
It would appear that the ‘decapitation event’ has been rendered void…
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
I’m one of thousands of ex-UKIP members. I’ve seen the party operation up close and personal. It’s a shambles and it’s run for the express purpose of keeping Farage in comfort in Brussels. Check out http://www.eureferendum.com if you want to hear it from someone who worked closely with Farage.
Or look at it another way. Reform Party of Canada formed in 1987, elects MP in by-election in 1989 and fifty-two MPs in 1992, that is five years later. UKIP formed in 1993 (22 years ago) – how many Westminster seats do they have?
As for me being a socialist, give me break. I’m probably to the right if you. I remember when the comments section in this blog attracted intelligent comment and debate. Now it’s just an echo chamber for ignorant blowhards who can’t stand seeing their shibboleth questioned.
The Simón Bolívar approach: “I am a liberator, not a president.”
Crowd of delegates: “Please, mi general, you must be our president for life.”
SB: Very well, if you insist.
So Scotland has 59 seats? They might want to keep that over-representation quiet.
“It’s a shambles and it’s run for the express purpose of keeping Farage in comfort in Brussels.”
There is nothing in that link, which is a personal opinion, that implies what you state. As one of the ignorant blowhards you describe, I would have to question your motives in the same context as a NDP lover trolling a Conservative website. It’s obvious that you dislike UKIP but the real question would be, “what party do you like, and why ?
Since using the search facility can be a bit difficult here’s a link to help you.
http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84881
I have my differences with Richard North and in many respects he is his own worse enemy, but him having worked closely with Farage, you can take what he has to say about the man to the bank.
As for what political party I support here in the UK the answer is none. That didn’t stop me from voting Tory for Westminster last week and UK IS for district council. If Owen Patterson runs for leadership of the Tory Party I will definitely support him.
In Canada I was a supporter of and volunteer for the Reform Party from its early days and I still support the CPC. I also support the Saskatoon Party.
I’ve been active in politics long enough to distinguish a serious political party from a carnie freak show.
UK IS = UKIP (bloody predictive text)
I live in Saskatoon and I don’t support the Saskatoon Party. I had never heard of it until I read your post.
Good news for Britain and Europe.
” David Samuel-Camps, who worked for Farage until 2010, he now seems to have contradicted the paper’s version of his claims, arguing that there is very little difference between his actual figures and those claimed by Farage. ”
So what we have here is a lot of sizzle but no steak. It sounds like Richard North does not like Farage but I doubt if it will have a lot of impact in the coming years. That’s his right and I don’t know details of their personal relationship. Farage can be abrasive but that’s his style and will work for him as well as against him. I still see him as the only leader that recognizes the danger Britain is in and speaking out against it. As a armchair spectator I still like him the best even if he’s rough around the edges. The next few years will tell whether he’s still on the fringe or breaks through into the mainstream, and that will depend on what Cameron does. Interesting.
If there’s anything stupider than a socialist aristocrat, I have yet to glom eyeball upon it.
So that hit piece on Farage is over a year old. If there was any evidence that he had really purloined 60k GBP of EU funds, I am certain that we would have heard about it by now, from much more reputable sources.
Try again.