Mr farage hasn't made enough money to walk away at present.

If there is an EU referendum the result will be an overwhelming "no" on leaving. Then UKIP will be useless and will hopefully evaporate.

Yeah. "I clowned around a bit during an election year then got booted out of my MP's seat" doesn't really sell autobiographies :hehe:

farage is to popular, and the only way he can resign, if the party force him out, nigel farage is god to the party's supporters, and I believe that the party voted for him to stay,

Yes just like the SNP did

All media will see this news as gold dust

Quite frankly, in my view, were he to actually carry on after all he has said, he will make himself look ridiculous.
Losing a lot of credibility in the process.

UKIP in no way managed to capture their European elections success from just a year ago,he failed by a fair margin too to win the seat he contested, even after the debates he was on and the high profile he had.

If he stayed on, he would lose even more trust as to his word.

That generally isn't how resignations worked, I'd have thought :unsure:

Also he is Still a MEP
in Europe

I always think it's stupid when party leaders resign after losing an election - like, whatever you think of him, Nigel Farage has blatantly been a success for UKIP, why would he have ever tendered a resignation other than because that's what's expected of a losing party leader? Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg should absolutely have resigned but Farage has increased his party's share of the vote by a crazy amount and has turned them into the third largest party in the UK. Not bad.

Nice little show that Nigel put on there.

It's like Alex Salmond resigning after the referendum result didn't go his way - he still galvanised 45% of Scottish voters into voting in favour of independence, that's still an impressive achievement - but he goes and resigns as a result. Ehhh

not bad for a little party that are called, fruitcakes, loony's, and racists, by the scumbag media, the purple rash will spread and it won't stop,

Oh dear

lol ...mr faraaage is a legendary campaigner, milibland couldn't sell fruit and veg to his kids for nothinga....its like comparing marlon brando with marlon blando

legendary campaigner, I think it a disgrace that UKIP got 3,800,000+ votes and only 1 seat.
However this legendary campaigner couldn't have his party hold the 2 seats they had, and fell a fair way short,over 3,000 votes, of winning the seat he contested,which was considered his really best chance.

Doesn't sound much like a legendary campaigner to me.

His decision to stay on now, is his worst decision yet too as now he looks more of a laughing stock.

At least Clegg and Miliband went right off with no twisting and turning.
That is going with dignity,not hanging on for grim death.
I am,resigning,Farage said, I have done too much politics over the years.
Then,Oh no, the party want me to stay, I am staying now.

What a clown and what a farce.
Five years on from now, he will be an even bigger irrelevance in my view and this decision will come back to haunt him, if he is in fact still leader then too.

Do i detect the feint whiff of sour grapes in this thread....

:think:

Do I detect the faint whiff of mutiny aboard ship UKIP?... :joker:

MP Douglas Carswell seizing the reins?

Sour grapes over what? The fact that Nigel said he would resign and then, in one of the least surprising political "twists" in living memory, actually didn't? He was never going anywhere, he said he would resign if he lost his seat purely and simply because he was over-confident that he WOULDN'T lose his seat... but then he did... so we got this convoluted nonsense about how he would have left but the party didn't want him to so now he "has to" stay.

There's nothing to be sour about, is there? It's actually pretty funny :hehe:

a man of his word, and one of the most popular political figures in decades

we should all be rejoicing, no matter what party you pull for

Those of us who can see through his charm, which he admittedly does have, in a way, would be happy to never hear from him again.

He's also not a man of his word if he stays on as leader. Simply.

he said he was going to resign and he didn't lol

He has made himself a laughing stock.

What is being said by UKIP by this farce,is that after he is gone they are completely finished.

His word is now meaningless too.
He has now just joined the real world of most of politics where what he says and what he does are 2 entirely different things.

:laugh: spot on Joey

My view is Carswell was involved in some espionage... anyone else think it's odd the only UKIP member to win a seat was an ex tory?