[kirklancaster]

I did not read beyond the blatantly prejudiced, tedious, hackneyed and highly offensive LIE that: "The only viable alternative would have been the leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, an individual who would have found it extremely difficult to reach beyond his core xenophobic constituency."

Not only is Michael Clifford a disgrace to journalism, he quite evidently does not have a clue what he is talking about, because far from Farage finding it 'difficult' reach beyond his constituency, his political views have greatly resonated with ordinary decent people the length and breadth of the uk - to such a degree - that he has galvanised them and woken them from their apathy, and made UKIP THE second party in parts of the country, is responsible for exposing the corruption which is the EU, exposed the 'fat pig' elitists who ride the Brussels 'Gravy Train at our expense, and is almost single-handedly responsible for forcing the 'Referendum', as well as the resignation of a Prime Minister who prostituted his principles on behalf of those Brussels elitists, and lied repeatedly to his electorate.

It is now time to drop all the unwarranted and disingenuous 'Racist' and 'xenophobic' slurs against Farage, because it is to his credit that he dares to address the growing and dangerous problem of unfettered, uncontrolled, unvetted immigration when his contempories refuse to see the 'elephant in the room' or see it but refuse to admit it - whether through fear of being labelled 'racist' and 'xenophobic', or through a desire to 'downplay' the threat because they have huge vested financial interests in perpetuating our suicidal 'open door' immigration policy.

To any honest, impartial observer, Farage is an outstanding orator, more honest a politician than his contempories, and a more adept politician than they - he is infinitely so much more than the 'one trick pony' of a politician that he is so unfairly made out to be, and it is a great shame that he has to suffer such abuse, while those levelling it conveniently ignore the very real crimes of Cameron and Osborne and company.