Farage stays on as UKIP leader

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UKIP have rejected his resignation, and he is staying on.

Wonder if Labour will do the same for Wallace...

[worsy]

You couldn't make it up

[Walford]

and Nick Clogg

[Puggit]

worsy said:

You couldn't make it up

The election, in terms of popular vote, was a huge success for UKIP. 0.9m votes in 2010 up to 3.9m votes in 2015.

[Grumfutock]

Hmmmmm is that the stench of a resignation PR stunt I smell?

[Puggit]

Grumfutock said:

Hmmmmm is that the stench of a resignation PR stunt I smell?

No, he said before the election he would stand down if he failed to win Thanet South. He was a man of his word.

[mrpurple]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPePk3kGZk

[anonymous-user]

They had to really, he's UKIP all on his own. There's nobody else approaching his popularity in the party.

[Morningside]

As I posted in another link. He was on some BBC programme this morning. I thought he was taking a break?

[0000]

Hmmn. I thought a charade of a leadership election would've been a good way for him to get back in without resulting in the inevitable line of questioning from the media. Not sure this was the best route to take, even if it was the likely eventual outcome.

[valiant]

Puggit said:

No, he said before the election he would stand down if he failed to win Thanet South. He was a man of his word.

For all of 5 minutes...

[Grumfutock]

Puggit said:

Grumfutock said:

Hmmmmm is that the stench of a resignation PR stunt I smell?

No, he said before the election he would stand down if he failed to win Thanet South. He was a man of his word.

Oh well it must be true then! Was it also in the Sun?

[anonymous-user]

I guess he felt once he committed himself he couldn't say otherwise.

Puggit said:

worsy said:

You couldn't make it up

The election, in terms of popular vote, was a huge success for UKIP. 0.9m votes in 2010 up to 3.9m votes in 2015.

He is the key figure. I didn't vote for him, but I admire his drive and determination.

[bga]

valiant said:

Puggit said:

No, he said before the election he would stand down if he failed to win Thanet South. He was a man of his word.

For all of 5 minutes...

nothing but a stunt.

[Bluebarge]

Puggit said:

Grumfutock said:

Hmmmmm is that the stench of a resignation PR stunt I smell?

No, he said before the election he would stand down if he failed to win Thanet South. He was a man of his word.

Well he's stood up again 4 days later - bit too convenient that - like Putin "standing down".

Not the done thing Nigel old chap - if you say you'll go, you should go.

[MGJohn]

el stovey said:

They had to really, he's UKIP all on his own. There's nobody else approaching his popularity in the party.

Or Westminster come to that. Love the way our media luvvies tried in vain to score points off him and time and again failed miserably to do so.

For someone "all on his own", those four million votes obviously count for nowt in the thicko mindsets of some. Even the now Desperate Dave has had no alternative but to take that into account now at the top of his EU agenda on an increasingly timely basis. Too right and long overdue. Boy will he have to work hard to get a result that pleases not simply UKIP voters, but the back benchers who also have strong views on our current relationship within the EU whilst at the same time satisfying the Tory Party Paymasters who will always call the tune. Not to mention the many folks I know who voted Tory whilst hoping the salient features within UKIP's policies will also come to pass.

Just because rather more than UKIP's four million voted Tory, does not automatically mean Tory voters reject all of UKIP's policy.

[anonymous-user]

We certainly need people like him now that there is no credible opposition for the near future.

[Jinx]

MGJohn said:

Or Westminster come to that. Love the way our media luvvies tried in vain to score points of him and time and again failed miserably to do so.

For someone "all on his own", those four million votes obviously count for nowt in the thicko mindsets of some. Even the now Desperate Dave has had no alternative but to take that into account now at the top of his EU agenda on an increasingly timely basis. Too right and long overdue. Boy will he have to work hard to get a result that pleases not simply UKIP voters, but the back benchers who also have strong views on our current relationship within the EU whilst at the same time satisfying the Tory Party Paymasters who will always call the tune. Not to mention the many folks I know who voted Tory whilst hoping the salient features within UKIP's policies will also come to pass.

Just because rather more than UKIP's four million voted Tory, does not automatically mean Tory voters reject all of UKIP's policy.

Little has been said of the local council results as well. UKIP up 176 seats and gained their first council (Thanet) . That's a lot of local support.

[Amateurish]

bga said:

valiant said:

Puggit said:

No, he said before the election he would stand down if he failed to win Thanet South. He was a man of his word.

For all of 5 minutes...

nothing but a stunt.

"A man of his word": there's a difference between standing down, and asking the national executive if they will agree to him standing down.

[MGJohn]

Love to see the division and bitterness of disappointment on these threads. Farage said he would resign and he did just that. It was rejected. Tough mammories .....

He has earned a break from it all but like Arnie may have said...

He may be back >

Meantime, 300,000 pa and set to rise...