Today’s Daily Mirror also carried a story about Farage’s book. After reporting the hilarious reviews on Amazon in yesterday’s edition, they felt they had to buy a copy of it. The article begins
Yesterday, the internet piled on to write ‘hilarious’ reviews of Nigel Farage’s new book – and arguably it was our fault. So we bought a copy and actually read it.
Everyone’s got an opinion on Nigel Farage’s latest work. Amazon now has over 300 reviews – equally distributed between one and five star ratings, from his friends and foes.
But none of them seem to have actually READ it. You can tell because they don’t have the verified purchase tick.
We thought it was only fair if we bought the damn thing. See it as penance.
The 16 things they learnt were:
1. He credits YouTube for his rise!
2. It’s UKIP councillors who say the bad things, not the higher-ups.
3. Maybe women are a blind spot for him, he mentions boy (28) far more often than girl (6).
4. True to his brand values he mentions smoking 11 times and fags 4.
5. But is he really as keen on beer as he says?
6. He’s eaten at least three curries.
7. Farage mentions David Cameron 45 times.
8. Is Nigel obsessed with Nick Clegg?
9. He even opens the book with an anecdote about Clegg.
10. He bangs on about Europe a fair bit
11. But blimey – an odd turn here, he complains about HIV charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.
12. 31 mentions for immigration, 10 for racism.
13. Because it’s all about the ‘banter’ with Nigel.
14. He distances himself from Britain’s most famous fascist by pointing out that Mosley was pro-Europe.
At 15 the Mirror said they were ‘getting a bit bored by now’.
16. And finally, dedicates the whole book to his ‘long-suffering family’,
They conclude that he doesn’t apologise to the long suffering reader, and the Mirror apologises to their readers for wading through this stuff.
The article’s at http://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/bought-nigel-farages-new-book-5355449. Go there for the proof, and their appropriate comments on what they learned.
Among the points to emerge is the fact that Farage is very careful about his constructed image of a man, who likes his ciggies and beer. He wishes to appear as an easy-going, approachable bloke with whom you can banter.
He doesn’t like the Terence Higgins Trust, because they campaign for foreigners with AIDS to be treated free on the NHS. And of course, he puts a much lower premium on anti-racism than immigration.
As for Oswald Mosley supporting Europe, that’s true. However, Mosley’s conception of a united Europe was basically that of the Nazi party when they were trying to appeal to a common European culture that they were supposedly fighting to protect against the threat of Jews and Communists. It doesn’t have anything in common with the idea of the modern EU, no matter what UKIP and the Eurosceptics say to the contrary. And it also doesn’t stop Farage’s party of swivel-eyed loons having more in common with Fascism than they want people to realise. The Fascists and Hitler were aggressively anti-Socialist, anti-working class and anti-trade union, not excluding their incorporation of the unions into their corporate state. This was done to control them, and give Mussolini’s regime the façade of having more to it than merely his personal dictatorship.
As for the lower ranks of the party being responsible for embarrassing mistakes, this is just flannel and propaganda by Farage. He has said his fair share of embarrassing comments, such as his remarks on the privatisation of the NHS. The Kipper rank and file wanted him to shut up that time.
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