UKIP's leader Nigel Farage "drinks and smokes too much", says his wife Kirsten

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Nigel Farage’s wife has revealed her fears about his pub-loving lifestyle, saying that UK Independence Party leader “drinks and smokes too much”.

Kirsten Farage said she was worried that his “hectic” lifestyle, in which he skips meals and lives on adrenaline, will take its toll on him.
In what is thought to be her first ever newspaper interview, Mrs Farage lifted the lid on life with Mr Farage who this week led Ukip to victory in the European Parliament elections.

She defended her role as Mr Farage’s taxpayer-funded secretary, saying she often worked late and that Mr Farage was virtually computer illiterate.

She also disclosed that the Ukip leader was privately hurt by suggestions during the campaign that he is racist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10857136/Nigel-Farage-drinks-and-smokes-too-much-says-his-wife-Kirsten.html

[octoberlib]

1. He reminds me of John Boehner.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. Maybe he needs to drink and smoke a whole lot more.

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. "Hurt by suggestions that he's a racist"? Tosh.

http://www.channel4.com/news/nigel-farage-ukip-letter-school-concerns-racism-fascism

"The de facto leader of Ukip since 1999 has been a racist political failure," Sked counters. He means, of course, Nigel Farage. But even if Farage's recent statements about not wanting to live next door to Romanians suggest he is xenophobic, is there any proof he was racist when he and Sked worked together in the mid-1990s? Sked laughs at the question and recalls an incident from 1997 when the two men were arguing over the kind of candidates that Ukip should have standing at the looming general election. "He wanted ex-National Front candidates to run and I said, 'I'm not sure about that,' and he said, 'There's no need to worry about the nigger vote. The nig-nogs will never vote for us.'"

Farage has denied that he said these words and always insists that he is not racist.

How did Sked feel to hear such language? Who uses such racist words unless they think they're addressing a fellow racist or suspects they can co-opt the hearer into sharing their racist agenda? Sked shakes his head. "I was shocked," he says. "I had never heard people use those words. At the time, others thought he was being funny. I didn't. They showed what kind of man he is."

Sked argues that far-rightwingers who have worked for the National Front in the past now work for Ukip. "If he [Farage] runs in South Thanet, his agent will be a man called Heale who was a National Front organiser in west London." Sked means Martyn Heale, Ukip's branch chairman in Thanet and former National Front branch organiser in Hammersmith. It was after Sked left that he was allowed to join Ukip, rising to become Farage's election agent in the 2005 general election.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/26/ukip-founder-alan-sked-party-become-frankensteins-monster

[Prophet 451]

4. Of course he's a bloody racist!

UKIP's whole existence is an anti-foreigner animus. They're the BNP in better suits.