Nigel Farage Withdraws His Resignation!

[Jomlett]

Nigel Farage tendered his official resignation as leader of Ukip to the NEC. This offer was unanimously rejected by the NEC members who produced overwhelmingly evidence that the Ukip membership did not want Nigel to go!

[Jomlett]

Nigel Farage ✔@Nigel_Farage

UKIP's National Executive has rejected my resignation as leader. Please see my Facebook page for the full statement: http://www.facebook.com/nigelfarageofficial …

[mikey4444]

For Gods sake, let him go...PLEASE ! ! !

[Jomlett]

Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg are excitedly waiting by their phones for the calls from party HQ...!

[Canary42]

It's even funnier than I stated.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Jokes/Question1418496.html

[whirlyhurly]

I'm glad, he's the best leader for the job. Me and a fair amount of former Labour voters, agree that if it were not for the" first past the post"voting system then UKIP would be more fairly represented in parliament

[mikey4444]

Mad as a box of frogs.

[whirlyhurly]

Here we go name calling as per usual.

[waterbitch]

I put myself out to vote for UKIP as it's the only party to represent the English fairly

[andy-hughes]

I do like Nigel Farage, and I think the political scene would be poorer without his input.

I expected him back in September, when the party holds new leader elections, so I am glad he is sticking around.

It is an unfortunate fact of the electoral system that Scotland has such a massive presentation for such a small proportion of the vote, and UKIP's voting numbers are not reflected in its representation in The Commons.

[mikey4444]

All the Polling companies are being hauled over the coals for not getting their predictions right, but they were dead right about UKIP.

The Party started with 2 MP's, both borrowed from the Tories and ended up with 1 MP. And Farage lost his attempt at trying to gain a Westminster seat, for the 7th time, despite being one of the highest profile politicians in Britain over the last 2-3 years.

Not a very good record is it !

[Old_Geezer]

Whilst I did not predict it, it makes sense.

Farage is the face of UKIP. He puts the party's case forward and criticism levelled at him personally is fairly easy to counter; even if some of the other party members tend to put their foot in in sometimes.

Not that someone else could not become the charismatic face of UKIP eventually. But it's easier to refuse the resignation and hope he agrees to continue. It may have even been a foregone conclusion ;-)

Anyway, otherwise they might get Robert Kilroy Silk back.

[bazwillrun]

and it just gets worse for poor old mikey....

as if hes not got more important things to worry about then Nigel comes back to stick in his throat !...luvvin it....

why dont you concentrate on your own lamentable party and its wrecking crew...

[ichkeria]

This is so predictable I'm not sure it even counts as news.
Vote for UKIP: the only party which fails to keep its election promises
When it loses!
I'm glad he's stayung bless him. Suzanne Evans gives me the creeps :-)

[Svejk]

Great news. I didn't think the death of Labour could be bettered.

[naomi24]

I'm not surprised they didn't want him to go. Even without a seat in the house he puts the cat amongst the pigeons. :o)

[SirOracle]

As the saying goes " There's no show without Punch ".

[ummmm]

He certainly did get the 'not really interested' in politics/elections to find them a bit more interesting.

[Marshwarble]

Could he do something embarrassing and then they'd have to accept his resignation?