LETTER: Farage unlikely to be knighted

I’m not the first person to observe that, so far, the rhetoric from Teresa May indicates that she could be the most left wing Prime Minister since Harold Wilson. We shall wait and see.

Also at a Tory party conference in the early 2000s she famously suggested that her party was being perceived as the “nasty party”. The conference cameras then captured some of the elderly audience grim faced and refusing to applaud.

Well, I believe subsequently the nasty element she referred to, probably joined UKIP. For example, as events now unfolding at the Welsh assembly reveal, they can’t stop turning on one another and bullying each other when given any sort of responsibility to actually govern.

Locally, Robert Arnold, aka Ourtownsback….should be Ourtownsbore… in a letter published here on July 13 says that Nigel Farage should be knighted.

Farage, you will remember, heaped scorn on the EU parliament while drawing massive wages and expenses and then quit as UKIP leader but still declines to stop milking the system of EU benefits he despises.

He is unlikely ever to be knighted. However, it is possible that he could be arrested for promoting racial hatred after a petition of 40,000 signatures was handed into Kentish Town police station recently, concerning a poster used during the referendum that defied, even the lowest standards of campaign decency.

Sorry UKIP, you’ve got a very long way to go before I can believe that you are anything other than the “nasty party” who were once Tories.

By the way, I do hope the trio of “Leavers” who ganged up to shout abuse at me at Stamford farmers’ market during the referendum get to read this and, like Mr Arnold, instead of being apoplectic with rage, they can learn to respect others holding different opinions…it might help.

David Turp
Pinchbeck