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UK POLITICIAN AND the former leader of Ukip Nigel Farage has claimed that he is “skint”, and has said that there is “no money in politics”.
In an interview with the UK Daily Mail, Farage talked about his personal life, relationships and how he can’t walk around outside on his own without fear of being attacked.
“My life is not easy. There’s a lot of aggro to deal with,” Farage told the paper.
I can’t walk down the street in London on my own. The level of aggression and unpleasantness is constant. I’ll never be able to live a normal life in London.
Farage has recently separated from his wife and currently lives on his own in Chelsea, in London.
In the interview, he describes himself as “53, separated and skint”.
“There’s no money in politics, particularly doing it the way I’ve done it – 20 years of spending more than you earn,’ said Farage.
Farage is currently an MEP, and has been since 1999. He founded Ukip in 1993 and has run seven times for Westminster but has never been elected.
Despite this, Ukip and Farage played a role in last year’s Brexit referendum.
Farage has come in for criticism on social media following the interview, with people pointing out that he lives in a £4 million townhouse in Chelsea and has been taking an MEP salary since 1999.
According to the EU parliament’s website, the average monthly pre-tax salary of an MEP is €8,484 per month – which adds up to about €101,000 per year.
The Daily Mail interview is sympathetic to Farage, saying that he “cares deeply about his country” and calling him “one of the most successful politicians of his generation”.
Farage stepped down as Ukip leader in July, 2016, following the Brexit vote.
He faced criticism for having one of the worst voting records in the European parliament.
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Calls himself skint with a 4million house and on €101,000 per year,
Oh yeah, he’s really in touch with the average working joe/mary in the UK, a real man of the people.
One can only feel empathy for such a man,
@Barry Somers: I think a 4m house and 100k a year is the definition of skint.. A couple on the average industrial wage is 70k and I doubt they could afford a 3m house
@Barry Somers: What if you have a couple of houses and a couple of housekeepers? You should try it sometime.
@Barry Somers: he is only a c~~t and this confirms it.
@ktsiwot: your comment supports his claim of suffering harrassment in the conduct of his daily life. If your not “on message” that’s what you get from the purveyors of tolerance.
@Misanthrope: all politicians suffer harassment. Even more so when they lie and brazenly admit to it with a shrug of the shoulders when it’s too late to do anything about it
@Misanthrope: to be fair, he is a racist so why should he be tolerated.
@ktsiwot: Wow, your words are so eloquent and persuasive – using words like that, it must be true.
@Morgan Freeman: any link to open racist comments. Being anti immigration doesn’t make u racist
@Morgan Freeman: Anyone who doesn’t sing from the”correct” hymsheet is a racist, bigot, xenophobic hatemonger according to the cultural Marxist zealotry. Tolerance is only for the incrowd
@JJ: That’s what Padraig said on the Late Late and see where he ended up
To me Nigel is a b……… not a politician
@JJ:
@JJ: you just pee”d on the comments section
@Barry Somers: Skint from feeding that big mouth. What a spa
@john: If only there was some way of selling the house.
I suggest he asks for a E.U. subsidy!
@Seamus McErlain: If people on eggheads are so clever why aren’t they sorting out brexit
Frauds
@Seamus McErlain: He should join Fine Gael. That crowd are not short of a few bob.
Sounds extremely like P Flynn!
“I get give or take, it works out at about with expenses 140,000 a year and I pay 30.3% tax on that, so it’s about a net 100,000 and out of that 100,000 I run a home in Dublin, Castlebar and Brussels. I wanna tell you something, try it sometime…”
Nigel Farage who spoke about his hatred for career politicians just the other day,discusses how his career as a politician has left him broke.He also speaks about his hatred of elites from a 4m pound Chelsea townhouse while bemoaning the fact he spends more money than he earns.All in a puff piece in the Daily Heil where they never even questioned him endorsing Roy Moore,an openly racist paedophile.
Thankfully he has his £73,000 EU pension to fall back on.
@alphanautica: which he says he will gladly take, after all in his own words “why should my family suffer?”
But its fine for everyone else to suffer when the UK leaves the EU of course
@alphanautica: thank god he was elected.
@alphanautica: He can still afford to hangout in the Washington Trump hotel, the man is a sympathy grabbing moron.
Crocodile tears. Even if it is true it would be difficult to have any sympathy for him. He has contributed in no small way to major worry and difficulties to both UK and Ireland not to mention blighting the future of so many young people in the UK.
Daily Mail covering a right winger: “Someone help this poor man, he only makes 100k a year and has a house worth £4m”
Daily Mail covering the poor: “Bloody people on benefits are what is ruining this country. Rule Britannia! Bring back the facking good old days of plundering Ireland and India and living off their wealth!”
I’m curious will he win most punchable face 2018 in punchable face magazine again? :)
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Perhaps, if Nigel contacted Bertie Ahern he could get advice on how to rectify this problem. There would be a fee for this advice, but it will be worth it.
@Donal Desmond: Close all his bank accounts and get down the racetrack
@John Doe: Ironically Bertie stated he never had a bank account. He had more luck in the horses than the mafia did.
When expenses are taken in to account Farage gets around 350.000 euro.When he steps down from the European Parliament he will walk away with half a million . This. will include a tax free lump sum.So Nigel is fine thank you very much
I think he might have a lot of company in the UK post Brexit. Except he still has his hand on our EU pocket for his pension post Brexit
Take note UK…this is what you followed down the wormhole!
No money in politics? Hahahahahahaha
Shur they’re all in it for the love of it and to make peoples lives better!!!!
Nigel,you should come over here and see how we look after our politicians.80,000 straight up and expenses for going to work. This can be substantially increased by promotion to junior or even full minister with chauffeur driven Merc.Unfortunately this may entail some travel but not to worry as you while stay in a 5 star hotel with all expenses paid by a grateful electorate .Yes of course you can bring family members and friends as we wouldn’t want you to be lonely while your performing valuable work for the country.Yet you may have mixed feelings about the Dail.On the one hand you will have to listen to boring,repartee about parochial issues, on the other there’s the reward of a subsidised meal with drinks after.This you can put on your tab and maybe pay at a late date if you wish.I could go on Nigel but I think you get the picture,you see how we look after our hard working dedicated and selfless politicians.One finally point Nigel if you were a politicians over here now you would be on holidays for the next month.We like to give our politicians time off to spend their generous income.Yes Nigel I would vote for you especially if you stood up for us against the bullies in Europe.
@Denis Mc Kenna: _ Thankfully, you’d be the only one voting for him, so he wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of getting on the ladder in Irish politics. I would prefer to see him on a gibbet rather than see him taking a spot in Leinster House.
@Ted Murray: Maybe If he had been representing us in Europe we would be paying all the extra taxes imposed on by our cowardly ,spineless politicians to cover the private speculative investments of the bond holders.But then again you probably agree with the sentiment that only the plebs pay taxes.
@Ted Murray: Maybe if he had been representing us in Europe rather that the cowardly spineless politicians we had, we wouldn’t be paying all these extra taxes to cover the speculative investments of bond holders.But then again maybe you agree with the idea that only little people pay taxes and are happy with that.
“Running 3 houses on one hundred grand a year is not easy” – P. Flynn MEP,(late late show 1990′s.) So unbelievably out of touch with reality it scares me to think their the pepole in control.
His pension will have to come out of the Brexit divorce bill.
So divorce on the double.
Fact check. Alan Sked founded the party, Jimmy Goldsmith bankrolled and Farage joined later ousting Sked.
He sounds like the Clintons!!
@Don Alfredo: You sound like a broken record
It is actually astounding that people accept as mavericks people who are entirely mired in the Establishment.
Mavericks like Corbyn, Trump and Farage.
And while I abhor the career politician, these people are not the antithesis.
@Damocles: Yeah, Corbyn, Trump, Farage – All the exact same.
One wants to scrap college fees, end zero hour contracts, and increase the minimum wage from £7.83 an hour to £10 an hour.
The other two want to cut taxes for the rich and “take back control” (without ever explaining what that exactly means)
@Damocles: how can you possibly mention Corbyn alongside Farage and Trump? He has spent his entire adult life fighting for the greater good unlike the other two who have used divisiveness , scapegoating and outright lies to further their hateful agendas.
@EillieEs: Jeremy Corbyn is a career politician who bends whichever the wind blows him in order to try to gain power. When in doubt he sits quietly on the fence until people spontaneously decide he agrees with them.
@Damocles: absolutely correct , what the lefties fail to realise is that in order to achieve what Corbyn promises, borrowing would have to raise dramatically.
Add that to the likelihood that without a soft brexit borrowing costs for the uk are set to rise he would essentially plunge them in the longer term into a recession.
Financial prudence is simply not important to the left. They must be all economically illiterate.
@Damocles: love the hard words
The poor guy I hope he gets through this difficult period in his life.
A pr1ck of a man
What about the homeless?
@: what about them !!
Emigrate.
More lies
His missus is going to take her half hopefully and leave him really skint.Have to say karma is great isint it.I mean he really is an arrogant man and has ruffled many feathers.
I hope he moves to America.No loss whatsoever.
He did create a United kip
Carreer politicians will be career politicians. No difference between Farage, May, Wilders or Merkel.
Can’t walk the streets of London due to the aggression! I wonder why, maybe the people are hurt by the lies and damage the ukip caused.
Brexit my a s s, you ran a mile when you realised you might have to deal with the mess you created
@B9xiRspG: what about all the foreign people and people of colour who get abused walking down the street because of the bile this loser has spat. You give out hate you get back hate. It’s hard to have empathy for someone who has none. Why doesn’t he hit his mate Trump up? Because he’d laugh in his face.
@B9xiRspG: As much as I hate the rag I suggest that people read the original DM interview. I’m no fan of this guy but the journal have extracted the normal bits to say the normal things on their agenda and get the normal comments here.
@Patrick J. O’Rourke: Patrick, this guy has zero defense, his speeches were borderline hate speeches, his party full of lies.
What’s are the ukip today?
The UK will suffer for his lies for generations.
History will not look kindly on him and the ukip
@B9xiRspG: I’m sure that if anything he said was hate speech them he would be in jail now as in the UK if you say anything against Islamification you get arrested. As for lies, what lies were they? He never actually said anything about the contribution recovering whatever silly amount it was as far as I understand it. With regard to Brexit for most people who voted to leave it had nothing to do with money, just EU power and enforced immigration policies. I spent a lot of my life in the UK and unless you have experienced the horrendous changes communities are going through you can’t understand where the leave vote came from. It would have been the same without Farage on the scene.
He is, yeah.
@Danny Rafferty: Does he still take his EU salary and wants out of EU……..Bit like SF taking their Westminster expences…
@John003: He does, yeah.
There is no such thing as a skint politician. Thanks for the laugh. lol
Should be skint.
8k a month? slave labour, hope he’s in a union.
Is that not what politicians do best TELL LIES.
Come to Ireland I’m sure wank FG will let you dip your beak in there gravy
Is that not what politician’s do best TELL LIES.
My heart bleeds, such a lovely guy too…not
He should come to Ireland and get lessons from our lot of wasters, how to cream the system and get paid without even having a bank account.
Stay out of the pub
Lying little shit.
The MASTER OF LIES
Yep I’m a state pensioner I know how he feels
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