Nigel Farage is here in Cleveland at the Republican Convention. He’s enjoying himself, and why not? Britain has voted for Brexit, and he doesn’t have a party to run. He can bask.
Today he had lunch and a Q&A session with some fellow-minded conservatives on the Old River Road. They were all pleased as punch about Brexit, the Donald Trump thing, and the rise of anti-elite populism everywhere. ‘It looks like the perfect storm,’ Farage said, just before he sat down to eat. He was speaking to Steven King, a Republican congressman who recently got into hot water after he questioned the contribution non-white people had made to American history. The two men discussed the beauty of the imperial measurement system over the dull metric.
Farage was in an even more relaxed mood than usual. He told guests he ‘wasn’t surprised’ by the Brexit result, which was a little disingenuous, given that it’s well-known that he half-conceded defeat on the night of 23 June.
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The event was supposed to be about Brexit, and Farage gave the crowd the British freedom jubilation they wanted.
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