Nigel Farage Comes to the Brave New Scotland

I am not quite sure I understand why Nigel Farage opted to launch UKIP’s Aberdeen by-election campaign in Edinburgh. Then again, UKIP are a puzzling party. In any event, it all went rather well.

Not just because forcing Nigel Farage to “flee” and take “sanctuary” in a pub is the kind of hardship up with which the UKIP leader can fondly put, but rather because the sight of Mr Farage being jostled and shouted down by left-wing “radicals” is one of the few things liable to provoke some measure of sympathy for UKIP north of the border.

UKIP thrives on farce and chaos. The goons from something calling itself the “Campaign for Radical Independence” ensured that a visit that would otherwise passed almost un-noticed received plenty of coverage. Heckuva job, lads. But what else is to be expected from folk who swank around the place shouting “You’re a racist, go home to England” ? You’d almost think this stunt was planned by the boys from The Daily Mash.