Nigel Farage joined lobby journalists in Parliament for lunch today. Like many of his hustings, it was a box office event, and indeed like many of those campaign trail appearances, he made plenty of the same jokes that those who follow him about have heard many times before such as the one about being married to a foreigner, and about the problem with the Westminster bubble:
‘They look the same, they sound the same, God! They’re dull! I mean, they are not much fun to be with.’
Farage, of course, is fun to be with. He was sporting a red rose for St George’s Day, and decided to regale journalists at the start of his speech by saying that his press officer tried to reassure him after his News of the World gotcha by saying that the story could have been worse: ‘He said, well, at least she said you were hung like a donkey and did it seven times! Which I have to say, isn’t true on either account.’
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