to feel very proud of the Scots' reaction to Nigel Farage?

[HeadFairy]

Particularly the man who yelled at him "foreigners are welcome in Scotland, you're not!"

:o

As I mentioned previously, I'm English adds have lived in Scotland for nearly sixteen years - most of my adult life.

I can honestly say, hand on heart, I've never been subjected to anti English racism. I love it here and have never been made to feel anything but welcome.

and, not adds.

Aaaaaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I just needed to get that out.

Think people, please think.

The cuts in government services are nothing to do with foreigners.

When the government was
Announcing it huge programme of cuts at the same time as the unrest in Syria, the British government were spending £500,000 pounds a pop on tomahawk missiles, produced by Raytheon. Of these missiles only one in 7 would hit its _intended_target

Midwife shortages are so dire because being a a midwife on the nhs is a dire and demoralising experience and most ending leaving and going private, independent, doing something else

Granny's meals on wheels are losing out to politicians business lunches

There was no violence; just shouting. And some of the shouting was funny - Nigel, you're a bawbag.

There's no appetite here foe UKIP. Farange was in Edinburgh to campaign for an election being held 135 miles north of Edinburgh. The UKIP candidate in the election lives in Edinburgh, presumably they couldn't find one more local than that. Or perhaps they picked that candidate because of his sterling achievement in a previous election, when he got 1.3% of the vote. Which is impressive, because UKIP don't usually get a whole percent in Scotland.

I didn't realise from the BBC reports that Farage was in Scotland to promote a UKIP candidate in a by-election.

'Protesters shouting 'racist Nazi scum' storm UKIP press conference
They then lay siege to the pub forcing police to barricade doors
Mr Farage is in Scotland campaigning for Aberdeen Donside by-election'

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325679/Nigel-Farage-bundled-police-van-barricaded-inside-pub-going-promote-Scottish-election-candidate.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The rowdy plonkers who protested in such a way have helped Farage grow in popularity. With fools like them as his political opponents, he can't lose.

Haven't read thread, here is always reliable Daily Mash's take if no-one has linked.

YANBU. He is a bawbag. Hopefully he won't be back.

I imagine he thought that with the number of English residents Edinburgh has he'd get a warmer reception.

What a knobber.

UKIP are political and social dinosaurs - the more exposure they get, the more people will see them for what they are and will tell them to get lost.

Farage is not a man of the people. He came from a rich family, went to a private school, went to work in the City and made a bomb, all of which has given him an over-entitled belief that he can spout off about the lives most of us actually live (and that he doesn't have to, insulated as he is by his wealth).

And what he may care to remember is that his own family were religious refugees - huguenots who fled France to come to England. But he probably forgets that quite conveniently - or claims that they were a different class of refugee back in those days.....

I had the joy of living in Edinburgh for a few years. Well done the current residents for telling it like it is!

'Mr Farage asked to meet political journalists in a pub near the Scottish Parliament, and selected the Canons? Gait on the Royal Mile.

Often pictured with a pint in his hand, the colourful politician chatted to reporters and drank a beer before he carried out TV interviews. But around 20 protesters arrived in the bar shortly after 5pm.

Mr Farage was accused of being a ?racist? and likened to BNP leader Nick Griffin by the angry mob. The politician defended his policies, before peace was briefly restored and a press conference was held with journalists.

But 15 minutes later, the anti-racism activists started chanting again and ? with no apparent sense of irony - shouted at Mr Farage to ?go home?.

The Donside constituency he was campaigning for is 135 miles north of Edinburgh, the same distance as that between Birmingham and York. If there was an election in York, would UKIP base it's campaign in Birmingham as being "close enough"?

Farange seems woefully ignorant of Scottish geography. I live in Donside, and UKIP are not making themselves popular by saying that a city 135 miles to the south is close enough for the campaign. (Although they wouldn't be popular if they actually visited the constituency, either.)

The very best thing I heard on the radio recently, was that in Malay, the word 'farage' means vagina. :)

Or is that the very worst thing?

Does that mean we all have an inner Farage? Is there an operation that might remove it?

The question I would love to have put to Farange is "Where is the constituency for which you are campaigning? Do you know?" Because the impression is that he thinks Scotland is just one amorphous mass.

Wuldric

I wish Nigel had taken the brunt of a nearly 11lb baby rather than my Farage...

Sheshelob

In this case it would involve the toad-like Salmond and the newt-like Farage locked together in some unnatural, ghastly parody of amphibians clasped together in a fighting/mating embrace.

Down, down they'd go, taking their parties with them.

It makes me excited just to think about it.

AberdeenAngusina, Farage wanted to hold a press conference with political journalists to create publicity for his party. That is why he was in Edinburgh, where most of them probably hang out near the Scottish parliament, rather than in Donside. It sounds like he also wanted a pint.

"Mr Farage asked to meet political journalists in a pub near the Scottish Parliament"

claig, so is that how UKIP campaigns in England - in a city 135 miles away? Rather than talking to the journalists who work for the newspaper which covers Donside in Donside?

I don't know what UKIP do. but I suspect that 1 month before a by-election, they want maximum publicity and want to get onto BBC radio and TV, and so hold their press conferences in Westminster rather than in a local constituency.

Crying with laughter at image of reptilian pair in some terminal embrace.

Also makes me want to stab my eyes out.

Our newspapers tend to have a strong regional identity. The most-read newspaper in Donside is the Press & Journal. No Scottish politician would assume that journalists in Edinburgh would cover Donside, they would speak to journalists from the P&J.

Why do you think he was in Edinburgh if not for maximum publicity?

The rabble helped him by giving him maximum publicity in media across the entire UK instead of just in Scotland, and this will only have increased his popularity as he faced the mob down and called them out on their intimidatory tactics.

I am sure that the people in Donside listen to BBC radio and watch BBC Scotland too, as well as reading national UK media such as the Daily Mail online.

Farage has got more publicity than he ever dreamed of thanks to the rabble of 50 or so hardcore noisy boors.

I think Nigel went looking for trouble/lots of publicity, holding his ""impromptu press conference" in a pub. Look what happened with Iain Duncan Smith at the George Hotel.

He paid for a pint and got his point across to the entire UK population.

The radical rabble, apparently something to do with Radical Independence Scotland, are slapping in each other on the back, but their protest has given Farge a helping hand and projected him onto every TV screen across the land.

I don't think Donside is natural Daily Mail territory! Immigration is generally welcomed here - we are an area of low unemployment and we rely on immigration for workers for the fishing industry, and agriculture. There are people here who actively recruit immigrants.Our economy would suffer if it was not for our valued immigrants.

Claig if what you are trying to say is that Farage went to Edinburgh to try to milk his 5 minutes of fame you'd be right.