Nigel farage has resigned as ukip leader

[MsKite]

According to the FT on Twitter 😳

This really isn't good.

Again??? Give it three days, he'll change his mind (again).

I can't remember a referendum where all the leading figures on the winning side, were catapulted into immediate obscurity..? It's almost as if they're... ashamed what they've done to us.

It is not surprising. Farage never was a "career politician". He had one cause - leaving the EU, and he has achieved that.

Carswell is a complete and utter joke so will never get elected leader, but the Establishment will now try to destroy UKIP as an opposition. If Suzanne Evans becomes leader, that is the end of UKIP. Paul Nuttall and Steven Woolfe are good and will keep UKIP going for a while if they become leader.

How can he run for Tory leader when he isn't an MP? He's an MEP and a twat but not an MP.

I wonder if he's been Murdoched.

I wonder if he's been Murdoched.

Someone said darkly on Twitter something about him having lunch with Murdoch and then resigning the next day. Sorry for being thick but I don't know what all this means and would love someone to explain.

I can't remember a referendum where all the leading figures on the winning side, were catapulted into immediate obscurity

Er, maybe you didn't get the memo.
Two of them are running for Prime Minister.

'I wonder if he's been Murdoched.'

No, the Establishment would have stopped Farage years ago if they had something on him.

He wants his life back. But he may still stand as an MP somewhere and get in and cause the Establishment more panics in Parliament. But he doesn't want to be the driving force of the people's revolution any more.

Wasn't he at a garden party with Murdoch yesterday? He was sat next to Liam Fox too, plot thickens.
Look at his shoes - twat

Has he un-resigned yet ?

To be expected. He never was a career politician (its always been beyond my comprehension how anyone can be a multi millionaire from a career in politics.......)

I detest Farage. But he has achieved exactly what he entered politics to do. I was expecting him to resign the day of the result.

Dont overthink his motivations now, this is simply the acheivement of a lifelong ambition, and nothing to do with career politics.

I don't think anyone will be begging him to come back this time.

*viper" just had to explain top office why i laughed out lous at you assessment of his shoes :) what an absolute dikhed. No way is he going quietly.

I wonder if he's been Murdoched.

Funny you should say that, reminds me of what I read this morning... www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/03/farage-murdoch-lebedev-and-fox-break-bread-as-told-by-lily-allen

Two of them are running for Prime Minister

Theresa May wasn't exactly a leading figure in the Leave campaign.

So who's the other leading figure?

sap he was at lunch with Murdoch yesterday. Lily Allen was there and tweeted it.

Are you being serious?

What, again?

Are you being serious

Andrea Leadsom was a leading Leave campaigner.

Boris has gone.
Gove seems not to want to be PM.

Farage never was a "career politician"

Just watching Ed Milliband speaking on Victoria Derbyshire - he said how can he claim not to be a career politician when he has run for parliament 9 times. If that's not a career politician, what is?

I guess you are talking about Gove. The idea of him being PM must have been wiped out in my mind because it's too awful to contemplate.

This ghastly man represents the revolting face of the leave campaign and I am just sorry that he is not standing down as an MEP (which in his case is just a joke) immediately. He shamed the UK with his rantings in the European parliament and sullied the case for leaving the EU for those who have sound reasons for making their decision other than his disgusting xenophobic stance. What a nasty little creep he really is!

Furiosa and Sticky - yes Tories my first thought.

Not sure if he's ever popular enough to become leader of Tories though...

'he said how can he claim not to be a career politician '

What Farage means is that he was not prepared to spin and come up wuth nonsense like Miliband was in order to advance his career. Farage cared about one issue, getting us out of the EU, and if he would have wanted a "career" in politics, like Miliband did, then Farage would have been better off not to campaign for that and instead join Cameron and the team of modernisers in office.

megl, yes, I know he was hanging out with Murdoch. What I don't understand is, some people are making inferences/innuendo about that being connected to his decision to resign. e.g.'he's been Murdoched', 'No, the Establishment would have stopped Farage years ago if they had something on him.'

Why? What does it mean?

I'm not being disingenuous; I genuinely don't understand what Murdoch might say to him to make him decide to resign. Someone please explain for the hard of thinking!