Live webchat with UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Thurs 24 Feb, 1-2pm

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Our live webchat guest this week is Nigel Farage. He is the leader of UKIP and has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999.

Known for his straight-talking, Nigel has made the headlines with forthright speeches, once telling the EU President he had the charisma of a 'damp rag'.

He is a regular on programmes including BBC Question Time.

If you have a question you'd like to put to Nigel, please join the webchat this Thursday lunchtime, 1pm - 2pm. If you won't be around then, please post your question here.

"I think Muslims are great people."

What? Even Omid Djalili???

NB: Mormon Kris - excuse me if you have said this or if this is not rude but are you a Brit?

Why would anyone need to try to make UKIP look bad? I find that their official representatives do the job well enough themselves.

Can we pick the singular culture at random: a lucky dip?

A UKIP member on Twitter has asserted that some "UKIP members" on this thread are actually people trying to make UKIP look bad.

Isnt that what the BNP always say if one of their members morons says something stupid?

It wasnt us - it was them lying lefties.

I choose MINE. You all have to have like vintage chic tat, go mental at Christmas and buy 6 tons of plastic toys, like cakes and lust after David Tennant (but only as Dr Who).

Agree with Damsel, no need to make them look bad by stealth, they do a jolly good job on their own. What, what?

before I agree to this proposal, MrsDeVere, I need to know: what kind of cakes?

Culture lucky-dip, like the idea. Hope it's not Geordie, I really need to wear my coat when I go out at night

This thread is going to be the gift that just keeps giving, isn't it?

I have to say, I base my view on the hair's breath similarity between UKIP and the BNP on the ramblings from both parties that were shoved through my letterbox during the election. Both equally disturbing and unpleasant but UKIP seemed to see itself as a better class of bigot. Golf-club bigots iyswim.

I don't happen to agree with Conservative party policy, for example, but at least Tory ideology has an internal consistency - UKIP's missive was an incoherent shambles and littered with basic factual errors. It is also very hard to give any credence at all to an organisation that behaves as it has on this thread - never mind the fleeting grasp it seems to have of factual accuracy - or reality for that matter.

900,000 people voted for you, eh? I wonder how many people wrote to free Deirdre Rashid back in the day...

I do not consider anything with fruit or nuts in it a cake. Jam/cream/chocolate has to be present in some form or quantity.

How about Battenburg MrsDeVere?

I'm not agreeing to anything that involves battenburg cake.

I was always fooled by its colourful quarters as a child. Vile stuff.

mrsDeVere- it would have to be wooden toys- this is mn you know!

If you look on their manifesto they are very keen on encouraging "British designers" to create "a reinvigorated British style."

Being married to a 'creative' I know there is nothing more the design community love than being told what to make and what it should look like. Especially politicians.

CaptainNancy I thought about asking that but thought I'd go with Viscount Monckton instead as his name makes me laugh. You did kind of hijack my second question though with Bloom's heckle

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wow tondelayo- isn't that quite similar to what happened in Germany in the 1930s?

Cakeywakey- I believe battenburg is quite close to UKIP's colours...

cakeywakey, I'm quite glad it's UKIP this week, that means it's the Monster Raving Looney party next week and the Flat Earth Society after that.

And clearly UKIP doesn't even have the courage of its own convictions, if its own people are now asserting that the UKIP posters here are wreckers trying to make them look bad. What do you say to that then, Mr Staveley and Mr Towler, eh? Lovely bunch of friends you've got there...

And yes, MNHQ, if I can have any question going to Nige, please can it be Captain Nancy's:
How do you defend Godfrey Bloom MEP heckling the German MEP Martin Schulz with the words "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" last November?"

Nigel, I'm all ears...

Good point CaptainNancy, scrap the Battenburg. Immediately!

Definitely looking forward to the Monster Raving Looneys Madam

I am on the fence re battenburg - I am overly fond of pink you see.

Wooden toys are not part of my culture - particularly wooden bicycles. I am afraid I am unmovable on this point.

What are UKIPs colours then? I have been so blinded my their policies I havent noticed....

Ah but who are the British designers? How far back are we going?

Nigel, have you got Alfred the Great in cryogenic storage? Does he have an autumn-winter collection out?

(That means capes will be in again, won't it? So sweet of you to give us MNers the heads up on that one, Nige... )

I just looked to see what the UKIP colours are and, my poor eyes, that is an ugly website.

If that yellow and pink pound sign logo is anything to go by, I never want to see the UKIP vision of new British design!

Here are their election leaflets from last year:

Lurid pink and yellow straight from Barbie: The Movie.

That's Barbie the popular fashion doll, not Klaus Barbie if any UKIP fans are reading.

MrsDeVere, Battenburgs surely have a rich Teutonic heritage, in keeping with the acceptable racial profile of UKIP teatime treats.

It's those degenerate Welsh cakes we should all be shunning. Feckless, cowardly Celtic pastries that they are...

Isn't Battenburg the real name of our beloved first family?