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

[KatieMumsnet]

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.

Rinseoff: do run along dear. Stuff like this matters for our children's futures.

That went well.

So because Alan Sugar also holds a crappy point of view, makes it ok to discriminate against women who might have children in the workplace? Wow. Seriously.

Sorry for the caps lock and bold 'shouting' but you'd think the pusillanimous little weasel would at least have the integrity answer that one, wouldn't you?

"should not even have been a candidate for the party, let alone elected as an MEP."

Its now clear that this applies to more than one UKIP MEP!

I am quite gobsmacked

But also PMSL @ what Justine and co will be saying to him. "yes, that went, erm, well". Silence. "Great". "Anyway, thanks again".

I really don't think alan sugar should held up as an example of all that is good and right thinking in the world really.

I thought this went wonderfully. The ukip members came along and did their best to embarrass Nigel and then he came along and chewed his feet for and hour.

How long before the 'one culture' policy is taken down do you think?

Yes- Godfrey Bloom has also been accused by Nikki Sinclaire of calling her 'queer'- I'm sure it was just the way he said it...

words fail me!

Sutpendously failed to identify with the target audience (but then I supoose we're (mostly) not white men like himself!)

'Godfrey Bloom was 100% right'

'The trouble with Godfrey is that it's not what he says, it's sometimes the way in which he says it.'

So that's a yes, then, is it, Nigel to 'Ein Volk'?

Can we have an answer on this from him, please MN? He's said he's happy to answer it

that went as could be expected then!

Have tweeted Lord Sugar.

They're probably working on taking that one down as we type. Although, the ukip members will almost certainly be devastsated, they were quite keen on uniculture.

But MNHQ said he asked to come on... surely he knew what webchats were like?

Off the top of my head women of childbearing age who are such a burden to UK businesses:

Karren Brady
Nicola Horlick
Karen Millen
Emma Bridgewater
Cath Kidston
Christian Rucker
Rebecca Wade
Sam Roddick
JK Rowling (yes a writer but she created a billion pound industry)
Elizabeth Murdoch

Clearly british SMEs would be SO MUCH better off without the above.

So what was his favourite biscuit then??????

CptN. I think he wad arrogant enough to believe that he would be fine.

That said, he's presumably delighted ukip supporters, who've added MN to the list of 'marxist-leftist' conspirators against whom they rail.

^"Godfrey Bloom was given a seat on the European Parliament's women's rights committee on Tuesday.

But he told the media: "No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age."^

"Godfrey Bloom was 100% right"

he actually said this - on mumsnet!

the glaring hypocrisy is quite literally breathtaking and the glib answer to UKIP's dodgy allies in EDF is indicative of how low his estimation of people's intelligence is. He must've thought he'd be coming on to patronise some fluffy mummies. And to call Italian politics sexy,colourful etc is quite vomit inducing. It's actually debauched and corrupt.

I was of an opinion that he was a misguided soul but now i know he's in utter bad faith.

Maybe his PA is dyslexic, and he actually asked to go on NM?

Who elected this idiot!?

I think he'd've been torn to shreds even if he'd done a webchat on club penguin.

Damn- but this should have been done before the election.... could have halved those 900000 votes.

Ah CaptN, he certainly came to the wrong place.