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.

[Psammead]

Seems to me therefore that your soundbite goes against the spirit of the law as laid out by the Lisbon treaty and is being used to scare monger.

[madamimadam]

You're on half-term, aren't you Rinse?

[LadyBlaBlah]

Why are you PM'ing everyone Rinse off?

What will it take for you to understand that it is possible for someone to disagree with you.

This mansplaining is becoming too common on here.

[Psammead]

Meh. Time to stop giving Rinse anymore of the spotlight, I think.

[DamselInDisguise]

NoSuchThing: yes, clearly the issues were all beyond us silly little women.

[Twit]

QUOTE 'I don't actually waste my votes on him anyway.'

So who do you vote for?



It can't be UKIP, you've done such a marvellous job of alienating the very people Mr Farage wanted to speak to so much he invited himself over.



You seem to be unable to accept that some people women might be just as, if not more able to argue constructively and show actual evidence to back themselves up. You are getting angry at being shown up by women. Therefore you resort to good old fashioned foot stamping. (Oh hang on...)
Saying our children will hate the oestrogen out of us is disgusting, no wonder Mr Farage was/is embarrassed by the likes of you.
At least that's what he said on here.
Anyway off you pop there's a dear.

[Twit]

Oh look another one telling us (to all intents and purposes) to get back to our mothering and homemaking and leave the clever stuff to the men.

Why don't you pop along with your friend dear?

[DamselInDisguise]

I thought I'd post the latest PM I got from rinseoff here, as he's obviously too scared to put it on the thread.

  "I am sexist, but only if you're a grumpy closed minded old women like yourself, and lol if that actually offended you!"

Now please stop PMing me, rinseoff. This is the second time I've asked.

[madamimadam]

'It's a shame so few people on here have neither the courage to move away from the herd nor the intellect to understand the issues at hand..'

Sheesh. What is it with you UKIPers and your refusal to accept that women can come - independently - to factually-supported, substatiated, critical analyses of 'the issues at hand'?

Psst. Nosuch You do know that we still have the vote, don't you?

[madamimadam]

Ach. 'substantiated'. Obv.

[madamimadam]

MNHQ, is the PMing of people here really on?

I mean, it doesn't really look very good for UKIP that having got members to register for the webchat, got a prospective candidate on here, their press officer, non-UK voters etc that they are now resorting to PMing MNers.

It really does look like an attempt to bully and intimidate posters who haven't been won over by NF.

And could you please ask Nigel if this course of action is one that he is proud of?

Because to me, it looks like dirty tricks.

[HelenMumsnet]

Hello. Anyone who's a Mumsnet member can PM another member.

But you can block PMs from individuals, if you like, by clicking the red 'Block' icon next to their name on a message to you.

And, if you are getting PMs that concern you in any way, please do report them to us.

We do not look kindly on people misusing our PM system.

[HHLimbo]

MNers, please look into standing as an MEP in the next EU elections

The EU needs you! (ps should be fairly easy, as we have seen from this thread the standard is not high)

"Plus £1m over 5 years in pay/allowances Mr Farage says!" - CaptNancy I am putting your name down!

[DamselInDisguise]

Thanks Helen.

I didn't know we could block unwanted PMs.

I feel a bit sorry for NF (well, sort of) as his so-called supporters seem to have gone all out to alienate mumsnetters and have used a range of annoying tactics to do so. I can't imagine he's delighted with them.

[Psammead]

Yes please! Send us some decent representatives of the UK. It's getting embarrassing.

[dawntigga]

Just a general observation that a party that is not racist probably wouldn't ask the vile Sean Gabb to stand for a seat for them.

JustSayingTiggaxx

[MigratingCoconuts]

Well, I have just read through all of this thread and thoroughly enjoyed it!

Can't say that I was impressed with UKIP and their 'supporters'.

I don't like being told that if I disagree with an opinion it must be because I read the Guardian, listen to the BBC, am a man hater, am ignorant of the true facts or some such.

loved the herding cats thing!

[Susiewho]

I thought it was an excellent webchat.

Nigel Farage represented his party well, I thought. Now people are better informed in the policies of UKIP, even fewer people will vote for them.

Job well done! :)

[midnightexpress]

BBC's take on the webchat

[BarbaraSeville]

I notice they took atrociouscook seriously then. That was the funniest question of the whole thread

[Psammead]

What SGJ said.

Love the fact that the only support they could find was a UKIP troll and a sarcastic mumsnetter.

[Psammead]

SGM sorry, typo.

[Twit]

did they not read that custard person's posts then? I could have sworn he had only joined to post on the thread

[cakeywakey]

I was wondering which thread they'd read too, some strange points to pick up, especially with the things NF was saying. Hope other news outlets will read the thread for themselves, rather than relying on the BBC's take on it.