Nigel Farage.....Hero 😞

[newbieman1978]

Slightly worry that Nigel Farage seems to have become some sort of cult hero figure with the teens at my sons high school.

Is this more widespread??

Seriously they are constantly posting things on various social media. Things like Nigel Farage my bae ...... Pictures of him with captions..... Top banter from Nige...,. Vote UKIP for top laughs.

I don't understand what's going on! I don't think my ds is taking it seriously at all and we chatted today about UKIP policy and how I personally don't agree with much of it.

I just worry how this may influence them in the future and obviously some of the 6th form are able to vote this time.

This is, perhaps, a reason to keep the voting age at 18,

Teens often espouse causes which mystify and even enrage their parents. To a great extent, you have to just let them get on with it. It's one of the things where you can try to impart your values, but they have to make up their own minds about.

Not at my school. Lots of green/labour support, a core group of quite vocal Tories and hardly any ukippers in sixth form. Maybe some lower down the school. We've done a lot to engage 6th form in the election though and help them understand policies. Perhaps your son's school needs to do more? Some schools shy away from it but it's important to address politics. If the voting age is lowered it's essential.

'I don't understand what's going on! I don't think my ds is taking it seriously at all'

I think he is taking it very seriously indeed and I commend his indefatigability.

The progressives are in desperate straits and their last throw of the dice is to give the vote to 16 year olds in the hope that they have the 16 year old vote in the bag based on their state-sponsored BBC type politically correct teaching in schools etc. But as your son and his astute friends show, the progressives don't understand the people. They don't understand that the young cannot be fooled so easily and are similar to the older generation and will also resist the politically correct progressives with statements like

"Top banter from Nige...,. Vote UKIP for top laughs"

''I don't understand what's going on'

What is going on is that people want the truth and are sick of being spun and told to be politically correct. Farage is the only genuine politician with courage who says what he thinks. That is why people say "top banter" and "top laughs". People are laughing at the politically correct politicians, the spinners who say they support Aston Villa and pretend to wear a scarf and shake a rattle at their home ground and then have a brain fade about West Ham.

Even young people want the truth and genuine people.

Young people recognise courage and laughs and are rebellious and won't be conned by the politically correct spinners from Oxbridge who form our political class.

"There's always Nigel. The Ukip leader is the most interesting figure on the British political landscape. As yet, we have no one even remotely resembling him, but history urges us to pay close attention.

My English friends tend to smirk and look at their shoes whenever Nigel's name is mentioned. This is because, being mainly Labour luvvies, they buy into the Guardian caricature of Farage as a borderline racist spiv with that somewhat paradoxical British anti-value, "no class".

"To me, Nigel reads straight and smart, and yet he is undeniably an aberrant figure in contemporary British politics, a product of the enforced non-discussion of immigration insisted upon by the tsars of political correctness.
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Farage is the kind of figure who erupts from silence. His own man, by no means a natural politician, he has been propelled into the public arena by virtue of the cowardice of mainstream politicians"

www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/planning-for-a-homegrown-nigel-31171685.html

Really claig? I dunno about "borderline racist spiv". I always thought Nigel F was just your bog standard middle England pompous sexist boorish white middle aged man. But you go right ahead with your mythologising...

I hardly think "vote UKIP for top laughs" is supportive of Farridge and his drones. More that they are a joke of a party even to teenagers?

Yes it sounds like they are making fun of it.

'I hardly think "vote UKIP for top laughs" is supportive of Farridge and his drones'

That's where you're wrong. The mood of the public is rebellion. We are laughing at them, laughing at the spinners, sticking two fingers up to their orthodoxies. British revolutions are based on laughter. We will bring the pompous mighty spinners down by laughing at them.

More people tune in to interviews with Farage than with any of the rest of our political class. We're told we're not supposed to listen to Farage by them, we're told that Farage is an "odious Victor Meldrew" figure by our pompous out of touch political class, but we tune in to watch Farage for a laugh because we know that he will tell the truth and stick it to our pompous political class and that is what makes us laugh because you have to laugh at them or else you'd cry.

We will beat them by laughing at them.

"Top banter from Nige...,. Vote UKIP for top laughs"

Absolutely.

Nah...they're making fun.

The People's Revolution is fun. The People's Army is "top laughs".

Nigel is genuine? Seriously?!!!!!!

I've never heard anything so naïve in all my life.

Farage is never without a smile, he is always laughing, always happy, always with a pint and a fag. The People's Army is always laughing.

"Vote UKIP for top laughs"

The reason that Boris Johnson has any popularity at all is because he is "almost top laughs", but nothing like Nige.

Bloody hell. You've really fallen for it.

'You've really fallen for it.'

If you mean, I agree with the Irish journalist who wrote

"Farage is the kind of figure who erupts from silence. His own man, by no means a natural politician, he has been propelled into the public arena by virtue of the cowardice of mainstream politicians"

then yes. It is "top laughs" to see Farage take their cowardice on. It is top entertainment and that is why more people tune in when Farage is on, than when any of the rest of the bland, auto-cued, phoney spinners are on.

This is from someone at the LSE

"Charlie Beckett explores the lessons in political communication illustrated by Nigel Farage and UKIP in the UK. In an age of scepticism, one value that the voters want – authenticity – is rendered undeliverable by a professional political class that seek to secure their power with risk-averse, non-interactive communication. Farage has been able to appeal to voters precisely because he is genuine and unrehearsed, and because UKIP exists outside of the political mainstream."

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/05/18/political-communication-in-the-age-of-austerity-unless-you-can-claim-genuine-authenticity-like-ukips-nigel-farage-then-you-will-struggle-to-convince/

To see someone finally tell the truth, to see a genuine politician, to see the shock on the faces of our professional politically correct political class when Farage confronts them with the truth is so unusual, so extraordinary that it makes people laugh. It is "top laughs".

There is nothing brave about siding with the bully boys, the ignorant, the red top believers.

It's possibly the worst form of political cowardice that there is.

'There is nothing brave about siding with the bully boys, the ignorant, the red top believers. '

But it is the Sun who backs the Etonian, Cameron It is the Sun who is anti Farage and the People's Army. It is the Tories who had vans driven around encouraging illegal imigrants to go home. The Sun supports them, it is against the People's Army.

It's definitely a joke to my son at the mo but hey it could be a very astute tactic by UKIP to get to the youngsters. After all Farage has admitted this general election is seen as a starting point for UKIP. Children of my sons age will be eligible to vote next time around.

We do our best to keep politics a topic in our household so hopefully come his time ds will be able to make a decent informed decision.

But other parties need to take note, for the youngsters, social media is where it's at.