I HAVE known and liked Nigel Farage for more than 20 years and I am not going to dance on his grave.
But I fear that’s where his career is heading for the most consequential rightwing figure of our age.
Nigel Farage may now be the trigger for five more Labour years under another limp leftie PM Credit: PA
Without Farage, there would have been no Brexit and without him, there can be no Reform UK Credit: Getty
In which case, his legacy will be to open the door to five more years of the most socialist regime in UK history.
Which is a tragedy for the man in the Union Jack socks who can justly claim to have saved this country as a sovereign nation state.
Without , there would have been no . Without him, there can be no .
And without Reform, there is nothing to stop winning a snap .
will be gobsmacked by this unexpected gift.
Until just two days ago, he could not have risked an . He had nothing to sell but his sunny smile.
Today, he has no choice — and nothing to lose. Only a total amateur could fail to clean up from this catastrophic failure of basic political housekeeping.
when the by- election is held.
The timing will be crucial to his own strategy for a national poll later in the year.
He now has the luxury of time to prepare for battle.
So we are witnessing the sudden death of a political movement which began as the UK Independence Party, morphed into the , and now Reform. Or, to simply name names, .
Nobody else has the force of personality to hold this one-man band together as a coherent fighting force.
So having spent his life fighting predatory socialism, Nigel may now be the trigger for five more years under another limp leftie PM.
Nobody else has the force of personality to hold the one-man band of Reform UK together as a coherent fighting force Credit: PA
Without Reform, there is nothing to stop Andy Burnham winning a snap general election Credit: Splash
As of this week, Reform has led every single opinion poll.
It sagged a little at the Makerfield by-election, but there was still good reason to believe Farage could end up as Prime Minister.
That is no longer true. is straight out of the playbook — the “Fight, Fight, Fight” battle cry of an innocent man against grotesque injustice.
But this is not America. Nigel is not quite in the clear.
And there is no injustice. The financial affairs of a man aspiring to lead this country cannot be entirely private.
A wannabe PM simply cannot say it’s none of our business.
We are entitled to query his who dishes out gifts of £5million in cash.
The crypto trade is too close for comfort to the vilest of organised .
Trump’s recently revealed $1.4BILLION profit from crypto deals while serving as President of the only adds to the whiff of unproven corruption.
But this whiff has turned into something stronger with The Sunday Times’ scoop on Nigel’s relationship with , a convicted fraudster who calls him “Daddy”.
Thirty-something Cottrell, aka “Posh George”, also has a record as a gambler ready to risk millions at a single casino table sitting.
Somehow, he manages to fund accommodation for Farage in a luxury mansion a stone’s throw from Buckingham Palace. How? And why?
Farage was the man in the Union Jack socks who could justly claim to have saved this country as a sovereign nation state Credit: PA
The public are entitled to query his links with a crypto-billionaire who dishes out gifts of £5million in cash Credit: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press
Once these sort of leaks begin, they are hard to stop. There will be more.
Farage has many enemies who want revenge for Brexit.
But this is no establishment stitch-up or media conspiracy. It is just a free Press probing embarrassing truths.
Indeed, it was thanks to our democratic free Press that Nigel famously exposed the misdeeds of Coutts, the private bankers who tried to close down his account.
Dame Alison Rose, the chief executive of after the Press revealed she had “debanked” Farage simply because of his political views.
In this world of political high drama, you live and you die by the sword — just as Nigel himself has since leaving the prosperous world of City trading.
If my predictions are correct, this will be a sad end to a remarkable political life.
Nigel Farage has brought real joy to this nation. Who can forget his interrogation of newly elected but insignificant EU chief Herman Van Rompuy — still worth a watch on .
Van Rompuy shrivelled like a scorched leaf under the brash MEP’s fire.
“Who are you?” roared Farage. “You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.
“I’ve never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.”
Farage was speaking for Britain. The new president never recovered.
It’s a truism that “all political careers end in tears”.
I’m not sure this would be entirely true of Nigel Farage.
I was not alone in wondering whether he was the right man to be Prime Minister.
I believe Nigel had similar doubts about himself.
He did not really want to fight the last election.
He stood as an MP under pressure from his millions of followers.
The raffish bruiser does not readily share power. He would have railed against Cabinet solidarity on issues over which he had no final say.
And he had other fish to fry, none of which involved a gruelling 24/7 working week, big decisions every 15 minutes, no privacy and little thanks.
Farage’s career will not end in tears.
He has given us plenty of belly laughs at his opponents’ expense.
He has given us the Joy of Brexit. And he will have the last laugh.
Eze Chidiebere Paul
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