What a viral car crash video reveals about Nigel Farage
She yelled abuse that sounded like one word: “wanker”. He has just quit his constituency of Clacton and dared his critics to run against him in a byelection, only to discover that his main opponent will be a man who wears a rubbish bin on his head for a laugh. The Labour government thought it could dismiss Farage but has instead crumbled in the face of his attacks and its own mistakes over the past two years.
- ▪She yelled abuse that sounded like one word: “wanker”.
- ▪He has just quit his constituency of Clacton and dared his critics to run against him in a byelection, only to discover that his main opponent will be a man who wears a rubbish bin on his head for a laugh.
- ▪The Labour government thought it could dismiss Farage but has instead crumbled in the face of his attacks and its own mistakes over the past two years.
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