Nigel Farage: Poundland Enoch Powell or Britain’s Own Mad Vlad Zhirinovsky? – Beastrabban\’s Weblog

Last Updated: December 12, 2014By

Russell Brand was in The Independent and on MSN News today, writes the Beast.

The paper and the internet news service were reporting the spat between him and the Kippers’ Fuehrer on Question Time last night. The revolutionary, author and film star had called Farage a ‘Poundland Enoch Powell’. The Duce of the anti-EU right had responded by declaring that Brand had a messiah-complex.

It’s not hard to see Brand’s point, and the comparison’s a good one. Powell and Farage are both right-wing, anti-immigration politicians, and from a certain point of view Farage is definitely rather more downmarket than the man whose former schoolfellows used to call ‘Scowly Powelly’. Powell after all was something of an academic, who taught classics at one of the Australian universities. He was also multilingual and could speak Urdu. Farage, by contrast tries to promote himself as something of a man of the people, an ordinary bloke, who likes a beer in a pub and smokes.

For the rest of the article, visit Beastrabban\’s Weblog, but here’s one more snippet before you do:

Farage is wilier, shrewder, and far more subtle than Powell or Zhirinovsky. He is, however, like them a right-wing populist, and particularly like Zhirinovsky in adopting a pose of enjoying working class tastes in order to gain votes and advance an anti-working class agenda.

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One Comment

  1. Landless Peasant December 13, 2014 at 10:37 pm - Reply

    Someone needs to slyly drop a trip into Fromage’s pint….

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