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Evan Bartlett
Dec 08, 2014
Nigel Farage turned up late to a £25-a-head meet-the-leader Ukip event in Wales yesterday, blaming "open-door immigration" for the fact that the M4 is "not as navigable as it used to be".
Here are the other things the descendant of French refugees has blamed on foreigners...
Changing the landscape of the UK
In one of his most strident attacks on immigration, Mr Farage said parts of the country have "frankly become unrecognisable" and look "like a foreign land". (He didn't say if this included the M4).
Multilingual train carriages
In an interview with LBC radio's James O'Brien, which has since been described as a "car crash", the Ukip leader referred to a recent train journey he had taken in suburban London (one of the most multicultural cities on the planet, which also welcomes over 16 million tourists a year).
"It was a stopper going out and we stopped at London Bridge, New Cross, Hither Green. It was not until we got past Grove Park that I could hear English being audibly spoken in the carriage," he said. Presumably forgetting that his German wife probably speaks German when calling her German family back in Germany, as Mr O'Brien pointed out.
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