Nigel Farage is still a coward

I cannot help but be amused by the recent comments by the ex-UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom.

First of all, I repeat that Nigel Farage is a coward.  He got angry with Godfrey Bloom not because Bloom did anything particularly bad, but rather because the national press got all uptight about him, and Farage does not have the brass neck to stand up to the press - or at least not on this occasion.

Bloom jokingly referred to women at a meeting as sluts.  He is perhaps one of the few people left in this country who actually know the correct meaning of that word.  It was ill-advised, but no big deal.  He was wrong to swat Michael Crick with a brochure, but Crick was behaving provocatively.  In the circumstances, Farage should have stood by his fellow MEP.

So far as I am aware, the conference brochure was not designed by Bloom, and I wonder how Farage would have reacted to Crick's question.

Bloom remarks that No sane individual from a successful professional background would now go into [politics]. The vilification and lies overwhelm anyone with conviction.

I am a bit puzzled here.  If the problems are mendacity and vilification, then surely no sane individual would want to enter politics.  I fail to see how the professional background has anything to do with it.  He continues:

I am paid as a Westminster MP, which is equivalent to the salary of a bright young lawyer in Leeds or Hull and about what I was earning in 1989.

We now seem to be getting to the nub of the matter.  The salary of an MEP is I believe £66,396, and I will take Bloom's word for it that lawyers tend to earn more.  Nevertheless  £66,396 is more than the salary of a university professor, and also more than the typical earnings of road maintenance workers - but of course they do an important job and do it well.

MEPs can top up their salaries with allowances, and one former UKIP MEP once boasted that he could make shedloads of money.  Also, would Godfrey Bloom like to discuss the voting records of UKIP MEPs?  Would Nigel Farage like to tell us what percentage of votes he has taken part in during the time he has been an MEP?

In other news, Prime Minister David Cameron has ruled out the possibility of the Conservative Party forming a pact with UKIP.  He has even called upon UKIP voters to back his party instead.  Just how stupid does he think UKIP voters are?

My previous comments on UKIP include:

The UKIP hamster

Another storm in the UKIP tea cup

UKIP councillor throws in the towel

A challenge to the coward Farage

Another attempt to smear UKIP

UKIP have no need to fear Sked