UKIP main man in plane crash.

[Duffy Moon]

http://bit.ly/bKleUy

[Undesired Walrus]

OT, but from the article:

Queues reported at polling stations as big turnout predicted

Hooray! Not all is lost!

[Dave Rogers]

Also OT, from further down the page:


David Cameron has just been driven away after casting his vote at his local polling station.


I wonder whether pitchforks and firebrands were involved.

Dave

[garethdjb]

Also OT, from further down the page:



I wonder whether pitchforks and firebrands were involved.

Dave

Coffee-sprayingly funny! Nice one.

[zooterkin]

Just to quibble with the thread title, is Farage still their 'main man'? I know he's not their leader anymore, but he seems to be their only media presence.

ETA: Also from that Grauniad page (updated since this thread was started):

1.49pm: My colleague Roger Browning has been giving Ukip candidate Nigel Farage's campaign plane some thought on Twitter:

Just a thought about Nigel Farage, you're not supposed to campaign on election day, so what was he doing up in a plane with a Ukip banner?

So, what was he doing? Is it an offence to campaign, or just a gentlemen's agreement?

[Reginald]

My son asked the question "Why did he have to be in the plane at all?"

I suppose it was in case anyone shouted questions.

[Rolfe]

You're allowed to yomp all over the landscape with party slogans and logos and so on. My car is currently festooned with party-logo posters and has a rather cute flag attachment clipped to the top of the side window.

So he has a plane, well, good luck to him.

.... couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.... :D

Rolfe.

[commandlinegamer]

Just to quibble with the thread title, is Farage still their 'main man'? I know he's not their leader anymore, but he seems to be their only media presence.

ETA: Also from that Grauniad page (updated since this thread was started):



So, what was he doing? Is it an offence to campaign, or just a gentlemen's agreement?

AFAIK, the only place you're not allowed to campaign on election day is within the polling places.

[Rolfe]

Even there....

I went in to vote wearing my party rosette. It's agreed that voters themselves can wear rosettes. When I go back wearing my "polling agent" hat is when I have to take it off.

Rolfe.

[Reginald]

Independent EU military anti-aircraft missile test firing hailed as a success.

[odeed]

Lucky to be alive, pictures in link

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7686463/Nigel-Farage-of-Ukip-plane-crash-in-pictures.html?image=1

though he could have stood for the Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality party

[Architect]

.... couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.... :D


What about Nick whossisname from the Bigotted Nasty Party?

[Rolfe]

You're right, of course. I did think of adding that caveat! :D

Rolfe.

[Dave_46]

The UKIP campaign never really got off the ground, did it.

Dave

(not original, I nicked it off The News Quiz)

[Agatha]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y74/rosysparkle/HYzCK.png

:D

[commandlinegamer]

Tut, tut.

[richardm]

How ironic that it was a Polish-built aircraft that he was in at the time.