Farage really does need to tone it down a bit, doesn't he ?

[7evens]

He seems to go into spasms when greeting people, the involuntary reverse snap knee bend, contorted facials and grossly over exaggerated laughter that would make any normal chap recoil in his company.
I can't stop thnking of this Python sketch whenever I clap eyes on him.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fHR2PvFd834/TkxAssi3kiI/AAAAAAAAIMw/Dp2E1o5OnKM/s1600/twit.jpg

I don't like him.. I don't like him at all.

[Berni]

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-620/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/9/2/1409679041531/Nigel-Farage-and-Douglas--012.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

I think Carswell is actually genetically ugly rather than being some sort of stroke victim.

http://rscca.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/300910-mhs-095_1.jpg

[7evens]

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

There and Canvey Island.

Is it any wonder I moved hundreds of miles away?

[Berni]

immigration. This has never been a secret. The mainstream parties have simply refused to acknowledge these uncomfortable truths and, in that context, something like UKIP was inevitable.

I'm just glad it's a bunch of relatively harmless clowns like them rather than something more sinister, tbh.

[Brentwood]

http://kimjongfarage.tumblr.com/

[Berni]

And, if I have my way, I never will.

[Classic Jorge]

They set it up for us for a break when our kid was a few months old, drove home the next day.

Honestly though, you've never quite experienced ennui until you've holidayed in a static caravan next to the mud flats of the thames estuary.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's no wonder you're terminally bitter and hate this country.

Therapy might help, j.

[7evens]

my mind turned to those F4 Phantoms dropping napalm over Vietnam.
I think perhaps that even Middlesborough may be more appealing to the unsuspecting holiday maker, in search of a fine day out.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

That's one of the singularly most depressing places ever. I think that neck of the woods scarred me so much I fell in love with moors.

[Berni]

destinations anyway? They're clearly awful, awful places, so why go there?

As to the mobile caravan, it seems to me that the one upside of the bloody things - the ability to go where you like - is fatally undermined by the fact that you have to stay in designated caravan parks. It's essentially like choosing to holiday in a series of housing estates full of ghastly people, isn't it?

[Pokster]

[Monty91]

final.

Weirdest f**king place I've ever been in my life.

[7evens]

It really is a land that the rest of the country forgot.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pixies/2013/3/20/1363801167318/Dan-Guy-Brooklands-estate-008.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

The most crushing thing about poverty isn't the financial side of things, it's the poverty of imagination and ambition that comes with it that gets you. It's there to help you not get your hopes up or to get you too far above your station, lest you crash back down like a hubristic icarus.

You should watch the Meades doc about Caravans, it's brilliant. In defence of the in-laws, they are genuinely a bit more adventurous with their caravanning and prefer to stay on farms with one or two births, rather than those awful places with shared showers and ****ters.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

My parents spent 25 years building a business without going on holiday :shrug:

Where did this repulsive, self-defeating sense of entitlement come from?

[Berni]

rural northern deviancy than I was prepared for. :-(

Shared showers and lavatories? Do these things not even have facilities in them? Jesus. :-O

[Classic Jorge]

My Grandad was a bin man and my nan was a cleaner, a week there was the little thing that kept them going throughout the rest of year's drudgery.

[7evens]

It flys under the radar and has a low government ranking priority against the more widely publicised areas of deprevation like Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Liverpool, Boro etc.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/20/budget-2013-jaywic k-aspirations-poorest (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/20/budget-2013-jaywick-aspirations-poorest)

[Classic Jorge]

They are genuinely quite intrepid, one minute they'll be in Jura and the next in Padstow.

[Luis Anaconda]

And I assume by the people you are generally referring to the those you describe as morons who don't deserve the vote and I quote


"They won't, of course, which is why universal suffrage is such a terrible, terrible idea. People are morons."

[Berni]

[Berni]

I didn't actually say UKIP were a good idea, did I? Simply said that they were democratically inevitable.

[Classic Jorge]

So they vote for a millionaire former banker and son of a stockbroker, bankrolled by Stuart Wheeler, whose policies are - beyond the obvious ones - f**king terrifying.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

A trek and a half in those days. In a designated park as such but overlooking the harbour and bay. To the left was the dramatic silhouette of Mountbatten’s castle though he was dead by the time we went there. At that age it was simply a view, now I would imagine it to be stunning in its beauty.

Late teens, 5-6 of us, local pubs not asking any questions, the fun of getting total lost on the way home as we took the ‘obvious’ shortcut, fun which would of course quickly turn to frustration when we realised we were completely f**king lost, nowhere near said holiday home and in fact in a field full of livestock and ****e.

And back to the holiday home for more cans and vomiting.

A little basic, well very basic but great fun.

[Classic Jorge]

Then again I'm not cleaning people's **** up for 51 weeks a year and coming home to a tiny council flat.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Class traitor!

[Berni]

These are the glorious trials of youth.

As one gets older, however, I would prefer not to sit in a metal box while it pisses with rain. Or at all, really.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

But you will appreciate at the time we may as well have been in the Maldives so perfect was it.

I passed Mullaghmore a few years ago and took the opportunity to spin in, noticed said caravan park and yes it looked like a f**king kip.