Quote of the day 21st May 2015

"Watching Ukip over the last few days has been like watching the final scene from Blazing Saddles. All it needed was Raheem Kassam to burst into the Sky newsroom and scream 'they’ve hit Bunny!' and the spectacle would have been complete. A shock and awful strategy? You wanted one, you got it"

(Dan Hodges in the Telegraph in an article arguing that Nigel Farage is the Europhiles' greatest weapon.)

Incidentally, although Dan's predictions about what would happen in the election proved vastly more accurate than those of most observers - he is one of the very few people who was correctly predicting a Tory victory - he did underestimate the number of votes UKIP would get and promised to run naked down Whitehall wearing a Nigel Farage mask and singing "Land of Hope and Glory" if they got more than 6%.

(link - https://twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/280038576283062273)

UKIP did in fact get about double that and apparently Dan intends to keep his promise in about a week's time in support of two great charities,Terrence Higgins Trust and Elizabeth's Legacy of Hope.

Comments

Jim said…
Well, Dan is indeed a good sport. Well done Dan. Not for what you got right, but for paying the penalty when you were wrong, many politicians could learn from that, still waiting for Paddy Ashdown to eat his hat :)
Chris Whiteside said…
Yes, it will be commendable if he does keep his promise!

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