Nigel Farrage’s interview where he claimed ‘no British
person’ would be his secretary, and so he has to employ his German wife, has
rightly been used as evidence of the confusion at the heart of UKIP. Evidently
the UKIP leader has little knowledge of how plenty of ordinary British workers
do far more unpleasant jobs, with worse hours, and for lower pay, than the good
Frau Farrago.
However, the awkward pauses in the Nick Robinson encounter expose
another significant hole in UKIP’s ideology and mission; and a hole that Nick
Clegg has no interest in pointing out. Farrage did highlight that UKIP was not
in favour of preventing immigration for skilled workers, which is why the
thrust of their latest dubious election campaign is that Eastern Europeans are
taking work from builders, not bankers. But what’s the difference?
