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Farage accused of ‘politics of fear’ on campaign visit to Cumbria to meet ‘Workington Man’

The Brexit Party leader was confronted about why he was leading a political party yet refusing to stand as an MP himself by a voter as he visited Cumbria to meet what he accused Conservatives of patronisingly calling “Workington man”. 

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2019-11-06 15:58
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has been accused of profiting from the “politics of fear” by a voter as he visited Cumbria to meet what he accused Conservatives of patronisingly calling “Workington man”. The Brexit Party leader was confronted about why he was leading a political party yet refusing to stand as an MP himself.

 
 

Right-wing think tank Onward named “Workington man” as a key swing voter for the Tories ahead of the election on December 12.

It described a “middle England” voter who is an older, white, non-graduate man from the North of England, with strong rugby league traditions and a tendency to vote Labour.

Nigel Farage, who is the first of the party leaders to visit the town since it was named as a key target, claimed the idea was a “load of patronising cobblers” as he addressed a roomful of supporters in the Washington Hotel in Workington.

But he was later confronted in the street by Labour voter Karl Connor, 38, in the nearby town of Whitehaven.

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Nigel Farage is confronted by Karl Connor
Nigel Farage is confronted by Karl Connor (Eleanor Barlow/PA)

Mr Connor, from Egremont, said: “We don’t need you coming here. Why aren’t you standing as a candidate?”

He told the MEP he spoke with men in his rugby club about the 2016 referendum.

He said: “The people in there thought they were going to take back control, thought it was about Islam, they thought it was about things that it was nothing to do with at all, and you’re trying to profit from that politics of fear.”

Two security men separated the pair as they discussed the issues.

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Earlier Farage’s speech was interrupted midway through by a woman who shouted “fascist” as she left the room, followed by a woman wearing a “Bollocks to Brexit” T-shirt.

Farage acknowledged the Brexit Party could not win the election, and either Mr Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn would become prime minister.

But he gave the DUP as an example of the influence minority parties could have in Parliament and said Boris Johnson “changes his mind all the time”.

He said: “He’s very good at moving around with the wind and if we in the Brexit Party can get that wind strong, that says we wanted to leave the European Union and nothing less than that is good enough, he’ll change and we will get there.”

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