Camilla Long "On the trail of the biggest joke of all", The Sunday Times (10 May 2015).
• Farage stood as the Ukip candidate in South Thanet. BBC News reported a statement from Kent Police on the incident Farage reported.
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[Published on the Sunday following the 2015 general election results] In a typically graceless gesture, he swept out before the speeches had finished on the pretext that another candidate had not played fair, but as far as I can see, neither did Farage, really, ever. For someone who arrived in politics claiming to be a good bloke, a man of the people, Farage led a strangely vicious, backstabbing, angry and unpleasant campaign, finally going so far as to report me to the Kent police for a "blatant" breach of electoral law (what?) after I joked on Have I Got News for You that I had spent more time in the constituency than he had. The comment supposedly broke the law because it misrepresented his campaign — a claim so ridiculous the police rejected the matter before Ukip had put the phone down (this is also a joke and not to be taken literally). But it was the first hint Farage really had lost it.

— Camilla Long on Nigel Farage

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "[Published on the Sunday following the 2015 general election results] In a typically graceless gesture, he swept out before the speeches had finished on the pretext that another candidate had not played fair, but as far as I can see, neither did Farage, really, ever. For someone who arrived in politics claiming to be a good bloke, a man of the people, Farage led a strangely vicious, backstabbing, angry and unpleasant campaign, finally going so far as to report me to the Kent police for a "blatant" breach of electoral law (what?) after I joked on Have I Got News for You that I had spent more time in the constituency than he had. The comment supposedly broke the law because it misrepresented his campaign — a claim so ridiculous the police rejected the matter before Ukip had put the phone down (this is also a joke and not to be taken literally). But it was the first hint Farage really had lost it." in the context of "Camilla Long "On the trail of the biggest joke of all", The Sunday Times (10 May 2015).
• Farage stood as the Ukip candidate in South Thanet. BBC News reported a statement from Kent Police on the incident Farage reported." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Camilla Long

Camilla Elizabeth Long (born 18 June 1978) is a British newspaper columnist for The Sunday Times.