The Farrago

Did you hear Farage yesterday 'talking' at the EU Parliament?

He told the legally elected representatives of 27 nations that they were behaving like the Mafia towards the UK Brexit people, and when challenged only conceded that since there were 'national sensitivities' he would change his description of MEPs to 'gangsters.' Despite his years of working in politics, it seems it never occurred to Farage that there are things you shouldn't do at all in the EU Parliament. And insulting the members of the Parliament is among them.

You've heard of sore losers. Farage and co are sore winners.

Despite having done a lot to ensure the UK leaves the European community after the referendum, Farage is still not happy. Like a lot of other 'Brexiters' I've heard and a few I've spoken to, he thinks the EU Parliament, the press, the UK government (who have to deliver Brexit) and, ach, who knows who else? are against leaving the EU and will do anything and everything to stop the process begun by invoking Article 50. It's not true, of course.

Believe me, Mr Farage, if there was a legal way to do it, the 48% of voters who wanted to remain in the EU would have found it.

The problem the Brexiters have is that the rest of us keep asking questions. We want to know what's going on. What is the plan? A decade or two from now, what will the UK look like? Who will the UK be trading with? What chance is there that the UK will still be the 5th or 6th - depending on which newspaper you read - wealthiest nation on the planet. It looks as if no one - I repeat, no one - can assure us our earnings and our savings will be safe. Brexit remains a leap in the dark.

And the great thing about being Nigel Farage is that you are not going to be held to account for the success or failure of the Brexit process. No, the chumps in the Tory Party will have to not just get the UK out of the EU but forge new partnerships with an indifferent world and then explain to the electorate why things are going badly.

Meanwhile, Farage is still there in the EU Parliament earning, I'm told, £84,000 a year + expenses of maybe the same amount or more.

I just can't imagine anyone in Scotland voting for union with that lot. If you're a Unionist, I have to ask: how bad does it have to get? How far removed from Farage and the grinning eejits in UKIP, not to mention the right wing of the Tory Party, do you have to feel before you decide it's time to find another solution?