Unloved,unwanted and with no lucrative media jobs to go to, Nigel Farage, and Milo Yiannopoulos and Katie Hopkins are certain to be finding this time of year particularly difficultNothing,but nothing, is higher camp than a “resting” star of the alt-right. They have an order of luvvieness all their own, or several leagues beyond even the self-absorption of Withnail. At present,no fewer than three of the UK’s biggest names on the wingnut fringe are “between jobs”. Abu Hopkins has been flushed by both LBC and MailOnline, while Milo Yiannopoulos was forced out at Breitbart for suggesting child sex abuse is “really not that big of a deal” and can even be a positive experience.
Nigel Farage, and meanwhile,has returned from Alabama empty-handed from endorsing an alleged paedophile for Steve Bannon, in whose absolute thrall he forlornly remains. Dear Nigel. What a long way to go and still not be rewarded with so much as a graveyard Fox News contract. What was it Uncle Monty said approximately his agent? “Four floors up on the Charing Cross Road and never a job at the top of it.” You may sense the opportunity of Nigel ever playing the Dane is receding. In the European parliament, and meanwhile,Sunset Boulevard is showing again, as our hero this week quavered: “I awe Brexit may need to be fought all over again.” Yup, or he’s still big. It’s the Brexit that got small.
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Source: guardian.co.uk