So the second debate between Farage and Clegg ended up with an even bigger win for Farage than last week! Of course, in a sense it was the 'lightweight' bout that precedes the (so-called!) heavyweight contest between Cameron and Miliband next year. Even so there was some fascinating detail in the debriefing provided by Simon Kellner, the boss of the YouGov polling organisation, in which he disclosed that compared to last week, not only had a much larger segment of LibDem voters supported Farage but, even more important, so had a large wedge of Labour voters. Of course, the Metro 'sophisticates' gathered at the BBC studio were shocked, I tell you, shocked, that Farage had used the phrase, and I write from memory, 'the white working-class or underclass'. I thought at the time that was a shrewd move aimed at the weak underbelly of the Labour party's north London 'intelligentsia' who, for all their fancy rhetoric, wouldn't recognize the working-class if it rose up and hanged them all!
So now we must wait for the European elections next month and it will be fascinating to see if UKIP can damage Labour as much as it is likely to damage the Tories and the Lib-Dems. Go, Nigel, go!
