Why Farage will vanquish Lowe

Nigel Farage is Kentish. Downe, the Bromley village where he grew up, was gobbled up by Greater London just two days before his first birthday. But the London Government Act could not stamp the Kentishness out of baby Nigel. He would never call himself a Londoner — and nor would anybody else in Downe. He has even suggested that the entire borough of Bromley should secede from Greater London. London is “the city”; it is for making money and having fun. But Kent is fishing, family, and freedom. Kent is home. Kent always was deepest Farageland. It sums up Farage’s political vision and persona: close enough to London to understand it, far enough to be in touch with the provincial commonfolk. In this, Farage differs much from his rival on the Right, Rupert Lowe. Though both cut their teeth in t