Feminism's not for Farage

Do you know that Farage still uses the sound clip of Trump introducing: "Mr Nigel Farage" at a Trump rally during his election? As the introduction fades on Farage's nightly LBC radio show Farage obsequiously chimes: "Thank you Donald". Yes, Farage plays a clip of the President of the USA mentioning his name, then thanks him as though he's present in the studio. 

So, yesterday I wasn't too surprised to hear Farage defending Trump's right to say he wasn't a feminist. Well of course he did. After all Nigel is The Donald's UK mouthpiece. As the phone in proceeded so Farage was drawn in and asked if he was a himself a feminist. Of course Nigel denied any such thing. But in fairness, Farage doesn't actually get the nuances of the concept. A man as a feminist? WTF?

Listening to Farage waffle on in his typically blokish way was par for course, and I listened more out of laziness than anything else.

However, as the debate unfolded Farage became braver. So, not only is he a man's man, which obviously disqualifies him from the being a feminist, he then began expanding on how women had now achieved equality with men.

According to Nigel women have pretty much reached parity with men on wages. Yes, they're only about 20% behind men in field of earnings. Only 20% behind men! Here is a man living in a £4 million town house in Chelsea. He has scooped up around £4 million from his EU salary and expenses over the past 17 years. He also earns somewhere between £50 and £100 K per annum as an LBC presenter.

Despite earning between £290,000 and £340,000 a year Farage pleads poverty. He has claimed that he is the poorest person in politics. I suppose any man that considers himself a pauper with a six figure salary and a £4 M gaff in Chelsea can reasonably consider a 20% difference in earnings as parity.