La tercera rata salta del barco. Eso sí, no renuncia a su asiento en el Parlamento europeo, donde se retirará con una bonita pensión pagada por la UE. The irony.
P.S. ahora sí que empiezo a preguntarme quién está realmente detrás de esto, quién ha pagado a Boris y por qué Rupert Murdoch está contento como unas Pascuas (lo cual suele ser malo para las clases medias y bajas)
Nigel Farage resigns as Ukip leader after 'achieving political ambition' of Brexit
Man who campaigned for Britain to leave the EU says he is stepping down from leadership of the party
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Nigel Farage resigns as leader of Ukip: ‘I want my life back’
Rowena Mason and Peter Walker
Monday 4 July 2016 10.48 BST Last modified on Monday 4 July 2016 12.08 BST
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Nigel Farage is stepping down as leader of Ukip, saying he has done his bit for the cause of Britain leaving the EU.
Speaking at a press conference in Westminster, he said he had fulfilled his political ambitions after successfully campaigning for the UK to vote for Brexit.
“During the referendum I said I wanted my country back … now I want my life back,” Farage said on Monday.
It is the third time he has resigned as Ukip leader, but he dismissed the idea of coming back again in the future and claimed standing as an MP was no longer top of his bucket list.
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Farage, 52, was originally leader from 2006 to 2009 and came back to the job after the 2010 election. He then stepped down after the 2015 election, only to “unresign” just days later to help lead the campaign to leave the EU.
The MEP on Monday insisted this resignation was for good but raised the prospect of taking some role in negotiating Britain’s exit from the EU, saying he “might have something to give”.
The race will now begin to find a successor, with possible candidates including deputy leader Paul Nuttall, immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe, culture spokesman Peter Whittle, Suzanne Evans, who is currently suspended, Diane James, an MEP, or the party’s only MP, Douglas Carswell.
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Nigel Farage poses with leave supporters before the EU referendum. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
Carswell, who has denied he wants to be leader and has frequently clashed with Farage, tweeted a smiley face emoji in response to the resignation.
Speaking afterwards, Nuttall, an MEP for the north-west, said he was considering whether to run. Ukip’s deputy leader is thought to be the candidate who could pose the biggest threat to Labour in its northern heartlands.
“The Labour party is in a mess and the Conservative party is in a mess. Now what Ukip needs is to come together to work hard and move forward and win seats, not just in local elections,” he said.
Farage declined to be drawn on who should be the new leader of Ukip but said someone would be in place before its autumn conference.
He also refused to say who he backed as the new Tory leader but argued that it must be one of the three – Andrea Leadsom, Michael Gove or Liam Fox – who backed Britain’s exit from the EU.
Farage’s resignation comes after days of speculation that Arron Banks, the Ukip donor and leader of the Leave.EU group, could distance himself more from the party and form a more distinct political movement.
Leave.EU has also released polling suggesting its members support Leadsom, the Conservative energy minister, to become the next prime minister.
Farage insisted Ukip would continue as a party in its current form but also went on to hint at possibilities for closer cooperation with the Tories in future. He said if there were an election this autumn, he would not want Ukip to stand against Brexit MPs.
Looking back at the EU referendum, he said Ukip was instrumental in getting David Cameron to hold the poll and winning the result for the leave campaign.
He caused intense controversy during the EU referendum campaign by unveiling a poster of a queue of migrants with the slogan Breaking Point, which some senior Tory and Labour politicians said had echoes of Nazi propaganda.
But the Ukip leader was unrepentant about the campaign and insisted the party’s best days may be yet to come.
Part of Ukip’s role in future would be to stop “weakness or appeasement from the British government” when it comes to negotiating Brexit, he said.
“I am fully behind the party. Let’s see where we are in two and a half years’ time,” he said. “But I don’t ned to be leader of Ukip. I will be part of the 2020 campaign if we don’t get what we want. I am not a career politician. I came into this business because I wanted my country back. We’ve got our country back. If the terms aren’t right, I will do whatever I can to help people to make it right.”
Farage gave a short speech about how Brexit should be carried out and the what the future holds for Ukip before revealing he was standing down.
“I have decided to stand aside as leader of Ukip,” he said. “The victory for the ‘leave’ side in the referendum means that my political ambition has been achieved. I came into this struggle from business because I wanted us to be a self-governing nation, not to become a career politician.
“Ukip is in a good position and will continue, with my full support to attract a significant vote. Whilst we will now leave the European Union, the terms of our withdrawal are unclear. If there is too much backsliding by the government and with the Labour party detached from many of its voters then Ukip’s best days may be yet to come.”
Answering questions from reporters, Farage said he and other Ukip MEPs would remain in the European parliament until the UK left and the roles no longer existed, something he hoped would happen within two years. He added: “The Ukippers will have been the turkeys who voted for Christmas.”
Este se ha marcado un Varoufakis en toda regla, jajajajajajajaja.
Les jode, luego se larga y ya el problema que se lo coma el gilipollas que llegue.