I’m writing a piece for Culture Matters about beer and the election. Its focus is on politics not beer although you can find plenty about beer on the blog.
Farage launched his election campaign for Clacton on Tuesday. Attention was focused on his interface with a banana milkshake. That happened as he was leaving the Moon and Starfish the local Wetherspoons.
Most things about Farage are fake. He is an ex=public school boy and stockbroker not a man of the people. Likewise while he is sometimes pictured drinking a pint of beer (see above) he is in fact a drinker of fine wines. Its an image thing as much as Harold Wilson smoked a pipe in public for strategic reasons but enjoyed cigars in private.
The really interesting thing about the picture is the row of photographers taking Farage’s picture. They are on the serving side of the bar. Try doing that in your local… The conclusion that can be drawn is that Wetherspoons were happy enough to host the Farage launch. Farage has used Spoons for his GBNews efforts in the past and Tim Martin is a well known Brexiteer. Well known in fact to be Sir Tim these days
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