I’ve seen all these diary pieces and gossip columns say that I’m a chain smoker,” he said.
“Others have written that my drink intake verges on alcoholism
Westminster interview 27th March 2025
In an interview with the Times (August 2nd 2025) Farage, 61, dismissed rumours about his health and noted that he had recently had a ‘one bottle lunch’ with someone of note (unnamed). That is a bottle of fine wine not beer btw. The statement is revealing in that it suggests, occasional reports confirming, that a typical Farage lunch which he invariably describes as ‘proper’ involves rather more than one bottle.
I’m hardly a temperance fan but I rarely drink at lunch (at least during the week) otherwise nothing gets done in the afternoon…Someone who does is not perhaps Prime Minister material in the 2020s
*Lunchtime O’Booze is a Private Eye phrase from the days of historic Fleet St (as was) and City of London lunches. As someone who worked in the City in the 1980s I of course have no memory of such things.
of course he’s an alcoholic. He’s had a lifetime of heavy drinking.
why is it funny if he’s an alcoholic? Try living with one and see if it’s du.