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Voices: Nigel Farage’s failure to win ‘I’m A Celeb’ has sealed his political fate

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Not that it’s at all scientific, but if what the Farage-istes were claiming on social media were true, Nigel Farage is so popular and likeable that he’d be celebrating being “King of the Jungle” by now.

He’d also be in prime position for some sort of storming political comeback. Faragemania would have overtaken gloomy Britain and, as the old extremist was being given a rapturous welcome back at Heathrow, the rest of us would be getting the bunting and the trestle tables out ready for the street parties to celebrate the return of the udder-eating hero. His final assault on power was to be supposedly at hand.

Well, Farage came third. He finished behind and doing something I’d never heard of. He beat the French waiter guy, but that was about the limit of his triumph. A miserable showing, in truth, of a .

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