Farage says immigration made him late for event

Nigel Farage is stuck on repeat. Every time he’s confronted with a problem, he blames ‘immigrants’. The latest issue he’s saying is ‘immigrants’ fault? Traffic.

Farage missed a drinks reception with UKIP activists, held as part of the party’s first ever Welsh Conference. The reception took place in Port Talbot and the reason he was late, he said, was immigrants. He blamed the the UK’s ‘open door immigration’ policy for traffic on the M4 – as he was travelling from London to south Wales – saying that it ‘is not as navigable as it used to be’.

He told BBC Sunday Politics Wales: ‘It took me six hours and 15 minutes in the car to get here. It should have taken three-and-half to four.

‘That has nothing to do with professionalism. What is does have to do with is a country in which the population is going through the roof, chiefly because of open door immigration and the fact the M4 is not as navigable as it used to be.

‘In all these years in Ukip that’s probably about the third event out of a thousand that I haven’t made in time.’

Shadow Secretary for Wales Owen Smith hit back at Farage, saying:

‘Remarks like these are what makes Farage so dangerous. It is clearly absurd to suggest heavy traffic on the M4 is caused by immigration, but through the laughter at his silly comments you can hear Ukip’s dog-whistle politics of division.’