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About 5 or 6 years ago he got on the same bus as me. He boarded at Bromley and got off at Biggin Hill, near to where he lived. He went upstairs and was sitting downstairs.
Two things really surprised me, firstly I don't know what happened when he went upstairs but when he boarded the bus he didn't seem to draw any attention, when I nudged my friend and said "look, Nigel Farage "she replied "who?" Admittedly he wasn't quite as high profile as he is today but the lack of reaction from other people quite surprised me, he was still a highly recognisable person.
The other thing that stunned me was the sheer nerve of Farage to stroll onto a bus unaccompanied, complete a reasonably long bus journey, and then casually stroll off. He was wearing some poncey posh striped blazer so it wasn't exactly a stealth exercise, he was wearing the sort of clothes that loud people who want to be the centre of attention wear.
What made me feel extremely uncomfortable was the grudging respect I felt I had to repress as the result of seeing Nigel Farage take a bus home instead of a taxi, which he could obviously easily afford.
It was almost a case of "come and have a go if you think you're hard enough", not what I expected from Nigel Farage.
It was similar to the feeling I felt when I learnt of the compassion shown by Margaret Thatcher towards Eric Heffer when he was dying of cancer, it challenged everything I believed about the person. Well not really everything, I still thought he was a ****.