Nigel Farage Resigns As Ukip Leader, Twitter Chimes In

"Farage stepping down to spend more time with his family, who are gutted to hear the news."
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Brexit campaigner and MEP Nigel Farage stood down as the leader of Ukip on Monday morning, joining Boris Johnson in legging it immediately after bringing dramatic change to the country.

As you'd expect, the lovely people of Twitter jumped at the chance to have a final pop at the anti-EU politician.

A lot of people had déjà vu from the last time he resigned

Someone should tell @Nigel_Farage we have something called annual leave. You don't need to resign every summer.

— Benjamin Butterworth (@benjaminbutter) July 4, 2016

Farage is now hiding behind a pillar counting to a thousand before he comes out and says he’d like to be leader again.

— Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) July 4, 2016

Farage quits as UKIP leader, the election for a new leader will take place tomorrow when Nigel Farage takes on Nigel Farage.

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) July 4, 2016

May I be the first to congratulate Nigel Farage on his reinstatement as UKIP leader 48 hours from now.

— Stuart Heritage (@stuheritage) July 4, 2016

Some were speculating on the real reason behind his departure

Farage retires to spend more time with his ego.

— Mic is griping... ✍ (@brokenbottleboy) July 4, 2016

What's the betting Farage has landed a job at a big European bank.

— Ian Hyland (@HylandIan) July 4, 2016

Others just wanted to have a crack at him for jumping ship after the country voted to leave the EU

Farage today: pic.twitter.com/7vOM4qiV7y

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) July 4, 2016

Let someone else clean up the mess, eh? #Farage #Johnson pic.twitter.com/UdUvlzdklZ

— René Denfeld (@Renestance) July 4, 2016

'Farage resignation' - noun; an explosive bowel movement in someone else's house followed by fleeing the scene#Farage

— Dean Burnett (@garwboy) July 4, 2016

Farage is the housemate at uni who encouraged everyone to throw a party but then left the next morning so they didn't have to tidy up.

— Adam Hess (@adamhess1) July 4, 2016

And a lot of people were just taking the piss out of his speech

Farage stepping down to spend more time with his family, who are gutted to hear the news.

— Moose Allain (@MooseAllain) July 4, 2016

"I want my life back", says Farage as he steps into a time machine bound for the 1970s.

— Dai Lama (@WelshDalaiLama) July 4, 2016

Farage says 'finally the real me can come out' seconds before shedding his human skin and becoming a gigantic racism lizard.

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) July 4, 2016

Farage says he will finally be able to reveal his real self, I am expecting feather boas and Shirley Bassey numbers.

— Robin Ince (@robinince) July 4, 2016

But what about the future?

Maybe Mark could run to be Ukip leader?
After all this month we've seen a lot of...

...Reckless moves 😎

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) July 4, 2016

I'd love it if due to lack of suitable applicants here, UKIP is forced to hire an EU migrant worker to fill the vacant leader position.

— James Martin (@Pundamentalism) July 4, 2016

*Nigel Farage in turtleneck on Newsnight*
"The thing is, right, I was playing a character. For me to be saying those things, it was a joke"

— Kit Lovelace (@kitlovelace) July 4, 2016

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