Over the weekend, Nigel Farage was involved in a rescue operation in the English Channel. Having headed out for a Sunday morning of sea fishing, Farage spotted two men adrift in an inflatable kayak about five miles off the Kent coast. The ex-kipper turned skipper called the coast guard before trying to pull the pair onto his boat.
‘One of them was clearly in a very bad way,’ Farage told Mr S, ‘We had to get this bloke on board, there’s no way he could have survived in the sea. We did our best but we could not lift him over the gunwales.’
When Border Force did arrive, it seems they and Farage had a standoff. A Home Office official told Mr S that Border Force were unable to safely pull up alongside the kayak given the poor weather conditions and instead instructed Farage to get the pair onto his boat.
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