Club promoters in Edinburgh have courted controversy after paying for former right-wing politician Nigel Farage to advertise their change of venue as being “as good an idea as Brexit”.
The organisers of ‘Broke Fridays’ have switched from hosting events at Atik to the Liquid Rooms starting from this week and secured the ex-UKIP leader's endorsement on personalised greeting website Cameo.
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A video, posted to the club night’s official TikTok channel, shows Farage wishing revellers ‘all the very best’ ahead of their debut at the Victoria Street venue.
“Well hello to my good friend Atik,” the former UKIP leader starts.
“It is Nigel Farage here. I want to wish you good luck with retiring from Friday nights and I can assure you that your new Friday night plans will be as good an idea as Brexit - if not even better.
“Here’s wishing you all the very best. Nigel, over and out.”
Farage, who was famously whisked away from protesters branding him a “bawbag” by police during a visit to the capital in 2013, charges up to £1,000 for an exclusive message on the app.
The 57-year-old now serves as the president of Reform UK - spawned from the Brexit Party - and is a presenter on GB News.
However, the former Brexit figurehead has previously been duped on multiple occasions by pranksters requesting shoutouts to the likes of ‘Hugh Janus’ and the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
He concluded one message with the phrase ‘Up the Ra’ and another with ‘tiocfaidh ar la’ - a phrase used by the group to mean ‘our day will come’.
Videos have also been shared of Farage speaking in nonsensical catchphrases used by alt-right online groups and advertising the details of drug dealers.
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His chaotic trip to Edinburgh ended with the then-UKIP chief sitting in the back of a riot van after four attempts to escape a group of around 50 protesters.
He initially sought refuge in the Canon’s Gait pub before being shown the door by the landlord after activists branded him a “racist” and a “homophobe”.
Farage was then rejected by a taxi after abandoning his press conference and ejected from a second when the group blocked his path.
Officers were then forced to corral him back into the bar until a vehicle could arrive and transport him away from the scene at a fourth attempt.
