Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:49 pm on 15 November 2016.
The only thing that Nigel Farage has run is away. He’s never run anything. He is an individual who has no experience in terms of running anything or in terms of diplomacy. The idea of Nigel Farage being a diplomat is the equivalent of giving a child a chainsaw it would seem to me. Yes, I did see the photographs of Nigel Farage, but without his poppy, on Remembrance Day—a point I made yesterday—even though Arron Banks, the money man, did have a poppy on. It’s one thing for UKIP to say how important it is to remember—and they’re correct in that sense. It’s one thing for Nigel Farage to say that he wants to be at the Cenotaph and that is a point that he is able to make. But, he was not at a remembrance parade yesterday, he was not even wearing a poppy. If Mark Reckless had done that, he’d have been criticised. If Neil Hamilton had done that, he’d have been criticised. If any one of us in this Chamber had done that, then we would have been criticised, but the great Nigel is beyond criticism. Well, I’m afraid yesterday he was hoist by his own petard. Somebody who lacks the wit to be photographed on Remembrance Sunday at an event, grinning, without a poppy, does not deserve to be given any kind of diplomatic role.