It's just growing pains. Farage appeared content to be leader of a one-issue protest party. The party has now gained huge potential support and so could have real power and influence. Accordingly, he has to stamp on the focii of these sensational and smear stories which the Tories and press are constantly searching for.

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Whoever you vote for you're going to get a coalition. At least in part as a consequence of the nastiness of the parties. And you'll get a coalition which includes a mixture of different types of nastiness.

...and when he isn't sneering and snarling himself he sends one of his pups out to peddle the predictable propaganda of "its not our fault they won't work in menial jobs, after all I did it once" ... [urlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/22/esther-mcvey-costa_n_4643034.html?1390392355&utm_hp_ref=uk[/url

We're currently hiring, from an agency obviously, the guys applying for the jobs have to walk past my office to get to their interviews, of the dozen or so that have been through so far, my untrained eye says not one of them was under 30, and most appeared to be pushing 40 and above. It's an unskilled job but the pay is about £11hr.

So the fact an Agency chose to send your company a bunch on candidates of a certain vintage proves what exactly?

I'm just wondering where the "youngsters" are. I'd expect out of a dozen or so candidates at least one or two would be from the younger end of the spectrum.

A further conversation today found when we were hiring for 2 lab jobs, one to be a basic dogsbody, only one under 20 applied then she never turned up for the interview.