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UKIP leader Nigel Farage went to Scotland on Thursday in an attempt to make headway among the Scots.
In Edinburgh's Royal Mile, where he was hailing journalists, the United Kingdom Independence Party leader was surrounded by several hundred people and had to beat a retreat escorted by the Scottish Police.
His attempts to make a retreat in two different directions in as many taxis had already been aborted by the crowd, and after he was expelled from a pub, the Police had to forcefully enter the same pub with Nigel Farage in order to barricade him inside for his own safety.
He was later driven from The Mile in a Police van.
As I mentioned a few weeks back on the Forum, The United Kingdom Independence Party leader had made a high-horse speech in Scotland in which he appeared as an Englander and not as the leader of a United Kingdom party campaigning for the Union.
While the motives of the protesters who drove him out of The Mile were clearly questionable, what is remarkable is the fact that no Scottish crowd had gathered to greet Nigel Farage and cheer him on, or to listen to him, apart from the journalists with whom he had made arrangements.
His previous Englander-only attitude towards the Scots did him no favours, when he made his "tally-ho" speech about Scottish independence and how England would not hand over a bag of money to Scotland if the Scots voted for independence.
Quite clearly this "all about money" attitude had not gone down well with the Scots, who would have expected a leader of a party claiming to represent the United Kingdom to behave impartially towards all constituent countries of the Union and to behave like a British leader, advocating unity with a sense of pathos and not bickering about money.
The Scots may have concluded that Scotland is low in the esteem of Nigel Farage and that he is by admission an Englander only.
The result was that, this time round, no crowd came out to greet him, except to chase him off.