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Noel Gallagher Says Nigel Farage Is 'Incapable Of Running A Corner Shop Let Alone A Country'

Noel Gallagher Adds Farage To The List Of Politicians He's Hit With Amazing Insults
Sara C Nelson
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He’s known for pulling absolutely no punches – not even with his brother Liam – and now Noel Gallagher has given a cutting critique on the candidates in the general election. Specifically the leader of the Ukip, Nigel Farage.

Speaking to The Quietus, Gallagher said: “He doesn’t look like he could be mentally capable of running a corner shop, far less a fucking country.”

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Don't count on his vote

Farage has yet to respond to Gallagher, though he has previously engaged in public feuds, most notably when comedian Frankie Boyle called him a “c***” in October. A spokesman for Ukip declined to comment on Gallagher’s remarks.

Gallagher, whose second album with The High Flying Birds is released next month, has many other political opinions to impart...

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Tony Blair (01 of11)
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“I really believed in Tony Blair, for right or for wrong, and until Al Qaeda flew those planes into those towers. Everyone seems to forget that before that they were fucking alright.” [In a 2013 interview with New Statesman, Gallagher said he admired Blair “because he played guitar and smoked a bit of weed”.] (credit:Rebecca Naden/PA Archive)
David Cameron (02 of11)
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“… the Conservatives are just… I mean, what the fuck? David Cameron, he’s trying to be your mate. ‘Oh I really like the Jam.’” (credit:Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Ed Miliband(03 of11)
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“Utterly uninspiring and dull.” (credit:Dan Kitwood via Getty Images)
Margaret Thatcher (04 of11)
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“Thatcher was just like, ‘I’m fucking you in the arse, fuck what you say”. You can kind of respect that." (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Russell Brand (05 of11)
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“Bless him, his heart’s in the right place, and I thought it was outrageous that The Sun had him on the front page with "hypocrite". For News International to call anybody a hypocrite might be the most ironic thing in the modern world. He's good.” (credit:David M. Benett via Getty Images)
Boris Johnson (06 of11)
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“You know, the next Prime Minister after this one will be Boris Johnson…” [In 2013 Gallagher complained about seeing Johnson at a GQ Awards ceremony. He said: "Boris-f***ing-Johnson got an award for 'Politician of the Year'. I was speechless an award like that even exists, and he was boasting – in a Nineties rock-star full-of-cheng style – at how brilliant he must be due to the fact that he’d won the same award three times.”] (credit:Andrew Burton via Getty Images)
George Osborne(07 of11)
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“I have no doubt that George Osborne would’ve practised his weeping the night before Thatcher’s funeral. He might be the most slappable man in England, the kind of man that would watch Coronation Street or EastEnders to get a perspective on the working class.” (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Ed Balls (08 of11)
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“Ed Balls can frankly lick mine on his way to and from obscurity”. [Side note: In January Russell Brand described him as a “snidey c**t”] (credit:Anthony Devlin/PA Wire)
Dennis Skinner(09 of11)
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“Because he absolutely takes no shit off the toffs.” (credit:PA/PA Archive)
Winston Churchill(10 of11)
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“For his name alone.” (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Neil Kinnock (11 of11)
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“No grey areas.” (credit:Fred Duval via Getty Images)
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