Damien

He'll just move the goalposts. Say he was talking about how increased immigration causes strain on infrastructure which is a far more solid position for him to argue. It's certainly better than claiming he was late on a specific day due to a delay on a specific route caused by immigration. Then he will claim the critics of this comment are being politically correct and that it's not racist to discuss immigration - leaving out the part of what the actual criticism is about.

Farage is an expect at this though. Making vague comments that are intentionally designed to court attention and controversy but are not themselves objectionable. Comments which can be perceived as common sense in one light or inflammatory in another. He baits people into criticising him and then slightly expands the comment to make them seem unreasonable and slam them for dismissing valid concerns.

Look at the story where he said children from migrants should be included in figures about the impact upon migration. It's quite reasonable in some respects but it's also unworkable in practise, it implies people with Foreign born parents are somewhat migrants and it's not how anyone measures migration. It also leaves out the question of people with only one parent who is British. Still the people minded to favour UKIP see the common sense, those minded to be critical of them seen the xenophobia. Brilliant baiting.

This is the same, no doubt about it. Sometime this afternoon he'll comment on it and say he was discussing the strain of mass migration on infrastructure and that those criticising him are only doing so because they would rather not talk about it. It's also a warm up for his performance on Question Time this week. It ensures migration is mentioned.