article_snippet.sent: Nigel Farage was at the centre of fresh controversy last night after National Front members turned up to campaign for Nigel Farage in the South Thanet constituency.
article_snippet.sent: The row started after a group of far-Right supporters calling themselves the East Kent English Patriots supported Nigel Farage at an event in Broadstairs on Friday evening.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, Mr Farage’s Labour opponent in South Thanet, Will Scobie, claimed a group of Mr Farage’s Labour campaigners had been attacked by National Front members chanting for Ukip in Broadstairs late on Friday.
article_snippet.sent: When Nigel Farage realised that Mr Field and Nigel Farage supporters had been seen by this newspaper on Friday evening, Nigel Farage moved quickly to disown Mr Field and his supporters, saying: ‘Members of an extremist group today arrived at a Ukip public meeting at the same time as a Mail on Sunday camera arrives.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Farage’s comments triggered a war of words with the patriots group, which immediately posted a message saying: ‘
article_snippet.sent: We went to Ukip meeting with members of Kent NF and after Ukip meeting Nigel Farage went on Twitter saying Twitter have far right extremists here...