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Caption: Farage in Margate Beers
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Caption: For the first time since #ge2015 campaign began earlier this week Nigel Farage was out meeting & greeting at a public event.
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Caption: Those comments... He won some support for his views on foreigners with HIV using NHS hospitals when he appeared at a beer festival at Margate winter gardens.
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Caption: One person who spoke to him told me that he liked UKIP because the leader said the things that other politicians wouldn't say.
As he toured tables at the event and shared in the booze there were numerous requests for selfies.
There were some who strongly disagree with his comments about HIV sufferers who come here from abroad. One man told me that he thought Nigel Farage 'did racism' well
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Caption: Mr Farage also delivered what must be the understatement of his campaign so far when he told one beer drinker that it was 'quite important' to UKIP's electoral fortunes that he was elected to Parliament on 7th May.
Much of the focus is on ensuring the leader wins in Thanet south, at his 6th and almost certainly final attempt to become an MP.
He has said he will resign if he isn't elected. An event that would leave UKIP without its strongest asset.
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Caption: There was also evidence earlier in the day of the dual attack UKIP is mounting in this election. I saw him knock on doors in the cliftonville area of Margate and greet four people - all of them Labour voters. Or atleast Labour up until now.
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Caption: Of the four, three said they were supporting him. They were all pensioners who told me they wanted 'a change'.
The fourth asked the most questions but was the least convinced. The younger dad of three told me he liked 'Farage' yet he wasn't going to vote for him. His quandary was that he saw little in Ed Miliband which made him think the Labour leader would make a strong prime minister.
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Caption: She likes his policies and his pints
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Caption: With his UKIP funded security team he left, the first week of the campaign almost done.