NIGEL FARAGE GETS A THUMBS DOWN FROM JESUS

Farage didn’t look too impressed with his latest follower (Picture: Rex)

First he was being compared to Jesus and now Nigel Farage is being followed by him.

The UKIP leader was pictured walking through London and talking on his mobile phone while a man dressed as the son of God (wearing a pair of Nike trainers and holding a smartphone) walked behind him.

Farage didn’t look too impressed with what was going on as he tried to ignore Jesus (aka Kevin Lee Light).

But then the Messiah wasn’t too keen on Farage either putting his thumb down behind his back.

Farage didn’t look too impressed with his latest follower (Picture: Rex)

Last week a senior Ukip figure who compared Farage to Jesus was suspended as chairman of the Lambeth and North Croydon branch of the party.

Winston McKenzie will remain the party’s general election candidate in Croydon North.

He is the party’s Commonwealth spokesman but has been stripped of the local role while an investigation is carried out, a spokesman said.

Ukip declined to say what the investigation will look into but the suspension comes after a letter of no confidence in Mr McKenzie was backed by a number of members, according to the Croydon Advertiser.

Mr McKenzie has regularly hit the headlines for his outspoken views, including describing placing children for adoption with same-sex couples as ‘unhealthy’ and ‘tantamount to child abuse’.

During a Ukip carnival held in Croydon earlier this year that quickly descended into chaos, he described the area as ‘unsafe and a dump’.

Farage did his best to ignore Jesus (Picture: Rex)

Over the years, he has been a member of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the now defunct Veritas party as well founding his own group, the Unity Party.

A Ukip spokesman said: ‘The Lambeth and North Croydon branch of Ukip has been suspended, along with its officers, pending the outcome of an internal inquiry into its activities.