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It didn’t take much pressing to get Nigel Farage to generate a bonkers headline – anything less would have left me totally baffled.

But the first time I met the Ukip leader this week even I was stumped when he seemed to put the A55’s problems into the same box as “a little diversion in West Sussex”.

Even with my bad eyesight I can see a difference between some traffic lights and cones on an English country lane and miles of traffic jams crippling an entire region, and that’s looking from Cardiff.

After all Tim Peake is probably able to see one of the tailbacks from space.

So all I can conclude is that a) Mr Farage has never been on the A55, or b) if he has maybe he didn’t know that was where he was – insert a dig about Welsh road signs, sorry Nigel!

Read: What YOU have to say about the A55

As he stood on the steps of the Senedd the Ukip leader dismissed my question over what his party would do about the problematic A55 if they get seats in the Senedd in May.

Mr Farage said: “Well ask them [Assembly candidates] not me, I’m not standing for the Welsh Assembly.”

I wasn’t having that one bit and did remind him that Ukip was after all his party, which led to the bizarre reply about the little diversion I spoke of earlier.

He said: “Well, you know, and no doubt there will be some little diversion in West Sussex as well that’s being proposed down there.

“I can’t speak on every road improvement all over the country can I, but you can ask our candidates that are standing in those elections.”

Read: Not all candidates need to speak Welsh says Ukip heavyweight

Candidates not announced yet

(Image: Rachel Flint)

Where this falls down is we don’t yet know who Ukip’s mysterious candidates are for the elections, Ukip have apparently not yet announced them.

It’s all very secretive and exciting, very X Factor fake heart beat dramatic, but means actually I can’t ask them – and that’s why I was asking Mr Farage who I fear had no clue who I was.

It is looking like Ukip could get two seats in the North, thanks to the regional list seat system, which I will explain at some point but right now I would rather hit myself over the head with a saucepan.

You have to remember over 200,000 voters in Wales supported them back at the General Election in May.

They claim they will break the “cosy consensus” between parties in Cardiff Bay a statement which massively undersells what the shockwave they could send through the Senedd.

A Senedd with Ukip in would be far different to how it looks today, that’s if the, at times pantomime battle, between Farage and First Minister Carwyn Jones is anything to go by anyway.

But an invasion by the stripey tie wearing party could see the loss of seasoned AMs including North Wales’ Lib Dem Aled Roberts from the chamber.

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With that bumpy ride ahead I will be following Mr Farage’s advice and “completely ignoring” new alcohol guidance.