It is true that some people work for the whole of their lives in one role or for one employer, while others like myself do not. However as someone whose longest role in my own working life was 13 years I feel it is possible to have several careers in one working life. Nigel Farage may not consider himself to be a career politician, he has after all spent 17 years of his life working in the City of London before he became my MEP, however he has been a member of two political parties with only a short break ever since he left school (first the Tories and then UKIP from 1993) as well as being my MEP for 18 years (soon to be 19 years). He was leader of his party for a total of 10 years. If this is not a career it is hard to see what else anyone would call it. The truth is that after 18 years as my MEP I have never had a single piece of information about what he has done through my door, he has ignored every tweet and facebook message I have ever sent to him, and his attendance in the European Parliament has been very limited. I would certainly not suggest he has been a good MEP, but few people apart from Nigel would argue that he has not achieved a career.