(1) But police described him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when arrested – he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
(2) This time, however, the party has been made to look so absurd that even Farage has said he needs to professionalise his fledgling force and drive out the "Walter Mitty" characters damaging their reputation.
(3) It comes as Farage tries to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types after a stream of controversies.
(4) Mitty may be in his own little world, but he is not so disconnected from reality as to suggest a series of floods might be God's punishment for a change in the law allowing same-sex marriage.
(5) The letter's publication comes the day after Farage announced that he wanted to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types and create a "disciplined election machine".
(6) Not to the rogue Ukip officials and activists Farage was referring to, who have embarrassed the party with their off-message opinions – but to Walter Mitty.
(7) Nigel Farage says he wants to rid Ukip of its Walter Mitty figures .
(8) You would not have caught Mitty mocking a disabled student, asking him whether he was Richard III, as the MEP and Ukip member Godfrey Bloom did at the Oxford Union last week.
(9) James Bond, Star Trek , Batman , Star Wars , Fast and Furious , Thor and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty have all made use of Iceland’s stunning scenery, and the 20% expenses refund from the state.
(10) Farage's effort to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types comes after a stream of controversies, including the party's suspension of a councillor for blaming flooding on gay marriage and the ejection of MEP Godfrey Bloom following comments about women and sending foreign aid to "bongo-bongo land".
(11) O'Hagan portrays Assange as a Walter Mitty-like fantasist whose absorption with grand and unrealisable schemes prevents him from ever achieving anything practical.
(12) A Walter Mitty character with a bootlegging past in the US, Gavin Welby became the main figure in his son's life, especially after his divorce in 1959, when the boy was three.
(13) Ukip is yet to comment on Batten's remarks, which come after an effort by Farage to rid the party of "Walter Mitty" types .
(14) It is also unlikely that Fox would have allowed "a Walter Mitty figure" to sit alongside him when he sat down for a social dinner with commander designate for Nato in Afghanistan at a Steakhouse in Tampa Florida.David Cameron said at prime minister's questions that he was waiting for the O'Donnell inquiry before deciding whether to sack Fox.
(15) So Farage is letting himself off too lightly when he announces that Ukip will now get a tighter grip on its candidate selection to keep out the Mittys.
(16) Among them were The Business Background of MPs (seven editions, 1959-80), Enoch Powell, Tory Tribune (1970), Lord On the Board (1972) and Sir Harold Wilson: Yorkshire Walter Mitty (1977).
(17) One friend said he was “eccentric to the extreme” and “bit of a Walter Mitty”, obsessed by palm-reading and known to sleep in his mum’s dressing gown and a fez.
(18) Nigel Farage's admission that Ukip has more than its fair share of Walter Mittys might look like the very latest in candour from the man who styles himself as a straight-talker, but it is in fact an insult.
(19) Walter Mitty's inner Walter Mitty is never rattled, however tight the corner; his peers marvel at his dauntless courage and are left breathless by the almost superhuman range of talents that real life never allows him to demonstrate.
(20) Police sources describe him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when he was arrested ‑ he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.