NIGEL Farage was in a jovial mood during a visit to Worcester this week – with his trip to the Faithful City coinciding with his 49th birthday.

The slick UKIP leader breezed into the Guildhall without a care in the world before knocking back questions with ease before a largely sympathetic audience.

In fact, the only area where it wasn’t plain sailing for the right-winger was on the social networking sites – where one county politician continues to make a name for herself.

Many councillors like to use Twitter to reach out to residents, ask for opinions or simply make new friends and contacts.

But when Liberal councillor Fran Oborski isn’t ranting at County Hall, she’s ranting to her followers tweet by tweet, and it isn’t always pretty viewing.

Within minutes of Mr Farage’s Q&A in Worcester going viral, she claimed he was among other things “a fantasist” who leads a “silly party”.

Just to underline her point, if you can bear the exclamation marks, another tweet from her said: “Farage! Yuk! No thanks!”

One has to doubt whether it will be anything other than water off a duck’s back for Mr Farage amid his party’s surge in the opinion polls.

But then Coun Oborski has got form for using her twitter feed to express herself in rather alarming ways.

In the last five days alone, she has labelled the Daily Mail a “vile sickening muck stirring rag”, called someone a “coward” for not standing for election, and told a Labour activist to “grow up” during a debate over the bedroom tax.

This is one way to attract new followers, all right.

TALKING about UKIP, the party had activists waiting at the doors for people to leave the Guildhall on Wednesday, asking them, “Are you a party member”, and if the answer was “no”, “Do you want to sign up?”

It was like watching used car sellers trying to entice punters into forking out for clapped out, rusty 1960s bangers.

British ones, of course.

RUMOURS have been circulating that Councillor Simon Geraghty, Worcester City Council leader, is moving to Droitwich to live.

His political foes have been chattering, with some suggesting it’s because he wants to stand for Mid Worcestershire in 2015 when Peter Luff retires as an MP.

His response? We don’t print swear words, but “it’s complete rubbish” is a useful substitute.