The best-known image is Farage nursing a warm pint of beer in a battered Barbour, like a parochial lord mingling with his estate tenants.
Mother Love Belfast Just as rock music is best appreciated in a dark, seedy club with a warm pint in one hand, surely it follows that a club playing something more melodic and soulful is better enjoyed in a pleasant ambience with a cocktail list?
I'm sure it's a great professional bonus to be able to come across like everybody's best mate, but it must be a pain when you're in Tesco, or indeed being talked at over a warm pint of Lambrusco when you're itching to have a frug.
So if you can handle a soupy, warm pint of rocky road, stick your bowl in the microwave for a couple of seconds before devouring it.
Now think about David Cameron licking his lips, or Nick Clegg's face folding sadly while he wears his "This Is What A Feminist Looks Like" T-shirt, or Ed Miliband honking at a homeless woman, or Nigel Farage holding up a warm pint of ale, or one of the Green ones, doing something green.
For me, it's probably either supping on a flat, warm pint of Ye Olde Froggefucker in the Kentish Drovers, eating a punnet of undercooked chips outside the library, or upgrading my phone contract at the fantastic and spacious branch of EE on Rye Lane. .
"Well," he says, "it wasn't barbershop love, in a let's go to the dance, boys on one side, girls on the other and 'I'll buy you a couple of warm pints of Stella.' I was quite shy but there was a bit of a secret life going on.
They are walking around me in a powerful tribal circle now, holding up warm pints of Stones Bitter.
Start at Sankeys, a venue located inside an old soap factory that's had more opening and closing parties than Mark E Smith's had warm pints.
