Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farageis a British politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Partyfrom September 2006 to November 2009, and again from November 2010 to July 2016. Since 1999 he has been a Member of the European Parliament for South East England. He co-chairs the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracygroup. He has been noted for his sometimes controversial speeches in the European Parliament and has strongly criticised the euro currency...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 April 1964
CityDowne, England
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
Its hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.
I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.
Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.
And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics.
I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.
No deals with the Tories; it's war.
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.