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
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics.
But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.
Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.
We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.
Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
The European Union's finished. It doesn't work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit.
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.