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
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.
Cameron has abandoned a large policy area, he's vacated ground on tax and immigration.
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.
I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.
The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.
I'm not for sale, neither is UKIP.
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.