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Farage Unleashed: "You Are Common Criminals"
"Years ago, Mrs Thatcher recognized the truth behind the European Project," UKIP's Nigel Farage reminds his European Parliament 'colleagues', "she saw that it was about taking away democracy from nation states and handing that power to largely unaccountable people." In one of his most wonderfully vitriolic remonstrations, the fiery Farage blasts Europe's leadership, "this European Union is the new communism." Slamming Olli Rehn and his Troika cohorts for "resorting to the level of common criminals and stealing people's money", Farage warns, rather chillingly, that, "it is power without limits. It is creating a tide of human misery and the sooner it is swept away the better." Simply put, he concludes, the European Parliament is living out a federal fantasy which is no longer sustainable.
Full Transcript:
Years ago, Mrs Thatcher recognised the truth behind the European Project. She saw that it was about taking away democracy from nation states and handing that power to largely unaccountable people.
Knowing as she did that the euro would not work she saw that this was a very dangerous design. Now we in UKIP take that same view and I tried over the years in this parliament to predict what the next moves would be as the euro disaster unfolded.
But not even me, in my most pessimistic of speeches would have imagined, Mr Rehn, that you and others in the Troika would resort to the level of common criminals and steal money from peoples' bank accounts in order to keep propped up this total failure that is the euro.
You even tried to take money away from the small investors in direct breach of the promise you made back in 2008.
Well the precedent has been set, and if we look at countries like Spain where business bankruptcies are up 45% year on year, we can see what your plan is to deal with the other bailouts as they come.
I must say, the message this sends out to investors is very loud and clear: Get your money out of the Eurozone before they come for you.
What you have done in Cyprus is you actually sounded the death knell of the euro. Nobody in the international community will have confidence in leaving their money there.
And how ironic to see the Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev compare your actions and say, ' I can only compare it to some of the decisions taken by the Soviet authorities.'
And then we have a new German proposal that says that actually what we ought to do is confiscate some of the value of peoples' properties in the southern Mediterranean eurozone states.
This European Union is the new communism. It is power without limits. It is creating a tide of human misery and the sooner it is swept away the better.
But what of this place, what of the parliament? This parliament has the ability to hold the Commission to account. I have put down a motion of censure debate on the table. I wonder whether any of you have the courage to recognise it and to support it. I very much doubt that.
And I am minded that there is a new Mrs Thatcher in Europe and he is called Frits Bolkenstein. And he has said of this parliament - remember he is a former Commissioner: 'It is not representative anymore for the Dutch or European citizen. The European Parliament is living out a federal fantasy which is no longer sustainable.'
How right he is.
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How can anyone with common sense and a heart not love Farage?
When is he going to call out the Rothschilds and their EU project by name? The people he is talking to are mearly paycheck players.
We need him alive a bit longer. Uttering names like those will get him Berezovsky'd faster than you can imagine, especially with the desperation being openly displayed as of late.
They are not COMMON criminals.
They are extraordinarily arrogant and stupid criminals.
Please Nigel. Give the Devils their due.
Good thing there's a Plan B....
If only Farage was just as outspoken when criticizing the politicians in his own country and the City of London (where his father made millions as a broker, paying for Nigel's education in one of the exclusive private colleges where the UK's elites and politicians meet their future cronies).
Strangelly, whe's only outspoken against foreigners and only in vague ad hominem attacks.
One might almost think that Nigel Farage's speciality is simply to hypocritically pander to the prejudices and unsupported sense of superiority that a certain segment of the British (and the American) public has against foreigners ...
Us,
and Them.
But after all,
were only ordinary men.
NOBODY, NOBODY, in the US Senate or House of Representatives has the balls, nor the integrity, to stand up and say these types of things in regards to printing, high taxes, defecit spending, etc., and etc.
how many political parties in your Houses? we have +150
Farage's UKIP has not one single seat yet in the Commons, btw
Spent borrowed money.
Now they blame savers.
Germany had experiences with hyperinflation so they naturally lean towards hawkish stance.
People like to learn things the hard way because they are stupid.
Nobody 'likes' to learn the hard way.
It's just that, for the stupid, it's the only way.
Fixed it.
#1, Daniel Hannan
#2, Nigel Farage
I see nothing else but rope!
I think for certain stupid people, they NEVER learn.
"People like to learn things the hard way because they are stupid."
Are you a person?
UKIP is the fasting growing political party in the UK. Would you bet the breakthrough wouldn't come in the next general election? People are slowly waking up and turning to UKIP as the only common sense party who actually look after the interests of the working man, instead of the interests of the global elite.
Try to pay attention if you are going to make such claims. Mr Paul, both Ron and Rand, have and do make such statements.
NOBODY, since Ron Paul retired...
Rand.
Rand is a hawk who sold out to the embodiment of nearly everything he claims to be against, Mitt Romney. He not merely endorsed him, but "happily". It took 30 years for Dr. Ron Paul to get noticed. Rand can spend another 30 years living up to his father before I trust him.
and Alan Grayson. What some of his videos at youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZcehlgwwB8
Neither does Farage - he has yet to raise a rokus about "printing, high taxes, defecit spending, etc." in his own country.
Farage's speciality is to go on vacations to Brussels, paid by the EU, and there raise a rokus about anything and everything of the policies of countries other than the UK.
It requires no balls to go to the EU, under the protection of all its treaties and with the implicit support of his country and complain all about those filthy foreigners. It's like going to visit the house of somebody who is an impecably polite host and criticize everything about it while ignoring the filthy mess that his own house is. (I've met people like that and they're scum)
I've been waiting for a long time to hear him complaining about British Pound inflation from the Bank of England's money printing or the excessive influence of te City of London in British politics or the collusion between the Press and the main political parties in the UK. So far, no show!
As much as I like Nigels scull splitting of the concrete mastodont, I am left with a hmmmm, when I read the sheet on Frits Bolkenstein, that Nigel pulls out as a beacon of light here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Bolkestein
Connected with Shell. Later with Bank Menatep and Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in an alleged scandal involving secret accounts in Clearstream - a Deutche Boerse clearinghouse of sorts. As commissioner he was involved with developing patent rules. The beforementioned tidbits are enough to caution my enthusiasm before cheering further for Nigels focus of praise. Additional fact seeking is warrated.
That's more or less my point here:
- Nigel Farage is a member of the status quo, not the EU status quo but the UK status quo.
He has no intention that the financial system is fixed, money printing stops, the markets become trully free, the law applies equally to all or sane economic management is back. What he wants is that HIS set of cronies get the bigger slice of the cake rather than the other set of cronies.
Cheering a for this guy just because he's a loudmouth is pretty shortsighted.
voters love to cheer. always looking for the next in line to support.
politicians love their voter's support.
voters will always overlook the details, or a politician's "mis-step" however obvious.
voting, and politicians - same game, played by people being played.
voting, it's the least you can do. . .
Well maybe, but he's the only loudmouth we have. Tell me which other high profile UK politicians is contrarian on topics like EU membership and unchecked immigration? Really, I'm all ears. Who you got?
Who should we be cheerleading for if not Farage? None of the fence-sitting, hand-wringing fucks in the Lab/Lib/Con establishment possess one iota of backbone or original thought between them.
Bolkestein won the 1998 Dutch elections for his party (VVD) in 1998 on an eurosceptic and populist platform and then promptly left for Brussels to fill a lucrative position as European Commissioner. He left his party in the hands of Hans Dijkstal, who diametrically opposed all of the positions which made his party the big winner at the elections.
It is one of the causes of the Fortuyn revolt in 2001/2002.
One man did, but he retired. A few others tried, and they were gerrymandered away as well.
Nigel is a whore for the CITY of LONDOn.......people just dont want to believe it......
That doesn't make him wrong about what he is saying regarding the eu taking private property from it's citizens. He can be a shill for the city, and be right about what a bunch of whores the eu are.
Also, British common law holds property rights as inviolate. When the uk starts direct confiscation (yes, not including artificial inflation before you blow a gasket) of. private wealth or property then I'll start to tell Farage to pipe down. Until then, he can let the eu bastards have it.
And he's the only politician in the entire UK speaking out against rampant unchecked immigration, so go fuck yourself
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan. Once and a while guys on C-Span, media never covers it so you don't see it.
lol, nice easy short names - lotsa paul in there, hmm.
err, one might also be excused for thinking that the man's skin of his teeth survival from a plane crash(a common element in the untimely demise of many a Merikan political dissenter!) might have caused Nigel to bite his tongue a bit before callin out the elites closer to where he calls home!
Hey, if you don't like the guy just open up n say so!
ps...I very much suspect that Mr F's 'speciality' as you put it, is pandering to that segment of British society which is somewhat put out about now feeling like 'foreigners' in the country of their birth...
+1 this is indeed part of his target group. the rest he meets as Fellow of the City of London Corporation. A short while ago he was granted the honour of meeting Murdoch himself for dinner, to the dismay of many invidious MPs
every politician has a role to play. . . in the grand scheming of things.
"(where his father made millions as a broker, paying for Nigel's education in one of the exclusive private colleges where the UK's elites and politicians meet their future cronies)."
You know, I really don't have a big problem with that. Doing what I do I've probably made "millions" (like maybe 2 of them!) if you add it all up over the years. So, no, that really doesn't bother me unless he did it by lying, cheating and stealing.
You would prefer only the homeless and destitute be allowed into politics? And since when do we hold people responsible for what their fathers did?
So you are only pure of heart if you come from a poor background eh?
Like OBAMA? Gag....
Nice strawman there. Nothing like a lovelly generalization and trying to put words on my mouth.
Feel free to point out where Nigel Farage has ever criticized money printing by the BoE, the City of London or the Financial Industry in the UK.
Until then, I have no reason to believe that he is a fair an honest man as willing to criticize those who employ his family and friends as he is foreigners.
Nigel Farage continues:
“Now everyone has decided, the Bank of England, the Fed, and the European Central Bank, who are utterly brilliant people that have led us to the mess we are in, they’ve all decided that the solution is quantitative easing. The solution is to go on printing and creating false money in an attempt to buy our way out of the (ongoing) crisis.
My take on that, my historical perspective is that all we are really doing is actually compounding the problem....
http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2012/8/10_Ni...
now STFU
A) Well played to his father. Why hate him just because the man made some money?
B) WTF does it matter which college he went to? Clearly he is not brainwashed or working with the 'UK's elites and politians'
At least this man is out there making a stand against the status quo. WTF are you doing for Europe or the UK that allows you to be so high and mighty?
The man is part of the status quo in the UK. His father made many millions working for financial services and he himself went to the exclusive kind of college attended by the heads of the main UK parties and by other members of the elites. The only way in which he could be more part of the status quo in the UK than that would be if he was a member of the Royal Family.
He has yet to critcize the status quo or the elites in his own country: all he ever criticizes is foreigners, never the status quo in his own country.
The oldest ploy in the book that the status quo uses when trying to maintain their priviledges is to convince the riff-raff that the fault is all of the foreigners.
Lo-and-behold the guy who just happens to have a father who made a lot of money in financial services and who attended the same schools as other members of the elites ALWAYS blames the foreigners for all the problems of the UK.
Sorry but i don't buy it. You dont like that his father made some money and that he went to a fancy school. That is hardly his fault and frankly he should be congratulated for having a mind of his own. Considering the few leaders with such a positiive stance, maybe we should be more supportive, until the point they turn out to be just like the rest....which he has yet to do as far as I can see.
Not everyone who works in finance is the devil.
My point is that Nigel Farage has a potential conflict of interest because of his family's tradition and that he had the kind of upbringing (private boys college) that in the UK is tightly associated with members of the elite.
I'm also pointing out that he criticizes the EU and its elites for economic mismanagement and yet does not criticize the UK's institutions and it's elites for similar economic mismanagement.
Last but not least, blaming the EU for everything while remaining mute about the mismanagement of its own government and elites is a common ploy in the UK by politicians from the mainstream parties and by certain newspapers who have deep and tight connections with mainstream parties.
Given all this, I find Nigel's motivations suspicious.
So far in this thread I've heard a lot of fanboyism and hero worship and yet not a single poster has pointed me out an instance of Nigel Farage criticizing the UK's institutions for things like money printing.
PS: I actually worked in Investment Banking in the City of London, so your ad hominem attack on me for seemingly implying that "everyone who works in finance is the devil" was exceptionally idiotic.
Wundertroll.
I find him a sympathetic character, and I like listening to him. But I too wonder about his motives. I doubt he is so outspoken because his heart bleeds for the people of Europe. He's certainly not risking anything politically at home by speaking out against the euro dream/nightmare. I do like that he's around and that he makes the EC look like fools.
Farage has and does speak out against QE, even against that of the BoE. A simple google search will bring up many instances.
Indeed, much like the Russians he quoted, sometimes it "takes one to know one".
Look at the bright side, he probably pissed the off calling them "common".
They are only criminals if someone holds them accountable. Until then they can do as they wish.
I do not see any form of law enforcement doing so. They are in on the take.
It will be up to the people. However, the breaking point is very high. People will put up with a lot until a crack in the dam. At that point I would guess it escalates into a civil war - people vs govt. Once that happens there is no turning back.
No. they are common criminals with the most dangerous power of all...the power to legislate.
it goes deeper than the rothchilds.... much.... and much older....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallavicini_family
But, but, but...
They are not jewish.
It's The Global Criminal Cabal (Bankster/Intelligence) Crime Syndicate
Can you tell us more, LandofBlind?
Seems like all his speeches fall on deaf ears, but they do sound good. Look at all the chumps in the room, no one cares, they just collect their cut and do their masters bidding.
Conscience of a Continent still though. Is there something being protected by throwing millions out into the Street? If so I fail to see it.
There's no conscience involved, they will continue as long as it benefits them.
against all common geographic conventions England is not part of this continent (while Ireland and Scotland are honorary members)
so, corrected: the Conscience of England (without The City)/s
Disagree, because those MEP's aren't his audience. Those of us here in the real world are.
not his Southern English constituency? Particularly when it's about... Belgium?
Lst us face tne facts.
Guess what? Got a bunch "know nothing but know it all idiots" Then you get the drones,
The US of A is fucked. And the averaage guy does not know it WHY? Because they are lied to.
Do I hate the Us govt't. YES,
Do I think that American citizens are stupid beyond any beleif???? YES> IDIOTS
Saw him live at Simon Black's offshore workshop 2 weeks ago. Very charismatic. Even those in the audience who did not know him before, were applauding him enthusiastically. Still waiting for his forecast for the "The next EU country to have its banks fail".
he better be careful...they may send a little democracy his way...
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a fucking hellfire missile! Farage better check that six...
Naw it'd be more like autoerotic asphixiation for him.
Agree. If they can't assassinate his character the job's only halfway done. They would probably plant gay porn at the scene; kiddie porn at that.
There is NO Time LEFT,
There is no more touchy-feely garbage left. This is war, Plain and simple, Get off your butts AND quit handing over everything soooo very willingly. Who cares is you got Pm's and a rifle? That does not cure the problem that some people need to go to jail.
Called " Crimes against Humanity".
I have read this blog for many years and watched it go to shit.
NOW I call for action.
Not violence. But quit fucking around. This will destroy the world as you know it. So please wake up an quit parsing,. And ego feuding. And whatever. This is some serious business here so quit wasting time.\
Quit wasting time and energy on your ego jokes and crap. Quit wasting time on garbage. Your future; your children's future depends on your decisions.
What kind of nonsense is this? Seems to me that most comments here desreve to be put in the garbage of propoganda or stupidity or brainwashed or fanatsy.
GET REAL you silly deluded folks. I am not going to save your butt. Nor is the lying bastards called USA. Nor is your opinion of Farage. God knows none of you idiots have the balls to stand up and do what he does daily.
I will repeat that. Most of you, as you pour your beers and sit in judgement and collect the paychecks others envy and bash every homleess guy, and mourn the death of Republican politics and sit on your fat asses and portfolios. I say How dare you?
Fuck off and die. You have absolutely not one clue hoe HATED the Yankee crap is world-wide. (not the people, It is the gov't. CIA and allllll of the lies.) The Yankee dollar is dying. Will I mourn? Will Farage mourn? Tell you kid. Ain't my problem you have lived a lie and deluded yourself for decades. The whole world wiaits for the downfall of the American ego machine.
And last word. The Whole wide world is so sick of the USA garbage. Just so sick
We do not like your politicians. We do not buy your crap on secret threats, We do not buy your garbage. And guess what? That, like any relationshipr gone sour, is not our problem.
It is not my priblem that then USA does not educate their children. (because guess what they are sooooo low on the literacy scale( unless you got money)).
It is not my problem tha the USA has allowed corporations ton act with rights reserved for human beings. WHY and WHY ia it that BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS were spent electingn a President
Where has your society collapsed too when billions of dollars are fueling your democratic debate?
Pardon. Like the citizens. I will willingly help yo blow up the US gov't annd shady banker alliances and corruption.
USA , that is the citizens. Have to take a good look at the fact they are being treated as slaves.....(and iditots)
And all I can really say is fuck you, If you can't see it then double fuck you,'
And if you can;'t see then; then guess what? I will fuck you over every chance I get,.
You simple idiots have not understanding o0f how muchn the rest of the world despises you
constipated?
You are right it is the Rothschilds, Goldmans, Morgans and all those banksters of Somalian origin who are on the way to cause the worst genocide in the history of mankind.
When are we going to learn the fact that Somalians should not be allowed to be involved in the financial world and even less to control it.
He´s working for the Rotschilds, who themselves have bet on the demise of the Euro several times already btw, you can easily google more references but here is a link for starters, it´s from the Torygraph so you Farage lovers can´t doubt that source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9484435/Lord-Rothschi...
Oh Nigel Farage, Esteemed fellow of the Corporation of the City of London, such intricate webs you spun, and look at all those flies you´re catching in them, well done mate!
One note of warning though; Brits mistaking him for a proper hero are in for a rude awakening if he would ever come in a position of power, if anyone is a bankers lackey it is Mr. Farage. Here is an interview with him from the Daily Bell (http://www.thedailybell.com/28731/Anthony-Wile-Nigel-Farage-on-the-Europ...)
I could go on for hours about the hypocrisy of the guy but I´m tired and need a beer, you can do your own fuckin research or not, besides, it´s not like a single soul on the continent takes anything coming out of Britain seriously anymore these days anyway.
Cheers.
Hope you found a good beer. Look, have a little pity on we colonists. Farage is freaking entertaining - and we're all about being entertained. Besides, we have all accepted that all politicians are lying scumbags. That Nigel can't walk on water is well known - and ignored. And he seems to be kicking the very people we so long to kick. BTW - as regards taking Britain seriously - I hope I don't offend you by observing that when John Paulson was stuffing idiot investors with junk CDOs in his Aurora trades, the boyz from the City qued up nicely. The fact that John was laughing as they left should not be taken to mean he didn't take them seriously - he took them very, very seriously. Tits up, mate.
very poor argument indeed. fuck off.
He accepted a private dinner invitation at Rupert Murdoch,s house, the main puppet in UK media.
Only time will tell on which side Nigel resides.
Can anyone point to a video or news piece that shows Nigel speaking ill of Wall st or The City of London in the same fashion??
I dont think so......
Wall st and the city are just geographical locations.
Farage takes exception to an ideology.
The geographic location of his attack happens to be Brussels but it could be anywhere.
The city of London was set up to be independent In direct opposition to totalitarian control, while Brussels was set up to implement it.
Big difference...
I read the UKIP manifesto. Nothing special. It does not balance the budget, so they are not worth voting for. Sorry kids, need to find heroes elsewhere.
Farage is one of the true policitical heros of our time. We need more like him.
http://sprottmoneyblog.com/
Quiet Peasant
By knowing not just him but also his party (UKIP), it gets a lot easier.
OT: Meanwhile, guy in Kansas is planning to pay for a $40K Jeep using Bitcoins. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732434580457842669234039010...
Holy Shit, that's my home town.
Believe it or not (and most of you will ding me for it) but this isn't some backwater town. It's a very affluent, wealthy place. It's where Sprint is headquatered.
It's seriously no different than any other suburb.
I wonder if he pays the sales tax in bitcoins.
The credibility of the European administration is now on par with that of the US administration; zero.zero
On a VERY short timeline, the credibility of politicians tends to zero - to paraphrase
Although I did get a laugh from hearing him (sedately) cheered early on in that speech, it's easy not to love UKIP, because they don't address the fundamental problem of a privatised, debt-based money supply. Indeed no UK party questions the Bank of England's monopoly on the creation of currency, even though our central bank isn't terribly subtle about the fact that they're a private company, rather than a .gov organisation.
You should really do some research before just repeating stuff you saw in The Money Masters, as interesting as that docu is.
The FED is private, the Bank of England has been a public entity since 1946 onwards as you can see in the Bank of England Act of 1946 when all bank stocks were transferred to the Treasury; http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/Documents/legislation/1946act.pdf
Honestly, where banks are concerned, what's the difference?
It´s semantics I agree, but in a debate those can bite you in the ass pretty easily, so it´s always good to get your facts straight.
Agreed, and I stand corrected, officially at least the BoE is part of the government. That's in contrast to the Fed.
slaughterer: "How can anyone with common sense and a heart not love Farage?" [while at +74, -1 score...]
Not that I disagree, but guess what they said about Hitler, Thatcher, Reagan, Bush, or Obama when they were at peak popularity? Only time will tell if a politician is more than a great motivational speaker. Until then, we/I remain... "cautiously optimistic".
That's the great thing about loving an underdog. They are going to lose, but they have the occasional good game.
bush a great speaker? really?
Dodging those shoes in Iraq.... That was the peak of Bush's inspiring moves for me.
Seriously - I was proud of Bush as he ducked and weaved with a smirky smile on his face.
GW Bush's best moment ever!
His father... Throwing up on the Japanese sushi.... CLASSIC!
Ahhhh.. the mamories.
1. Ok, in HINDSIGHT (which we ALL) get to enjoy, I'll retract having "W" in the same league of public speakers. Fine. But let me ask you this: Did you (a) vote for him and (b) did you not applaud and cheer him after his 911 speech? The point is, he did has his motivational moments. And NONE of us are immune from getting pulled in. It's natural.
2. Note my disclaimers: "Not that I disagree...", or "Cautiously Optimistic". Did any of this actually sink in? Or do you feel free to parse, cherry pick and repackage? Like they do on FOX TV?
3. His political "Deliverables" on the job consist of... next to nothing. His role is that of an Attack Dog (Euro critic). When your role is to criticize, and not take ownership for creating policies, you sure can come up with great zingers. It's easy to destroy, difficult to build.
So... notwithstanding #2 above, let's try to stay objective -- even as fans. Which, as I've said, I'm one of. And even though I think that Ron Paul -- who was also there -- is more genuine. But that's just me.
my fave was 'nucular'
Bush would have been much more likeable if he had showed us a little of Nigel's fire in the belly .... he was from Texas .... he wore boots .... but he did put a boot up Sadaam's spidery, rosette asshole ! Mexican slang word of the day: Nudo de ligas .... a knot of rubber bands .... anus !
pssh.
speak for yourself. it's only "natural" for voters.
"Common sense is not so common." Benjamin Franklin
Farage in 16, now that born here no longer required
How long before he is sllenced?
They will allow his speech for a a bit, Then it will be silenced,
Heaven help us all. ALL truth iis being muzzled/murdered/contained.
ONLY an idiot cannot see this.
Men who standup and fight for what is right are so few and far between in this world, Farage is one of the most honorable human beings left on this pathetic excuse of a world, he must truly be blessed with a tongue from god to be able to speak the truth with such vigor and righteousness.
You need to call a spade a spade. It's that simple. Good job Mr Farage!
Eat it British Thather haters.
You'd be in the Euro right now begging unelected bureaucrats for mercy if not for the Iron Lady.
Brown could have tried to put it through, but he didn't.
Not defending him, but facts are facts.
Mexican TV showed him eating a booger in Parliament .... over and over again !
I don't think it was thatcher that kept Britian out of the Euro. I think the Quenn might have had an opinion and maybe a few prominent bankers. They are after all in the Euro-Union.
The UK is very much part of Europe.
Thatchers policies of internal destruction of the UKs primary & secondary industry was the mirror image of Europes mercantile growth but to be fair this was a much older project starting after Suez.
Its also a major part of the troika.
Its the other side of the real goods coin.
Farage wants us to devalue against Sterling...................this is better then the current euro situation where we have little internal means of exchange but the Uk will then remain in reals goods deficit.
The unions destroyed industry with help from their politicians. Thatcher crushed the unions and got the rest of he country out of the business of propping them up in exchange for shitty goods and services.
It was much deeper then either Thatcher or the unions................the decay started after Suez.
"the decay started after Suez."
The decay started long before Suez. Promotion in the British Military always depended on social status. Surrendering Singapore without a fight was a pretty good indication much of the former British Bulldog character had gone to the dogs.
+1 This
It's the standard evolution of great nations and great empires when they are past their peak and start sinking into mediocrity:
- People loose the risk-taking and fighting spirit, retain some prosperity for a while by exploiting what's left over from their previous greatness (but without building anything new) and have a smug sense of superiority based only on celebrating past exploits, not because of present ones.
You can see some of it in all places that were once the seats of great cultures and empires, like Egypt, Greece & Italy.
I got a little Bull Dog in me .... escaped Pilgrim stock !
"The Square Mile" aka "The City" isn't even part of England.
Research it.
It's a throwback to times medieval.
The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street is a heartless bitch.
You mean, "if not for the City of London."
Equating any action to a puppet is to display an incredibly immature perspective. You might as well start talking about the logistics of Santa Claus or something as equally improbable.
I live near Henley in England, the very heart of the Tory UK power base, was in getting my eyes checked last week got chatting to some guys/activists ....all UKIP, based on that place and those people, Tories are bollocksed next election...Labour or UKIP
I want you to be right, but it's more ikely UKIP will come second in every constituency and end up with no seats.
Next month's local election will be interesting. I will more than likely stand for UKIP in the local elections in 2014 (none in my city this year). Mine is a very mixed lib/lab/con area so I would stand a chance.
Do it, I'm thinking of standing locally too, Ironiclly I stood in 97 for Blair/NL in local council...what a cunt was i shown to be, the first step on any journey is the hardest, we need to change in uk
Lots and lots of ex-Tories seem to be going UKIP. It'll be interesting when we start seeing ex-Labour signing UKIP.
I have always voted Tory previously, but I dont see myself doing so again. In fact I got a bit curious about UKIP 18 months ago, and actualy became a member of the `party` , and for the princely sum of £40 have been bombarded ever since with invitations to meetings of local members in pubs - get togethers in private houses - events where Mr F himself is speaking and endless e mail links to media coverage. I have to say the organisation is impressive. It is gaining traction in middle England at a steady pace and will destroy the Tory vote at the next election. However there is a hell of a long road to travel before even winning a serious number of westminster seats is realistic. And dare I say it a lot of policy to be set out...
I have related on here before how 6 odd years ago I had occasion to e mail my Euro MP reps about a bit of agriculture legislation (because we elect our Euro MP`s via proportional representation each `citizen` has more than one) Labour / Tory & Lib Dem reps replied by post with varying degrees of condescension and disinterest. Farage (who I had never heard of before) rang me up - at 8 am the next morning, having read and understood my letter he explained exactly how the vote would go, who would vote with whome and what the outcome would be. He was 100% acurate in his prediction, he described the legislation as `bollocks` and assured me he would vote against it (with the French, which amused him greatly) it did not get through. That Gentlemen is how our elected representatives should behave.
How right he is.
Nigel gets his talking points from the 'city of london'
Without a doubt. His Euro bashing is a smoke screen.
Farage is simply very, very true.
Comparing them to common criminals is unfair to common criminals.
Be careful Nigel you'll be labeled as a " damn right wing extremist" and dealt with accordingly.
from the caption it looks like he is yelling BTFD!!!!
To me he looks like he is doing it all FTMFW ....
OOOOF! I felt that from here!
Painful truth.
But not if you are living the dream of a chubby Eurocrat!
K@
OOOOF! I felt that from here!
Painful truth.
But not if you are living the dream of a chubby Eurocrat!
K@
Gotta love the guy in the background with the THIEVERY! chants...lol
That's Godfrey Bloom. Look him up on wikipedia. He's 'controversial'
I did, and I like him!
Man crush or political sympathy ?
Well said Nigel. Down with the statists.
When did he become an anarchist?
Nigel Farage is the European Patrick Henry. Every one of these tirades is a triumph of fearlessly speaking truth to power.
Can't we send Piers Morgan back to the UK and bring the "Farage" over as a replacement. I'd be willing to throw in California for some boot.
Fate the Magnificent
"Push the Button, max
No deal
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/search?q=piers+morgan&state=open
Piers Morgan is yours now.
We operate a strict no returns policy.
P.S. will you take Madonna back?
NO! We'd never get the fish smell out of the country again...
They will build statues in this man's image
I'd buy that guy a pint!
he'd drink it. :)
Too bad Farage can't be President here in the US, natural born citizen requirement and all.
Didn't stop Obozo.