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Nigel Farage's UKIP Takes Clear Lead In EU Election Polls
Nigel Farage's UKIP has opened up a clear lead in the run up to next month’s elections for the European Parliament. According to ComRes, 38% of Britons certain to vote say that they would cast their ballot for the party, compared to 27% who would vote for Labour, 18% who would vote for the Conservatives and 8% who would vote Lib Dem. UKIP is damaging Conservative hopes as 67% of 2010 Tory voters are now saying they would vote for UKIP. However, it's not all rainbows and unicorns for the euro-skeptic party, as - somewhat expectedly - almost one third of Britons think that UKIP is a racist party; even as 48% believe UKIP has sensible policies.
European Voting Intention
- UKIP: 38% (+8)
- Labour: 27% (-3)
- Conservatives: 18% (-4)
- Liberal Democrats: 8% (NC)
But as ITV reports, there are some concerns...
Almost one third of Britons think that Ukip is a racist party, according to a new ITV News/ComRes poll.
Of the 2,052 British adults surveyed about their opinion of the UK Independence Party, 32% said they believed the party was racist. 40% disagreed with this statement and 29% said they did not know.
A third of the British public think UKIP are more honest than other parties
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82% of likely UKIP voters at the European Parliamentary elections think Ukip is more honest than other political parties.
Britons are split about whether Ukip has sensible policies: 38% think not, but 38% think the party does.
Half of 2010 Conservatives (48%) think that Ukip has sensible policies.
It seems change is coming - as Farage himself noted recently...
"The whole European project is based on a falsehood... and it's a dangerous one.. because if you try to impose a new flag, a new anthem, a new president, a new army, a new police force; without first seeking the consent of the people you are creating the very nationalisms and resentment that the project was supposed to snuff out." Farage concludes, he is not against Europe but is "against this Europe," and this year's European elections will mark the turning point.
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time for a plane crash?
Farage already survived one.
Although I do think that the EU will dispose of Farage is one sense or another. Its too late though, the damage has been done and Farage has given the continent talking points for the next 3 years.
Yes he was in a plane crash the day of the last general election.
I wonder if they use electronic voting machines? Polls are one thing, but elections are quite another.
The British Establishment is losing control of British politics, more and more people are voting for alternative representatives. This is putting enormous pressue on incumbents to listen to their electorate, that's why the British parliament voted down the Syrian escalation. The public didn't want it, even though the establishment did.
Brits have realised that they don't need to get alternatives into power to change the narrative of those in power, just threaten/scare them and the incumbents will move towards your position.
Look at UKIP, the surge of UKIP has forced the government to offer a referendum on EU membership. UKIP don't need to get in power to get what they want.
...The American Nigel Farage could very well be African American Neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson...In his speech last year, He wipes the smile off of President HalfrObama...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFb6NU1giRA
...Folks, Russia offered Ukraine $15 Billion plus higher salaries across the board, before the illegal, American/Nato led Coup d'état.
omg russian people want to work more and harder so that ukrainian folks could enjoy higher salaries accross the board...
all that thanks to former spy turned saint
Nigel Farage for US President.
Oh wait. Farage can't be President since he's not a natural born US citizen like Obama.
Oh wait......
Go, Nigel.
Your good pal Rumpy will be not amused.
Almost one third of Britons think that UKIP is a racist party,
Could they define the term “racist”? Were they asked to describe what they were asked about?
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.'...
"...any target can always say, 'Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?' When your 'freeze the target,' you disregard these [rational but distracting] arguments.... Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all the 'others' come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target...'
"One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other." (pps.127-134)
- Saul Alynski
Can we get one of those in US? Please...
Nope, pen and paper for us. leaves a trail which can be rechecked in case a candidate disputes the result.
He really shouldn't make toast while in the hot tub.
such a juvenile comment: "I do think that the EU will dispose of Farage is one sense or another"
I'd be delighted if Farage does not only win in the european elections but also in the later British ones, and take the UK out of the EU, for example
remember that it's the White House that is telling the UK to keep being "the gateway to the EU", and it's the US and the UK that are pushing that damn Trans Atlantic Trade Pact
sadly, the chances of UKIP winning any seat with the British electoral system are very, very slim
so it's the UK that is disposing of Farage... by having him ranting in Brussels instead of leading in Westminster
So what happens when the UK leaves, and then does better than the continent? Will you learn from their example, or just get MAF and play the "at least we care about the poor in Europe and not just ourselves" card that you played when they left the fixed peg?
To be fair, the EU is not holding the UK economy back. Economically it has been good for the UK to be in the EU. It saves an enormous amount in overhead and taxes, as the EU is the biggest market for the UK.
The UK has been blessed with the free movement of people, so far, and there are no signs that a rush from the poorer countries to claim benefits in the UK is going on.
Just as Switzerland, the UK managed to pull in skilled people, like builders and electricians, programmers and other IT people.
Something that would have taken the UK a GENERATION to establish if it wanted to use locals.
A UKIP vote is more of a protest vote against the current political establishment and the desire for a skapegoat (EU immigration).
although i can confirm builders and warehouse operatives, not really sure about those IT people and programmers :)
London is full of them. If you are a programmer you can find a job in London (and periphery) within 2 weeks, and you even get to be picky. Several friends moved there, from Spain, Portugal and Greece.
Don't confuse the London economy with the UK, the UK is on its ass, London is still booming.
Just look at the payday loans, every third commercial on TV is for one of those, the other ones are for online bingo and cheaper and cheaper prices at the supermarket... That should give you an idea of how much the UK is on its ass... London is sucking the life out of the UK.
... and getting paid for it... he's no different than Wilders in Holland... he knows very well that you cannot change the system from the inside.. a cushy job at the EU parlement is waiting for him..
"Farage has given the continent talking points for the next 3 years"
sadly, it's not true. he has given the UK lots of talking points, yes. but for continental ears, his speeches have always elements of pure demagogery that are very, very hard to take seriously
example: "because if you try to impose a new flag, a new anthem, a new president, a new army, a new police force"
I don't remember the flag, anthem, president, army or police force being part of the "integrated market" vote back in the 70s. Do you?
I don't remember those either, but I do remember that they were all up for a vote. Did you vote for or against?
http://www.euroesprit.org/content/eu_flag_flag1.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo_-KoBiBG0
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Herman_Van_Rompuy_675...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_European_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europol
Shhhhhhh
He must discredit all those on here who hate the EU in order to get his paycheck. I don't want him and his family to starve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jiaU0xbOKs
then watch me how rabidly anti-EU I can become if this damn TTIP goes through. have fun with your Game of Thrones fantasies
Euro Myth Nr. 1: the flag. Yes, the EU has a flag. No, flying that flag is subject to national law. See for example Danish national law about what flags you can fly, where and when on Danish territories
Euro Myth Nr. 2: the anthem. Yes, the EU has an anthem. A nice one, btw. No, we don't use it, for sure not in the way Americans use theirs. btw is it a law that mandates that all football games start and end with the US anthem?
specifically, Farage objects against the use of the flag and the anthem at EU parliamentary sessions, btw. which is a bit silly for EU parliamentarians, but again, he is not speaking with them, he is catering to his electorate
Euro Myth Nr. 3: the president. Yes, the EU has now a president of the Council. No, he does not have really any powers, and most european president have anyway not much power, take for example the German one. He is a kind of secretary to the Council (where most power really is)
a president like in the US? pleeeeease, pull the other one, it has bells on
Euro Myth Nr. 4: the EU Military. Yes, there is one. No, it's more of a shell game. scratch it a bit, and you'll find... national forces
No EU nation is really giving their power over their national military away, and most of them are in NATO anyway, which is way less a top-down thing that many think
Euro Myth Nr. 5: Europol. Yes, it exists. No, it's not comparable with the US FBI or anything similar. It coordinates only. No EU nation is going to give away their police power. Europol has to be invited by a national police force in order to even coordinate, and does not really operate as a common police force
am i really the first person to upvote you?
what does this say about other ZH members?
perhaps that they have no clue about the EU? mostly it's of course disinterest
and the EU is happy about that, so they can talk and talk and talk.... you didn't expect any CHANGE to come from Farage's talking points, did you?
time for a plane crash?
One trip to Diego Garcia......coming right up!
please specify which airline so sheeples can avoid.
We need to clone Farage
Don't worry, some loony leftie with an illegal spork will do him in.
Best of luck reversing the tide, Nigel. And wear a spork-proof vest at all times.
Another principled man pissing in the wind.
The slur campagin being run against him by the British media is nothing short of digusting, someone is very very scared
I hope they can de-fund the BBC after the election. I thought they weren't allowed to engage in partisan politics under their charter.
This could do more damage to their plans than just about anything. Nigel in office with the backing of the people= game over
So, expect the attacks to become even moar ridiculous and if that doesn't seem to be working Nigel had best spend the last week of his campaign in a secret location surrounded by hundreds of ultra loyal, armed followers cause these psychopaths will try to suicide him, guaranteed.
It's all encompassing. The three establishment parties have formed a specialist attack group dedicated to smearing UKIP as racist maniacs.
I've never seen an effort like it. But the more they smear Farage and UKIP, the higher their polling results.
They are terrified of UKIP, even though the election is meaningless from an EU point of view. They could fill the parliament entirely with UKIP MEPs and it would make no difference, as the parliament has zero power - repeat, ZERO POWER. The Commission can do what it wants, when it wants. End of story.
The real point of the election is how it will be perceived in the UK if UKIP run away with it - which it increasingly looks like it will do, although it will be tighter than the most recent polls suggest, I'd say.
Expect things to get even dirtier as we get closer to May 22nd.
Time to start wearing that racist badge with pride. As its utter bullshit.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo
oh
I know....I can't find the words either.
What's British English for "dats raysis"?
"I say old chap...that's a tad off colour, don't you think?"
The "you're racist" bubble has begun deflating in the UK. Fewer and fewer people are buying that shit anymore. The only way is down.
In time, it will be left in the gutter like a used condom.
Having White Skin
We need a Nigel in the US.
em, i really like Nigel,
but hes nothing compared to Ron Paul,
what about Trey Gowdy (R-SC) ?
Don't bash me, I'm just asking, looking for anyone to carry Ron Paul's torch
Farage is a much better speaker. I love Dr. Paul, but he tends to ramble.
US no longer exists. I say good riddance, because there are no solutions to be found in the initiation of force.
I wonder what HermanVanSuckaDickRumplestiltskin thinks about all this?
Or Schultz, or Barroso, or Verhofstadt
keep voting uk, things are bound to improve one of these days. lulz
It's funny how no matter where you go that if you think differently than the Borg hive you are always labeled a racist.
We need to make a list.
Nigel Farage
Cliven Bundy
Pauline Hanson
That's all I can remember and I wasn't really paying attention.
(I don't like putting CB and PH on the same list as NF, as they are not in the same league. But they still managed to rattle the cage and get slapped with a "racist" sticker, so they made the list fair and square.)
Any more?
the racist charge is a total media construct, almost identical to the way the US media tried to portray Dr Paul as a racist, total nonsense,
Ukip are the canary in the coalmine in Europe,
DEATH TO THE SCUM EU.
Or as a German blogger recently put it: "Is the UK the Baltic countries of the EUSSR?"
Dig up Enoch Powell and make him foreign minister.
Even dead , he would be better than vague Hague.
'Tis true that ultimatums to foreign powers said with a yorkshire accent sound somewhat ridiculous.
Portugal's mainstream media has already labeled UKIP as "extreme right wing".
That's because it is.
Portugal is spread & bend over begging for the ECB for its largesse!
I read the party's web site. Nice ultra-nationalist B.S., as expected.
Then this:
• Develop shale gas to reduce energy bills and free us from dependence on foreign oil and gas - place the tax revenues into a British Sovereign Wealth Fund.
Hahahahaha! Shale drilling. Hahahahahaha!
How's little Mohammed doing?
Has he taken his first head yet?
You owe me a quarter cup of coffee and one computer monitor.
HA HA!!!
I hope Nigel wins..then he wil talk more..and I like to listen to him..he speaketh well..even the sheeple can understand him
Go Beppe Grillo!!!!
>>32% said they believed the party was racist.
You'll probably find that all of the immigration into the UK since the early 1990's accounts for the 1/3 of the voting populous. Anyone who enters any country is unlikely to support a regime change in this area.
Hey look what's the most popular bady name in London
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/6194354/Mohammed-is-most-popula...
It's a funny old world we live in.
That means 68% don't, right?
DaddyO
No doubt the Celts would be called racists as the Romans marched across the country.
There's a suspicion that Queen Boudicca was not a 'multiculturist'.
Very unenlightened, no?
UKIP be raycis yo.
i live in the uk..
but won't vote again, if i did i still wouldn't vote for farage,
unfortunatly he is inconsistant in the interest of gaining votes.. just like the rest.
i was hopeful, but the more you look into his policies you can see how he tries to pander to groups.
gay marriage and scottish independence being a great examples.
gay marriage and scottish independence being a great examples.
Yeah.....that's the whole freakin world there.
'examples'
ie not the whole freakin world.... jeez.
he is inconsistent.
The only thing Farage cares about is keeping the British financial empire going. Unfortunately for him his intended methods are a bit too nationalist for the globalists running the show.
What do you think the EU is after?
London
The 'Waycist' jibe, the 'big got' jibe, the 'Nazi' jibe are all failing in the UK. Enough voters have decided it's time to ignore the entire facade of PC bullsh!t. Times are a changing here in the UK.....at last.
Nigel Farage is a nice guy but he is being played too.
If him or other people from other countries with the same or close ideas get close to take power and gain a relevant position it would be the trigger for extreme bold move from the poweer that be.
Simply put it gives a legitimacy for the fake red/bleu team to make a "sacred alliance" and react to a democratic treat through emergency measures. Red/Blue put together still have the majority, while exceptional measures are taken, further buring any ressemblance in ours systems with a republic, the majority of the people will cheer them.
Sadly whereas I agree with him on a lot of front, I think he is a useful idiot. Aka his success would be greater success for his ennemies than for his supporters. You do not change the system from inside, it is a lie.
I'm not sure ytou can change it from outside either. Actually I don't think you can change thanks to the laborious nature of the masses...
"almost one third of Britons think that UKIP is a racist party"
More than one third of 'Britons' are not spawned from indiginous British people.
You can apply for British citizenship on the back of cerial cartons these days.
You can literally buy a UK vote, a Maltese passport can be obtained by investing EUR1.15m (of which you retain title to EUR500,000) in the island, and entitles the holder to vote in all UK elections, entitlement to travel and work anywhere in the EU AND, as an added bonus you can participate in the USA visa waiver programme - GREAT if you're Russian or Chinese.
New citizenship programme creates bond with Malta
The UK msm love a smear campaign on Nige.
Nigel seems like a Ron Paul type of character. He's a useful guy who will say things people need to hear, but he'll never really get anywhere. People don't want freedom. Most people seem to want bullshit.
Farage is bullshitting, he's a failed stockbroker, he doesn't care any more about the British people than the rest of the parasitic scum infesting our town halls and Parliament. He does, however, sound different which makes people think they have a choice, which is what they want from democracy.
Lib/Lab/Cons are the same shit with different coloured rosettes on.
I wrote to him asking for support/advice on my silver manipulation lawsuit, www.kingoftherepublic.com, and I did not get an answer. So I cannot bring myself to endorse him. Sorry Nigel.
Sorry if that seems a bit selfish, but I would have thought, that the issue of metal manipulation should be on the foremost agenda of any decent alternative politician. I can understand why you would mark that down, but the man needs to stand against as much of the corruption as he can, not just the easy bits.
Thank you Jesus.
The mainstream British political establishment are running scared, instead of just conning the public into thinking they have a choice of policies to vote on while releasing identical manifestos in different branding they're now opening joining forces to attack him: Ukip condemned by cross-party group for running 'racist' campaign.
It is obvious from the over the top media people are being recruited and paid to call UKIP racist.
Others who are also ‘paid-to-praise-the-EU’ try to dominate the argument when they are essentially earning tens of thousands of pounds a year to big up Brussels. Nick Clegg should not be participating in a debate on the right to national democracy seeing both he and his wife are subject to rules Governing their Brussels pension, containing a clause that does not permit them to criticise the European Union. .
Neil Kinnock receives an £83,000 per year EU pension, and Peter Mandelson pockets £31,000 a year from Brussels. Yet the two Lords were prominent figures both in the second chamber and across UK media arguing against the EU Referendum Bill, which if passed, proposes a referendum on UK membership in 2017.
“How can we, in a democratic society, allow this sort of thing to take place inside our National Parliament? What justification is there in giving those in receipt of conditional EU pensions any credence at all on the subject? They should all declare the conflict of interest and step far away from the debate if they want the general public to have any faith at all in UK politics. This is a debate of such national importance, attracting so much public attention, on a subject that could fundamentally change the way we are governed and yet it is being tarnished by self-serving and arrogant washed up politicians.”
It was relatively easy to arrange a referendum for Police Commissioners or Scottish Rights, why not an EU referendum?
Where is our democracy?
Nigel Farage and UKIP MEP's are essentially campaigning for the demise of their own jobs and pension pots which is admirable. All other parties who are delaying or against an EU referendum are in essence Turkeys do not want a vote for Christmas at all costs.
We owe it our next UK generation to get out of the whole EU, IMF, and Bankster mafia. Voting for any other party but UKIP will only change the Management of this obscene, current set-up.
lots of silly comments on tbis thread,
Ukip are a confirmed anti EU party, and they are surging in the polls,
if you think that is insignificant meaningless BS, well, i suggest you need your head examined,
if Farage brings home anything close to that in three weeks time, it will send shockwaves accross Europe,
And TPTB won't let EU going down or it will be accordingly with their own agenda which is integration in something even greater than EU or US.
As it is sadly he is a useful idiot, it could allow an union between the Labor and the Tories... for greater good.
I'm not please by that matter of fact but it is like pen and paper role playing, try whatever you want but you won't outplayed the game Master /Dunjeon Master if he wants you to die.
On one side it is a success for free thinkers but it is a greater success for those you don't like. It allows them to take "extraordinary" measure as a reaction to a treat (even made out). Pretty much if you vote for that type of guy you are setting for yourself the equivalent of a false flag.
Majority still is on the red/blue side. It does not please me go figure.
Are you well? Wanting to control & PROTECT your soverign borders and level of immigration is RACIST? How naive are you?
I guess I'll feel better after a youporn cession helps me getting out thosee bad humors of the day.
But yes I'm well. I don't care much for what the MSM says. But what I or you think is irrelevant to the matter at hand: the majority still believe in the blue/red team.
If he makes a serious score it will allow the red and blue to team up together and for the majority it will be a legitimate move.
It is unpleasing but you underestimate the resources of the system. See the sad matter of fact is that even if he would get a majority, it would simply take an attack on UK interest rates and a matching communicating campaign making him responsible.
Would sadly bury the UK further and serve as reppelent for anti EU ideas in others countries.
THey litterarily OWN the game :(
Red, Blue or Pink will 'own' NOTHING once the EU & IMF sinks their claws into the soft & tender Brit flesh!
'Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither & lose both.' - Benjamin Franklin
By EU and IMF you mean proxy for the City and one of the 2 main powers in this world: on one side the ones that owns the money and on the other the warlords?
Not that the City has not already plunder the country it is more about finishing the job by proxy now.
You missunderstand the nature of the voting system, we speak of representative systems, the voting system is one of the best system ever deviced by the highest class to control masses.
That is what I meant by they own the game, they control the voting system who raises and who can't. They do through funding and control of the media and even rely on cruder means when it is required.
Nigel in a landslide & we will see how tough the manipulators are! Seems like what they're doin' now ain't workin' so good?
I answer you a lot don't take that as aggressive I just wish I could share your optimism on the matter at hand... but I can't.
They are setting stage for Russian actions that could great a critically/event in EU that could allows them to take exceptionnal measure.
CFR said years ago they wanted a common currency for NATO by 2015.
The negociations with Canada are done wrt to a common NA/EU market are done, those with the US are on going. Mostly nobody speaks about it.
Indeed people are unhappy, but it still goes well enough (for TPTB), as even unhappy people disagree or are wrong about the primary reason behind the troubles they faces. They manage to wedge us even in discontentment lol.
Could you be right, clearly something is to happen, sadly it seems that those that the most prepared are the ones you dislike:
trade agreement, military agreement, reinforcement of non sovereign powers, greater interlocking of the banking systems, etc.
On the people side, well we have more discontentment and TPTB are not blind neither dumb as it is clear they have been prepparing the next stage for a (long) while.
Anyway don't turn into a pessimist as I did, it is depressing;)
The New World Order dogma is not a new creation. Tried many times over the ages & at times when it was much easier to do. Failed every time! Brits are a tough crew!
Do not succumb to the geo-political media driven fear & hysteria mantra! It is their only real weapon!
Vote UKIP!
Best news I've heard in 2014!
Hmm, let's see if I have this straight........UKIP is leading in the polls, has sensible policies but the headline? "A Third of Brits Believe UKIP is a Racist Party". And almost one-third think the UKIP is a racist party and 27% would vote Labour and 8% would vote Liberal Democrat. I wonder who those 1/3rd are who think they are racist? I guess the UK and the US are not that much different.
that 1/3 would be all the pakis and somalis and jamaicans that have been "imported" into the MC paradise. they see the writing on the wall, so naturally they scream racism.
TAKE IT BACK.
UKIP has the same sort of problem the Tea party has - it attracts all the real nutters who've fallen out of love with the incumbents.
True, the nutters aren't a large bunch, say 5%-10%, but they give the fuel necessary to the MSM to attack the party as a whole. This is why UKIP and the Tea Party are often described as having extremist views. Their views aren't extremist, it's just the views of a small minority.
The solution is to get rid of the nutters, but that's easier said than done as often they're very vocal and real political animals.
UKIP has the same sort of problem the Tea party has - it attracts all the real nutters who've fallen out of love with the incumbents.
True, the nutters aren't a large bunch, say 5%-10%, but they give the fuel necessary to the MSM to attack the party as a whole. This is why UKIP and the Tea Party are often described as having extremist views. Their views aren't extremist, it's just the views of a small minority.
The solution is to get rid of the nutters, but that's easier said than done as often they're very vocal and real political animals.
UKIP and the Tea Party are described as extemists because that is the only propaganda the media affiliated with the statist parties can throw at them. The propaganda has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with the self-serving BS of the MSM.
Clearly their propaganda is working on you.
"38% of Britons certain to vote say that they would cast their ballot for the party, compared to 27% who would vote for Labour"
This highlights the schizophrenic and divided mind of Brits. Whereas UKIP are strongly against the EU, Red Ed's Marxist Labour Party is strongly for it (despite playing down their real views in public).
Nigel is da' man. The rest are pussies or pretenders!
Maybe Nigel can buy the Clipper??
If UKIP end up polling over 50% in the EU elections there won't be any need for a EU in/out referendum as the people will have already spoken. 12% to go.
Does UKIP actually did favor the indigenious peoples of Ireland, GB, and Europe? That would leave out most of the ruling "elite," so I can see the danger.
Paul=Farage
USA=UK
MSM=MSM
Fed=City
City>Fed
Paul Sykes is financing UKIP.
What does that tell you ? It tells you Farage is a pawn in the great game. His role is to channel discontent.
Population control, baby.
Farage/Sykes are just another branch of the establishment. He's far more interested in supporting his mates in the City than doing anything for the "alarm clock Briton/Mondeo man": Farage: This assault on the City shows you cannot reason with Europe
Disinformation.
There is only one political party at present that says it wants to be out of the EU, and there is only one political party that would deliver it – and that is Ukip,” he said. “It is the only game in town. I am certainly not wasting my time, energy and money on any of the others.”
We are speaking in the drawing room of his beautiful Gothic-style home in the shadow of Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, set in a few hundred acres of prime North Yorkshire countryside. Sykes’s story is a classic of its kind: the son of a miner, he left school with no qualifications to become a tyre-fitter. He started dealing in car parts before branching out to sell second-hand buses and lorries to the Far East. In the early 1960s, when the Beatles were taking home £1,000 a week, he was earning three times as much and driving a Rolls-Royce.
He later invested in shopping centres, including the Meadowhall, near Sheffield, which sold for more than £1 billion, netting Sykes £280 million. In 2000, he created the Planet Online internet provider and, foreseeing the 2008 financial crisis, got out of commercial property before the crash. By 2010, he was ranked the 26th wealthiest person in Britain, worth about £650 million. Famously, he has said he will not leave his children any money, beyond helping them buy a house, so that they learn how to make their own way in life.
ANYTHING THAT STOPS THE TREND TOWARDS MORE GLOBALIZATION IS A GOOD THING. unless you wanna live like a sheep in a neighborhood/country you dont recognize.
Fuck yeah, Nigel ... destroy those EU-sucking cunts.
This will wipe the arrogant smirk off the faces of the socialist/communist/totalitarian infected EU pigs for sure! I pray that Nigel can muster up the strength to run those paracites out of town & back into the rat holes they came from! Go UKIP!
It is just GREAT that UK is first to wake up , and shows the way for other EU-regime countries
But, unfortunately, I'm looking for something MAJOR to happen. THEY will do everything in order to hang on to their power.
I'm afraid either they will not let him win , or they will 'convince' him to change his views
EU may be very lucky that neither French, Dutch, Spaniards nor Germans are able (usually) to vote UKIP.
The French are turning towards their own Farage in Le Pen: Le Pen urges French to vote against EU's 'gravediggers' (Yahoo/Reuters)
Right on!
ZH goes 'mainstream' and tries to 'sned a message' rather than presenting the FACTS.
Turnout in Eu elections are about 1/3 of the voting public.
So from a sub-set of people (voters), 1/3 will turn up - and 38% of THOSE have said they will vote UKIP. That's not a lot of people.
For Americans - this is similar to the winner of x-factor having a seat in congress based on their 'massive popularity' and votes cast in the auditions.
I wish Zh would stop promoting UKIP as some form of 'revolutionary party' when they are backed by hedge funds in the city - who of course have no interest in the voters desires or freedoms of people - but there are always some sheep willing to vote for slaughter.
Nigel Farage - a man whose time has come!
Put the commie freaks out of their misery big man!
"It's the MONEY, stupid."
I'm not against the Euro, but I am against this Euro: I'm all for a strong and independent ECB issuing a strong regional currency that is a Euro, but I'm against this ECB and its bastardized Euro, which is under the dominion of the Fed and has become a large tentacle of the NY Vampire Squid. Goldmanites everywhere.
Were it not for the current ECB, the Fed would have virtually no buyers of USTs left, and the fiat Ponzi that is the USD would come crashing down. Instead, the Fed and the ECB have effectively merged, by swapping Debt notes back and forth, and building the house of debt cards ever higher. It's to the point where, if one drunkard falls, so does the other. But the US is the bigger drunkard.
Clarity and perspective, folks. Clarity and perspective.
If he is projected to win I would predict hostilities in Ukraine go full tilt Hot-War just before election time.
You can thank the Satanical 'New World Order' U.S. Asst Sec of State Victoria (FU E.U.) Nuland (nee: Nudleman) Kagan for the bloodshed! Sure wud be a nice touch to see her hangin' in the town square!
people want change and they know that the other parties are just smoke and mirror parties. Farage better get more protection because the Cabal will feel threatened.
West Ukraine vote for EU = vote for return to communism!
Some years back I was living and working in Oz down under.They had a very similar maverick politician from Queensland named Pauline Hanson.The media in Oz belongs to two family dynasties: Rupert Murdochs press and Kerry Packers press.There are basically two political grouping in Australia and they did not want a third party coming out of nowheres "splitting the vote".The MSM and politicians did a hatchet job on her,total smear campaign that would have made Joseph Goebbels smile.
UKIP has touched a nerve somewhere,and their growing support is significant as a barometer for UK politics.If the long term benefits are cancelled out by huge social costs then Nigel is correct to warn his constituency about these issues.
He constantly refers to his fellow EU MP's as unelected parasites.
Perhaps Nigels detractors should keep this comparison in mind.
(Also,any fellow who can roger a Latvian barmaid five times in one night gets my vote!)
This is true, Pauline got dangerous to the two main parties and had to be removed Aussie style.
The Times and Evening Standard -- are going all out for muck throwing against Farage... for employing his wife.. don't we all if we have a Ltd company.. and tarring them as rascist.. the Fear to the Rothschild Binary Blairite or Tory elite for government is palpable.
The tipping point in UK politics has happened. The voters want rid of the entrenched political corrupt pygmies, but like red/blue, they have only had limited choice up to now to successfully vote in independent candidates.
Most UK folks realise UKIP have slightly more lunatics than the main parties, but see them as a disruptive force that might break up the system.
The tipping point is, that the more obvious the attempts to discredit UKIP candidates in the media (mostly with racism allegations) the more the people distrust the main parties and swing behind UKIP.
Farage is the enemy of my enemy, so meantime he is my friend.
A real freedom-loving party: UKIP uses police to habe blogger remove legitimate tweet.
Police have asked a blogger to remove a tweet which fact-checked Ukip policies but did not break any laws after receiving a complaint from a Ukip councillor, prompting concern over attempts to stifle debate.
"The police explained that I hadn't broken any law – there was no charge to answer and it really wasn't a police matter.
"They asked me to 'take it down' but I said I couldn't do that as it had already been retweeted and appropriated, copied, many times and I no longer had any control of it (I had to explain to one of the officers what Twitter was and how it worked). They said that they couldn't force me to take it down anyway."
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/12/police-ask-blogger-remove-legitimate-tweet-ukip