Nigel Farage (talks about 2014 UK Elections....WE WANT AN EU REFERENDUM!!!)

You Tube ^ | 9/20/2013 | UKIP

[Kolath]

UKIP leader Nigel Farage at a political assembly talking about the 2014 UK elections and the current state of UK politics.

[SAJ]

FReepers who are unfamiliar with Mr. Farage should BECOME familiar with him. He is, not too much unlike Gov. Palin, one of the very few voices of republicanism (small 'r'), patriotism, fiscal sanity and general probity in the EU (haha) parliament.

And, absolutely no one on this planet can stick his finger in the eye of the arch-statists Barroso and VanRumpoy (sp?) as well as he.

[DuncanWaring]

Can we get him a Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth?

[GraceG]

Interesting that half the comments are from Polish who like Nigel Farage, gee, I thought Nigel was hated by immigrants...

[GraceG]

Can we get him a Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth?

Lord Monkton has one... Nigel can get one too...

[expat1000]

Very dry and boring for Farange.

Here’s an older 2 minute one on the Islamification of the UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EajFZvryGoE

And here you can see how he stands out from the other EU politicians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVknQBfaotc

[rrrod]

I miss the old UK......

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

"He is, not too much unlike Gov. Palin, one of the very few voices of republicanism (small 'r')"

He wants to kick her maj out? I should hope not. He won't win many votes from British patriots with that attitude.

[SAJ]

The comparison between Farage and Palin in not exact, nor did I claim so. For one principal reason: the US and UK are constituted through different mechanisms.

However, your point is NOT well-taken. The queen, although still very, very popular, is in the practical world a figurehead and not relevant to actual political manoeuvering. Farage most certainly has nothing in the world against the queen.

Farage (watch his speeches for years, ok?) is utterly staunch in his support of free mkts and traditional English quasi-democratic process, AND thoroughly and uniformly condemning of the likes of Cameron and his partly masked state socialism (not unlike the US' GOP establishment) and his mealy-mouthed waffling anti-English immigration 'policies'. Don't even get me started (or him, for the matter of that) about what he thinks about New Labour (aka Old Bolshie), that agglomeration of lowbrow totalitarian wannabees.

Further, he is and has been relentlessly anti-EU (NOT, please, 'anti-Europe' as the left would have it). In which view he is entirely correct; the EU as constituted is A) a slow-motion trainwreck in progress, and B) a bloody joke as a 'government'. Read the EU (haha) "constitution", an UNratified farce of a document, if you should happen to doubt my latter point here.

He is 'republican' as noted, in the sense that he is and has always been anti-totalitarian, anti-socialist, and anti-pure democracy forever. Not American republicanism as mentioned in the US Constitution, but republican by any rational measure.

I hope that this post clarifies my earlier description a bit for you, and FReegards!

[Vanders9]

Its probably more accurate to call him (and UKIP) “classical” liberals, or more specifically Liberal Unionists - as in what the Liberal party was over a century back under William Gladstone, believing in free trade, low taxation, anti-slavery, anti-imperial, pro market.