Posted on 05/25/2013 10:31:24 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
UKIP founder Nigel Farage is courting powerful City donors amid increasing anti-Europe sentiment among the UK’s business elite.
City firms – most notably the hedge fund, insurance and commodities sectors – are sick of the “unending blizzard” of regulation coming out of Brussels, says Mr Farage, who claims traditional City Conservative supporters are switching allegiance to UKIP.
“Slowly but surely, donors who would have traditionally supported the Tories are now holding talks with us,” Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph. “We are asking [City leaders] to help in any way we can.”
The most recent business convert to UKIP is Andy Brough, the star fund manager at Schroders, who is understood to have joined Mr Farage’s party after growing weary with the coalition Government and European attacks on the City.
Mr Farage also has the support of the influential hedge fund manager Crispin Odey, whose former father-in-law is News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch.
Mr Odey is not a member of UKIP, but threw a party at his Odey Asset Management offices on Thursday night to introduce Mr Farage to potential supporters and donors.
“I did it because I think it is essential for people to hear Nigel’s side of the debate,” said Mr Odey. “The real debate has to be, either we change the constitution of Europe, to make it much more democratic, or we get out.”
Neither Mr Odey nor Mr Farage would name the “wide range” of financial services leaders at the fundraising event. But Mr Farage, who made an hour-long presentation followed by Q&A session, felt there was a “warm sentiment towards our ideas”.
He said: “There is a growing feeling that we should be regulating our own country, with the view that we should be a global, not a European, financial
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Could this man be the next prime minister?
I LOVE you, Nigel!
GOP-e take note. Your path is the path of the Tories.
Sounds like the UK may be “Making Plans for Nigel.”
That would be huge
but didn’t UKIP just approve gay marriage?
Conservatives! Look what is happening in Britain! Go and do likewise, dammit!
UKIP: The Tea Party that really drinks tea.
Indeed. We could use a USIP. With Rubio pushing amnesty, Toomey going for gun registration, Ryan embracing homo adoption, it’s become more and more obvious to me that the GOP no longer shares my values. As if the message wasn’t already telegraphed to me by seeing the Party’s treatment of Palin over the past four years.
Not sure, but he did recently refuse to kick out members of UKIP who said homosexual sex was “disgusting”.
McCain fears a spreading invasion.
“it’s become more and more obvious to me that the GOP no longer shares my values.”
Near the end of his career someone asked Zell Miller GA’s former Governor and Senator whether he was leaving the Democratic party. Zell’s answer was that the Democratic party had left him. That is what is happening to conservative republicans.
Good for him, he was opposing his own party. A bunch of them wanted to kick out people for that.
Wow...these folks are usually the types that support free trade based regional blocs like the EU....because a lot of these folks support the easy transfer of wealth
Big pickup for UKIP and Farage
Heck not, UKIP is opposed to gay marriage (but they are for civil unions); it is the liberal tories (Cameron & Co) that support “gay” marriage.
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