UKIP are a bunch of lunatics

[TopGun]

UKIP's reputation as a bunch of bizarre individuals with very odd views was cemented by leader Nigel Farage who accused the new EU President of having the "charisma of a damp rag" and coming from a "non-country" as he is Belgian!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8535121.stm

 

Everytime I have run across UKIP MEPs in my work I have to say that they have indeed been verging on bonkers with the views they hold! They are a very strange lot!

[South Londoner]

It's just a publicity stunt and fair play to Farage; it certainly worked !!

[for_heaven's_Saint]

I like weirdos.

[Joesaint]

Yea I wish he would shut his mouth the toff t**t, really annoyed me.

[South Londoner]

Apparently, he's trying to get himself expelled so that he can portray himself as a martyr for British democracy. (Well, that what they said on the Today programme this morning.)

[Gemmel]

UKIP's reputation as a bunch of bizarre individuals with very odd views was cemented by leader Nigel Farage who accused the new EU President of having the "charisma of a damp rag" and coming from a "non-country" as he is Belgian!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8535121.stm

 

Everytime I have run across UKIP MEPs in my work I have to say that they have indeed been verging on bonkers with the views they hold! They are a very strange lot!

 

To be fair if you watched on tghe news last night, it was quality TV.......and when they panned over to the president, there's an argument to say he got it spot on

[Wilko]

"I say, these naughty lot from the continent don't like free speech, what what old boy."

 

Farage = turd.

[benjii]

I like Farage.

 

Obviously this sort of thing is a publicity stunt but when you see him on a forum like Question Time he is one of only a few politicians who actually bother trying to answer the question put to them.

 

You might not agree with his views but if more politicians were like him things would be better IMO.

[bungle]

I like Farage.

 

Obviously this sort of thing is a publicity stunt but when you see him on a forum like Question Time he is one of only a few politicians who actually bother trying to answer the question put to them.

 

You might not agree with his views but if more politicians were like him things would be better IMO.

 

He NEVER answers the question put to him, he always turn it into an anti-Europe rant.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

St. Landrew knows, fairly closely, a UKIP member. He'll vouch that the one he knows is odd, at best!

[BadgerBadger]

I like Farage.

 

Obviously this sort of thing is a publicity stunt but when you see him on a forum like Question Time he is one of only a few politicians who actually bother trying to answer the question put to them.

 

You might not agree with his views but if more politicians were like him things would be better IMO.

 

+1.5

[aintforever]

He's gone up in my estimation after that rant.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

I prefer this rant in the European Parliament

 

[greg_hill]

I like Farage.

 

Obviously this sort of thing is a publicity stunt but when you see him on a forum like Question Time he is one of only a few politicians who actually bother trying to answer the question put to them.

 

You might not agree with his views but if more politicians were like him things would be better IMO.

 

This.

 

Except I agree with his views, too.

[wightman35]

I think Nigel Farage is great!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...............but I am a little eccentric.

Edited 25 February, 2010 by wightman35

[dune]

I'd have more respect for Farage if he stopped pretending he wasn't racist.

[Atticus Finch of Maycomb]

All UKIP members I have met (quite a few) have all been just as racist as the BNP supporters I have met.

 

Funnily enough, it occurs I have never met any UKIP 'supporters'. Just members. They have very few supporters I guess.

[Thedelldays]

Farage talks sense IMO

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

We all know where this thread is going...do we really need another left wring vs right wing argument thread?

[dune]

We all know where this thread is going...do we really need another left wring vs right wing argument thread?

 

Just wait til Brown calls an election...

[dune]

All UKIP members I have met (quite a few) have all been just as racist as the BNP supporters I have met.

 

Essentially the only difference is that one set is posh and racist and the other set working class and racist.

[Johnny Bognor]

UKIP's reputation as a bunch of bizarre individuals with very odd views was cemented by leader Nigel Farage who accused the new EU President of having the "charisma of a damp rag" and coming from a "non-country" as he is Belgian!

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8535121.stm

 

Everytime I have run across UKIP MEPs in my work I have to say that they have indeed been verging on bonkers with the views they hold! They are a very strange lot!

 

I am not a UKIP supporter and there is no need for Farage to be disrespectful to the Belgian, but if the damp rag is really paid more than Obama, then Farage is entitled to ask "who are ya".

 

As a taxpayer, funding the EU gravy train is not one of my priorities. How can the non descript head of the EU earn more than Obama (probably the most powerful / influencial politician / person in the world right now)?

[benjii]

Rory Delap probably earns more than Obama FFS.

[benjii]

I prefer this rant in the European Parliament

 

 

Awesome - what a cracking bit of oratory. :smt038

[Johnny Bognor]

Awesome - what a cracking bit of oratory. :smt038

 

His talking out of his arse, Gordon said there would be no more boom or bust. This whole recession rubbish is just tory lies and spin.

[Atticus Finch of Maycomb]

Essentially the only difference is that one set is posh and racist and the other set working class and racist.

 

No, the tories are the posh racists

 

BNP are the football-thug racists.

 

UKIP are the competely f*cking mentally delusional racists.

[benjii]

His talking out of his arse, Gordon said there would be no more boom or bust. This whole recession rubbish is just tory lies and spin.

 

Oh yeah, good point. Bloody spin doctors.

[StuRomseySaint]

I like UKIP, but prefer BNP

[saintkiptanui]

A c*cktail of red maggot and sweetcorn

[Channon's Sideburns]

Farage reminds me of Rupey Baby.

[1976_Child]

given the c u n t s in the labour party and the t o f f to s s er s in the tory party and the complete non-entities in the libdems i will either stay at home on election day or go and vote fore UKIP. don't know much about them but at least they are anti-EU which is always a good thing.

 

Seriously people, can you really see that slimey tw a t Cameron as PM? as for Brown, he is a ****ing lunatic deranged freak who belongs in an asylum.

[Wilko]

given the c u n t s in the labour party and the t o f f to s s er s in the tory party and the complete non-entities in the libdems i will either stay at home on election day or go and vote fore UKIP. don't know much about them but at least they are anti-EU which is always a good thing.

 

Seriously people, can you really see that slimey tw a t Cameron as PM? as for Brown, he is a ****ing lunatic deranged freak who belongs in an asylum.

 

I'd say this statement is pretty representative of most people who vote UKIP. Congratulations.

[JackFrost]

whatever happens in the next election we'll get a Tory government, like we've had since the 70s. The lib dems won't get in because they don't favour the rich, who own the media.

 

It'll either be Labour or the Conservatives. A Tory party who calls itself Labour, or a Tory party who calls itself The Conservatives

[1976_Child]

I'd say this statement is pretty representative of most people who vote UKIP. Congratulations.

 

sarcy ****.

 

It is people like you who think everyone should bow down and vote for the crap middle-ground of politics. There is nothing different about the labour, tories or libs. They are exactly the ****ing same.

 

Riddle me this matey: on the day the Redcar steel plant was closed down the government and tories were engaged in the usual infantile 'debate' about building a new high speed rail line from London to the north. Guess what railways need in huge amounts? That's right! STEEL! But because we are a slave to the EUSSR we can't nationalise Redcar and use its steel for the railway. It is 'uncompetitive'. Bull****. We're either a sovereign nation or we are nothing. Redcar made the best steel in the world. Any normal country would use its own steel for its own infrastructure. But not us! No, we must bend over and get shafted by a corrupt undemocratic EU which exists only to enrich the plutocrats who run it.

 

Time for common sense and you don't get that from Labour anymore. Nor the tories. And the libs are a facking waste of space.

[aintforever]

If you ignore the hilarious schoolboy insults of Nigel Farage he actually has a very valid point. None of us elected this European President, we were not even allowed a refurendum on Europe. The whole Europe thing is just a big self-perpetuating gravy train. and totally undemocratic.

[wightman35]

Farage talks sense IMO

 

Agree with you; especially when Farage reminds people of how many millions of taxpayers money gets sent to Brussels each day. :mad:

[ecuk268]

If you ignore the hilarious schoolboy insults of Nigel Farage he actually has a very valid point. None of us elected this European President, we were not even allowed a refurendum on Europe. The whole Europe thing is just a big self-perpetuating gravy train. and totally undemocratic.

 

Um, yes we were. Ted Heath took us into Europe in 1971 and, in 1975, Harold Wilson's government held a UK-wide referendum, the first ever. There was a 65% vote in favour on a 67% turnout.

[Thedelldays]

Um, yes we were. Ted Heath took us into Europe in 1971 and, in 1975, Harold Wilson's government held a UK-wide referendum, the first ever. There was a 65% vote in favour on a 67% turnout.

 

Then how come we vote for our leader every 5 years or so but no vote on Europe?

[ecuk268]

Then how come we vote for our leader every 5 years or so but no vote on Europe?

 

Because the decision to join the EU was the policy of the Tory Government of the time. Labour had their doubts so held a referendum to make sure. There's nothing to stop any party having withdrawal from Europe in their manifesto.

 

The problem with referenda is that where do you stop? Withdrawing from the EU? Abolishing the monarchy? Fluoride in the water? There's no clear role for referenda in the British Constitution.

 

If a large majority are so against the EU, you would expect UKIP to have many more MEPs.

[Trader]

whatever happens in the next election we'll get a Tory government, like we've had since the 70s. The lib dems won't get in because they don't favour the rich, who own the media.

 

It'll either be Labour or the Conservatives. A Tory party who calls itself Labour, or a Tory party who calls itself The Conservatives

 

I thought I was the only person to realise this.

 

Trouble is not many people remember the proper Labour party, whoever you vote for now you end up with the same thing, which is why a lot of people don't bother.

 

All Blair's fault.

[Trader]

Um, yes we were. Ted Heath took us into Europe in 1971 and, in 1975, Harold Wilson's government held a UK-wide referendum, the first ever. There was a 65% vote in favour on a 67% turnout.

 

The referendum, i seem to recall was whether we should join a "Common Market'.

 

Not a European Union.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

sarcy ****.

 

It is people like you who think everyone should bow down and vote for the crap middle-ground of politics. There is nothing different about the labour, tories or libs. They are exactly the ****ing same.

 

Riddle me this matey: on the day the Redcar steel plant was closed down the government and tories were engaged in the usual infantile 'debate' about building a new high speed rail line from London to the north. Guess what railways need in huge amounts? That's right! STEEL! But because we are a slave to the EUSSR we can't nationalise Redcar and use its steel for the railway. It is 'uncompetitive'. Bull****. We're either a sovereign nation or we are nothing. Redcar made the best steel in the world. Any normal country would use its own steel for its own infrastructure. But not us! No, we must bend over and get shafted by a corrupt undemocratic EU which exists only to enrich the plutocrats who run it.

 

Time for common sense and you don't get that from Labour anymore. Nor the tories. And the libs are a facking waste of space.

 

 

Which is why I voted "No to EU, Yes to democracy" last time round.