Tag Archives: EU

Suffering from election fatigue?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 28, 2010
I think I probably am, but not in the ways you might immediately think. In this era of media- and spin-led politics, we are seemingly interminably subjected to a constant barrage of soundbites, ‘news’, glad-handing, palm-pressing, baby-kissing and any other inconsequential drivel that our political classes and their sycophants in the media care to inflict upon [...]
Posted in Big Brother, Broken Britain, Climate Change, Corruption, David Cameron, Economy, European Union, Eurozone, General Election, Gordon Brown, Immigration, Legal lunacy, MPs Expenses, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Parliament, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Tony Blair, Tories, UKIP | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Nigel Farage: Greece in eurozone was a mistake

By scrubber | Published: March 11, 2010
Excellent commentary by Nigel Farage… Wikio Wikio
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Nigel Farage fined €2,980 for calling van Rompuy a “damp rag”

By scrubber | Published: March 2, 2010
Hot news, thanks to a tweet from Nigel: Sentence passed, letter from Parliament President: Maximum allowable fine 2,980 euros. Free speech is expensive in Brussels #UKIP Worth every penny, I’ll bet. Update: Nigel refuses to apologise to Belgium, the Damp Rag, or the EU Parliament… Update2: Daniel Hannan has covered this in his latest blog: Nigel Farage is [...]
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Nigel Farage rips into EU president Herman Van Rompuy

By Jackal | Published: February 25, 2010
Whilst it seems the entire media has been debating the Gordon Brown bullygate story, they have missed the real ‘unleashing the forces of hell!’ Nigel Farage tipped us off on Tuesday via twitter that he had a 1 minute speech in the EU “Parliament” and that “Herman van Rompuy won’t know what hit him!”. Watch the [...]
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PIGS might fly without the Euro

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 15, 2010
I have long maintained that the Euro, as both a political and economic experiment, is doomed to failure. The cultural, economic and political differences between the member nations are such that without massive internal reform and political will, it simply cannot succeed. Indeed, since its inception, it has broken its own rules on membership. [...]
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