Tag Archives: European Union

Bankruptcy, the Euro, and us

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2011
Let me start with a couple of quotations from an article in the Daily Telegraph of March 24th, 2011: “Portugal has defaulted on its national debt five times since 1800, Greece five times, Spain no less than seven times (and 13 times in all since 1500). By contrast, Anglo-Saxon countries rarely, if ever, default. In this country, [...]
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Rumpy-Pumpy: hypocrite? Moi?

By scrubber | Published: March 17, 2011
Second hat-tip of the day to Daniel Hannan. This time, for a great article, containing two excellent film clips. The first of the excellent Nigel Farage roasting Rumpy again, and the second of a Belgian MEP, Derk-Jan Eppink – of whom I have been in blissful ignorance, to be fair – who really does a [...]
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Ireland reaches for the KY again

By scrubber | Published: March 17, 2011
The first of two hat-tips to Daniel Hannan today. This is for his excellent article on the way Ireland continues to be treated by the EU. That is, with contempt, arrogance and disdain. He speculates that Fianna Fáil will return to its nationalist roots, but prefaces that with the following: “Fianna Fáil is not easy to pin [...]
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The People’s Pledge.

By scrubber | Published: March 15, 2011
[UPDATED] Today Daniel Hannan and his merry band have launched a new initiative for an In/Out referendum on the EU. The full article is here, and I urge all our Eurosceptic readers to read it in full. That said, here follows a couple of snippets: “Today sees the launch of a major cross-party campaign for a [...]
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A Christmas message to the Euro-parliament from Nigel Farage.

By scrubber | Published: December 18, 2010
Y’know, this man is amazing. Just watch the Belgian squirm, and at the end, the side shot of Barroso laughing. Shameful: Wikio Wikio
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Hannan vs Farage in the European Parliament

By scrubber | Published: December 15, 2010
There are many out there who criticise Nigel Farage for his speeches in the European Parliament just as there are many out there who, like me, admire him for them. As we all know, he’s been hauled over the coals in the past by the Powers-That-Be, and taken a great deal of stick in the [...]
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Nigel Farage on FOX NEWS USA – December 2010

By scrubber | Published: December 2, 2010
Nigel Farage on Fox News again, in fine form. Interesting that they should describe him as an “English Tea Partier”… Wikio Wikio
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Daniel Hannan, Nigel Farage, and UKIP.

By scrubber | Published: November 30, 2010
Ok, voting intention/Party loyalty cards on the table (regular readers will know this anyway)… Here’s what I said on the matter back on May 5th: Here in Ipswich, as I’ve covered elsewhere, I’m urging everyone to vote for Ben Gummer, the Conservative candidate. Not because I support his policies, which in many cases I don’t, but [...]
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Who the hell do you people think you are?

By scrubber | Published: November 29, 2010
I meant to post this up a couple of days ago, but ran out of time. Nigel Farage tells the EU Parliament a few home truths. Cracking, classic Farage. Enjoy: Wikio Wikio
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UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom escorted form the European Parliament Chamber

By scrubber | Published: November 25, 2010
Most of you will have heard by now that Godfrey Bloom was thrown out of the chamber of the European Parliament yesterday after being gratuitously rude to the Euro-Socialist leader, Martin Schulz. Mr. Shulz was claiming that the UK was standing in the way of European integration, and Mr. Bloom, unable to contain himself, burst [...]
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