Tag Archives: Herman Van Rompuy

The fourth Reich?

By scrubber | Published: November 16, 2011
The Daily Mail, in classic “Hun-baiting” fashion has had a pop at the Germans today. Entitled “Europe speaks German now!“, it centres on comments made by one Volker Kauder who is one of Angela Merkel’s closest allies. He is, in fact, the parliamentary leader of Merkel’s CDU party and he made the comments in a [...]
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The Brussels Bunglers have no Plan B

By scrubber | Published: June 29, 2011
As the tragedy of Greek debt continues, the EU leaders, as can be seen in the following video, openly admit that there is no Plan B. Their only option, the only one they have considered and will consider, is another bail-out. This despite the fact that the previous one didn’t work (and nor will this [...]
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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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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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Nigel Farage roasts Barosso again

By scrubber | Published: September 10, 2010
The day before Daniel Hannan launches his campaign for an EU Referendum -he makes his full case in the Daily Telegraph of 7 September – Nigel Farage again speaks for us all in the EU Parliament. Wikio Wikio
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Nigel Farage monsters Rumpy again in the Euro Parliament.

By scrubber | Published: April 9, 2010
No explanation needed… Once again, Nigel Farage shames all of our political elite by “saying it how it is”: Well said, Nigel. Wikio Wikio
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BBC hatchet job on Nigel Farage

By scrubber | Published: March 3, 2010
Yesterday, through the mysteries of selective editing and hostile, leading questions, the BBC tried to make Nigel Farage look foolish and rude after his remarks regarding Herman van Rompuy in the European Parliament. I’ve been paying a lot of attention to this story over the last couple of days, and I can say with certainty [...]
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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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Herman Van Rompuy ‘power grab’ makes for an unhappy EU elite.

By scrubber | Published: February 27, 2010
I can’t decide which department this story needs to be filed under. Is it “told you so”, “no surprises there, then”, or “a statement of the bleedin’ obvious” According to the Telegraph today, our favourite “damp rag” is causing a kerfuffle in the upper echelons of the EU by, allegedly, extending his remit and standing on [...]
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