Farage always strikes me as a smarmy little **** whose main interest is the sound of his own voice. Of course his anti-EU stance hasn't stopped him claiming all the funding he can get from the EU.
I didn't know him until now, but that description seems to fit with his behaviour now. And yes, that is remarkable about the UKIP, isn't it?
And if Griffin is out of the country, we shouldn't let him back in
You could try denying him entrance the way you did Fortuyn, but somehow I think it'd only gain his party more votes.
Plus, then we would be saddled with him. We already have Farage being an ass. I guess we could try deporting him to France... hmm, this idea has potential. I'm not really looking forwards to the general election -
Labour are tired and a spent force, in addition to being pretty ethically bankrupt (the majority of people left are career politicians rather than people who believe in a cause).
The Tories are headed up by Blair Lite and have been bankrolled by Lord Ashcroft for his own ends (a completely corrupt individual who seems to have a strong grip on the Tories and surrounded with allegations of undermining democracy in various of countries). They seem to happily switch policy (the little they have made public anyway) at the drop of a hat and just have a general air of self-servingness about them.
Lib Dems just aren't electable and know it - I like the general principles of the party but they're not far off announcing free flying cars for everyone as a key policy because they know they will never get elected so their bluff will never be called.
I see your points - part of the reason why I say I could see myself voting for any of them is, of course, that I'm not wildly enthusiastic about any particular one of them. About the Lib Dems not being electable, though - if you get a hung parliament, suddenly they may become a lot more relevant. The UK could find itself returning to coalition governments or to minority government, and in both cases the Lib Dems stand to gain a lot of influence, assuming that the Conservatives would prefer Lib Dem support over Labour support. Then suddenly their bluff may get called, even if a real election victory is a long way off.
The UKIP makes a spectacle of itself in the European Parliament... why am I not surprised
- 25/02/2010 10:45:56 AM
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Yeah, I saw about that
- 25/02/2010 11:17:48 AM
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- 25/02/2010 11:27:49 AM
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Is there a "No Confidence" box on voting slips?
- 25/02/2010 12:26:40 PM
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There should be
- 25/02/2010 12:34:13 PM
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Re: There should be
- 25/02/2010 01:56:46 PM
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A. Whitney Brown had a bit like this 'long about the Bush/Dukakis election.
- 01/03/2010 02:14:11 AM
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What I don't get about the Lib Dems is their stance of ruling out a coalition government
- 25/02/2010 04:03:11 PM
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Marta Andreasen has something useful to say.
- 25/02/2010 11:56:30 AM
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Not sure your link title is true
- 25/02/2010 12:09:45 PM
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The fact that she was fired for it and nothing was fixed strongly suggests a cover-up.
- 25/02/2010 12:25:58 PM
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I don't think it does - the fact auditors never sign off the EU accounts mean it was already public
- 25/02/2010 12:50:18 PM
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"Pretty much a non-country"
- 25/02/2010 02:41:33 PM
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Well, you know... it is a fairly accurate description of belgium.
- 25/02/2010 08:08:38 PM
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It might not actually be all that bad of a tactic.
- 25/02/2010 05:03:01 PM
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The thing with Farage's comments is that they're completely inconsistent.
- 25/02/2010 05:59:14 PM
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- 26/02/2010 06:22:29 AM
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