Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage
Nigel Paul Farageis a British politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Partyfrom September 2006 to November 2009, and again from November 2010 to July 2016. Since 1999 he has been a Member of the European Parliament for South East England. He co-chairs the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracygroup. He has been noted for his sometimes controversial speeches in the European Parliament and has strongly criticised the euro currency...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 April 1964
CityDowne, England
The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.
British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
I am delighted at Des's support in these elections. And thank him for his rewrite of the lyrics of Send in the Clowns which we are planning to sing at our South East conference.
We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.
It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.
When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
I have been called a great many things in my time - that's politics.
The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.