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
We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister - dishonest Dave [Cameron] - and we get a better Prime Minister.
You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.
Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!
It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.
It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
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.
It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.
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.
But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.