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
Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
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.
It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.
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.
You are on-call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation. I can't blame anybody in a voluntary capacity walking away.
It's hardly a radical idea to suggest that regulators and legislators understand the law now, is it?
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.