Nigel Farage -v- Lord Liddel

Not to be confused with the
idiot Lord who thinks the euro
is a success

I've just listened to an excellent Five Live Breakfast interview with Nigel Farage, Lord Liddel (Labour) and someone called Chalres Kennedy who isn't a drunken failure of a Scottish politician, he runs a record label. The record label is called "Invisible Hand", presumably after Jean Monnet's "invisible hand" approach to imposing EU government on an unwilling population by doing it as secretly as possible.

Here are some of the best quotes from the interview:

Liddel "The euro itself has been a spectacular success"

He was being serious!

Farage "You are in receipt of an EU pension"
Liddel "No I'm not"
Farage "You will be in a couple of years"
Liddel "Nigel, you yourself are in receipt of a salary from the EU"

The difference being that Lord Liddel (like Nick Clegg) is obliged to promote the EU or he will lose his EU pension.  Nigel Farage, on the other hand, will never receive a penny from his EU pension because he's devoted his life to trying to bring the whole corrupt organisation down.

Liddel "Could I also correct something that Nigel Farage said because I don't think people should be allowed to get away with factual inaccuracies. He says that the eurosceptic party almost won the Finnish election. In fact they only got 21%."
Farage "Yeah and the winners. What did the winners get Roger? The winners got 1% more.  They came within 1% of winning the general election"
Liddel "The the the the the Finnish government is a coalition of parties"
Farage "When will you stop lying to people? There is a huge rebellion taking place across the north of Europe"

Labour came within 7% of winning the 2010 general election and finished 6% ahead of the Lib Dems.  Does this mean that Labour didn't come second in the election because of the ConDem coalition?

Caller "If this isn't a dictatorship then why have we, the British people, not been allowed a referendum?"
Farage "Quite right"

dic·ta·tor·ship [dik-tey-ter-ship, dik-tey-]
–noun
absolute, imperious, or overbearing power or control

Liddel "We voted 2 to 1 in 1975 in favour of membership"
Caller "We did not vote for this. We did not vote for this dictatorship."
Liddel "It's not a dictatorship"
Caller "I'm a 55 year old woman and I would get on the streets and fight to get rid of this"

I'm 33 and I've never had a vote on the EU and the EU didn't even exist in 1975. Nobody has had a vote on membership of a political union.

Caller "I hate the dictatorship, I hate the freeloading MEPs, all the little niggly things, all these stupid laws they bring in. You can't have so much jelly on a pork pie. What the hell has it got to do with them what I want to put into my body?"
Presenter "Charles Kennedy, why is it a good thing?"
Charles "Because um ... because er ...er"
Caller "Have I blown your legs off? Am I talking common sense?"
Charles "No well I er, I haven't heard a specific example of why it's bad actually"

Apart from the specific examples that the caller just gave you?

Farage "The English should be recognised as a country, we need an English Parliament, we need a new relationship with Scotland and Wales, we need to stop massive open border immigration"

Is this a proper devolved English Parliament to put England on an equal footing with the rest of the UK or is it the same British Grand Committee of British MPs elected in British constituencies in England that UKIP has previously incorrectly called an English Parliament?  If it's the former then this is great news - the opposition to devolution and fascist enforced Britishness policies are the only black marks in what is otherwise the most common sense manifesto of any political party in the country.  If it's the latter then Farage really needs to stop misleading people - if he believes in the anti-devolution policy and thinks that people will support it then there's no need to mislead them into thinking it's something else.

The 1997 Group is a group for UKIP members who believe that UKIP should support devolution.

Wrexham Radio Station Promotes UKIP

A pioneering radio station which was the first community radio station in Wrexham back in 1997 and the first to launch an exclusive online radio service for the town in September 2008 is first again, by creating promotional advertisements to play on the air for UKIP.

Wrexham FM managers John Humberstone and Roy Norry came upon the idea after observing a virtual blanking of UKIP by the mainstream media. The adverts feature quotes and sound bites from UKIP leader Nigel Farage in what Roy Norry describes as “a powerful series of messages”.

The managers of the radio station checked broadcasting regulations of Internet radio stations and found there is no restriction in place. Roy Norry said “We’re pretty free to do as we wish, and in view of recent media reluctance in general to acknowledge UKIP, and in view of the overtly biased coverage that the BBC gave to everyone except UKIP in the Norwich by-election, I wanted a chance to redress the balance, and as it happens John was thinking along similar lines. There followed a discussion with a UKIP Wales representative who was delighted with the idea”.

The UKIP radio adverts are viewed by the managers of Wrexham FM as “an innovation in online community broadcasting”. Licensed FM stations in the UK which are regulated by Ofcom are not allowed to broadcast political adverts and stations that fail to observe this particular piece of Ofcom code are punished with heavy fines and a possible revocation of their broadcasting license. Roy Norry said “Why shouldn’t bona-fide political parties be allowed to advertise online if they choose to? The rule is as archaic as the one which for years prevented solicitors from advertising on radio stations.

“We are now in the digital age, an age of innovation and an age of pushing new boundaries, and Wrexham FM is once again leading the way in innovative programming by doing something that other radio stations dare not do and cannot do, legally.

“In addition, and just as important, all of my personal dealings with UKIP have been with an army of volunteer workers who live in the community and who work hard for the party because they believe that it will make their community and quality of life better, and that makes local political parties no different to other local community groups who are striving to better their environment through what they believe in, be it religious organisations, charitable groups or social organisations, all of which are allowed to promote themselves on radio. So why can’t local political parties? As far as I’m concerned there is a place for everyone on Wrexham FM if they care to make use of it”.

Mike Nattrass MEP on Radio 5 Live TONIGHT

Mike Nattrass MEP is on Radio 5 Live at 10pm tonight talking, for some reason, about black people in UK politics.

Presumably this is to do with Trevor Phillips' bizarre accusation of institutional racism in the political establishment which, he says, would prevent a black person becoming Prime Minister.

Nothing short of introducing a law requiring every other Prime Minister to be black would satisfy Trevor Phillips. The Equalities Commission and everything it stands for is one of the biggest barriers to equality in society.

I have no idea what Mike's response was to Trevor Phillips' accusation but I can guess!