Nigel Farage: an ignorant, offensive twat

Nigel Farage, former leader of and an MEP representing UKIP, has launched an offensive tirade against the new president of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy. Farage was courting publicity, thinking that it will stand him in good stead with the voters of Buckingham, where he is standing in the general election, to abuse a foreigner.

Times report here. Farage said:

“I don't want to be rude but, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk...

“The question I want to ask is: who are you? I'd never heard of you, nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.

"I can speak on behalf of the majority of British people in saying that we don't know you, we don't want you and the sooner you are put out to grass, the better."

The institutions and ways of working of the EU definitely need reforming, but on the whole I would rather have the capitalist states of Europe cooperating with each other than ripping each other apart in wars, with working class people in the frontline. And, yes, I am still a socialist. Europe's lefties too often think that workers can get some advantage by siding with 'their own' nationalist-minded ruling classes against the 'European superstate'. In fact, they simply lose their political independence and wade into the swamp of xenophobia.

If I ever get around to studying for a PhD I will study left-wing Euroscepticism.

UKIP is a nasty party, and Nigel Farage is an ignorant, offensive twat. I felt it needed saying.