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.
NIGEL FARAGEIt’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.
More Nigel Farage Quotes
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There’s unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.
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British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.
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No deals with the Tories; it’s war.
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I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
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It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.
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I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.
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Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?
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I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.
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I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we’ve seen in over 70 years.
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Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.
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I am married to a girl from Hamburg, so no one need tell me about the dangers of living in a German dominated household.
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I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.
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It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
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I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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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.
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Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
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Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away – he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
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Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
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We do have, I’m sad to say, a fifth column that is living within our own countries that is utterly opposed to our values, we’re going to have to be a lot braver… in standing up for our Judaeo-Christian culture.
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Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.
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There are two completely different Britains. There’s London, and there’s the rest of Britain.
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Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.
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My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.
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The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.
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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.
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I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
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