Farage Blows Lifeboat Raspberry in EU Parliament
Not a vintage Farage rant, but worth watching for the smiles and grins of the EU elite. They call that gallows humour…
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Also a good talker is Nige, shame the rest of his bunch arnt as normal as him.
Oh come off it. Farage is SEMI-trained at best. Agree the rest are full time loons.
Farage must make his mum proud. It was a pity that plane didn’t land a bit harder.
Pity the best bit of you dribbled down your mothers leg at birth.
Camerons so called vetoe was purely about stopping us having a referendum. The patriotic claptrap that followed was all spin and theatre as yesterdays performance confirmed he is a europhile. The reasons he gave about jobs, trade were specious. With a net contribution of £10 billion and a £50 billion trade deficit with the EU last year alone whats in it for us? Its just another gravey train for failing politicos.
Bowel functionaries
Directive Number Two – Risk assessment of prunes
You’ve mis-spelled “anus”
+1
How rude. I will show you my python you uneducated rabble. It may have where I was born (but it wasn’t – Google is such an edifying instrument innit?)
I think it was meant to be “mispelt” anyway.
Yes it was.
the faces of those EURO scum as young Nige (have we got a video?) nails it are classique
Who is this clegg he refers to?
sorry to double dip
I love the way the cnut in the cheap suit after Farage is so pleased with his 1 mile 86000 mile phrase he fcuks it up.
I was going to stand as an MEP – I am not a big enough loser
Farage is only speaking the TRUTH. The problem with the United States of Europe is exactly the Same as the Bankrupted United States of America. The Political Elite are out of Control. And have become so stuck up their own Ars- holes that they didn’t see that over regulation and over taxation of business would drag the whole global economies down the drain. The USA have a fiscal, wait for it massive $211 trilliion fiscal gap. A war mongering political class that have dragged the Worlds economic system to near collapse. I wonder how much more money the bankers will need to keep taking the blame???
Non trillion? is 2 iis bigger?
$200+ Trillion?
Evidence/arithmetic please.
Tinfoil ^ 2 = 200 trillion.
You will find the article in Bloomberg businessweek August 1-7th 2011
Article by Peter Coy
How long have you been putting “E”‘s in your Anus TaT ?
i always knew you were on drugs but not taken rectally
Pity you had to open your big fat stupid mouth.
I’d have more sympathy with the Scottish MEP if we, the UK, hadn’t had 13 years of Scottish rule, prior to the current government, and they didn’t take anyone elses wishes into account when they made their treacherous dealings with the EU.
Independence for Scotland will destroy Labours chances of ever governing at Westminster again.
It’s British Independence for Scotland…
Let’s hope so.
Farage does not sound like the greatest statesman we have produced.
It looks like our precious “City of London” is now going to have to move to Dublin.
Good riddance
Say What?
Exactly. Then everyone will be happy. Win … win. Leave the theory and practice of marxism to new Scotland. It is time to move on.
I want to know why people living in England don’t get to vote on continuing the union with Scotland. Most of us would like to get rid of those Buckie-swilling dole-scrounging layabouts. Espoecially the Scots who have emigrated to England.
Nor with tuition fees etc
You Liberal Tories are shit scared of Farage.
He has my vote.
Me too.
Farage is a legend.
A leg end…yes…
Without doubt, Nigel Farage is the best British speaker in this menagerie.
He speaks for the UK – no one else does, outside his party.
The crude, filthy criticism of him shows how he is upsetting the other political parties.
Once the euro collapses, it will be followed by the demise of the European Union.
Scottish Marxist got pwned.
Is that Nige’s sex face?
I know but I’m not saying
The simple Scotchman is a twat.
Farage is right, simply by being on the right side of history and being for democracy. How it must sting the wealthy Guardian readers.
You British will not escape my reach and wealth. I buy everything I need for Europe including loyalty and soon I will be your leader.
If you dont explode first you fat fuck !
Oh come of it ducky she was great at that wife swapping party
clegg?, a long unimportant quisling
Clegg: it’s the Scottish word for horse-fly.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/gordon-browns-gold-trade
Proof that Gordon Brown (former UK Chancellor and Prime Minister) is the worst gold trader of all time
Looks like Islamic Terrorism in Belgium today…
Chances the MSM will mention this?
Doubt it AC1, and if they do report it, I don’t expect them to mention anything about the isl*mic element. Doubt if the BBC will bother at all, unless they have some hand-wringing im*m to justify the atrocity.
Can we arrest them all for false accounting?
It used to be a crime in Germany to conspire to subvert democracy. Why has no-one been arrested in Germany for what they have done to Greece and Italy’s democratic systems?
Cause they are thick, on the losing end of two word wars and they still harbour dreams about domination. What a bunch of thick twats, looks like they are heading for well deserved hiding number three.
Ha ha, that is what you think Englander swine.
My crack generals are massing and my shock troops will give you a bloody nose, you will never forget.
General Sarkozy has the south flank, with his elite White Flag division.
Barosso with the Lichtenstein Home Guard and Belgian Waffle SS are massed alongside Rompuy and his crack battalion of Papier Kommando to the south west.
You have until midday friday to surrender, or face the consequences, that is all.
You have crack generals, Angler? That’s a new one on me.
Sounds unpleasant. Treatable?
Cause they are thick, on the losing end of two word wars and they still harbour dreams about domination. What a bunch of thick twats, looks like they are heading for well deserved hiding number three.
Are you meant to be Arbeit, Albeit?
My Kraut is pretty basic but I detect a spelling error.
Thanks for the remark Dobby.
I have been reading it as Albert makt Fries since it appe-ared but then each to his own
Sorry, I said my Kraut was krapp dinnoi.
The Titanic was badly built and doomed from the start. It was only a matter of time.
Like the euro.
The Titanic was fine till it hit something.
The Euro has been crap from the start.
Isn’t the latest theory that the rivets were sub-standard and resulted in weak joints?
Weak joints? They should have tried skunk instead.
You could have built the thing from the finest all-welded duplex stainless steel, and it would still have sunk if you rammed it into that iceberg.
….or Eric Pickles for that matter.
very unlikely to build a ship from stainless steel. please correct.
*Hick what a terrible thing to say about my workmanship *Hick is it Guinness time again yet.
Recovered rivets and steel plate were analysed in a metallurgical lab and found to be ok. Documentary on Discovery on this a couple of years ago.
metal was deemed standard for the time but brittle by todays standards especially at the low temps found in the sea at that time.
The brittleness contributed to the size of the hole
Ice to see you. Ice.
Worrabout Er ic(e) though?
Does he ever do a whale impression?
Has anyone asked them what they are going to do if we take our financial contributions out of the EU as well as our bat and ball ??
Well it was allright when it left here
So the dim Scots MEP thinks that the whole UK financial industry is ‘one square mile’. What a pillock.
I wish it was. It would be easier to gas the bloody lot of ‘em
Ah those old socialist ‘solutions’ always ready to make a comeback. Socialism is a mental illness, seek help.
He’s a dim politician. The fact he is a Scot does not change matters very much, though it does not bode well for the economy in Scotland if these twits ever get their hands on it.
Bloody Jockanese. Living proof that Mancunians copulate with citizens of Barnsley
Nope; they aren’t bl@ck enough.
Fuck off you southern twat you lot can’t even speak English
“up the apples me old cock sparra”
When you think of all those brilliant Scottish merchants who went out into the Empire and made shedloads of money,then you see the dross that is left in Scotland now,you wonder where it all went wrong.Then you remember the gurning face of Captain Ahab McDoom Brown and you realise it was the Labour party who ruined Scotland.Anybody with any gumption has upped sticks and left. What remains is turd.
Quarantine/Independence of Scotchland.
with strict border controls to keep the drunken fuckers out
Got it in one “That Left for the Empire”
You don’t think anyone with a brain went back do you ?
Excellent clip – well, the first 2.5 mins when there is a lion talking. Pity about the bit after, with donkey no 252 whining yet again about wretched Scotland.
To see this lot sink without trace would be the highlight of my otherwise dull and otherwise inconsequential life.
Sorry, overdosing on the otherwise…the second of which is of course superfluous.
The SNP are destroying Scotland. Independence followed by a spending spree that will in ten years turn the country into a complete economic waste land.
Marxism next door, is a powerful lesson.
Of course the MSM will do a Cuba (and try to cover up the dreadful failings).
They have their work cut out.
They do now. They couldn’t even prevent the ClimateGate 2 news from getting out…
Oh and BTW
http://therealcuba.com/Page10.htm
If the EU thinks the Chinese will bail them out in any shape or form is utterly deluded.
They are in the shit at home with the peasants and need to start big time spending domestically or start a massive war with someone to abort a revolution over the suppressed living standards in the mainland.
It’s going to be fun watching the thick Americans who believe they are too big to fail and that good ole Uncle China will never raise interest rates and the equally stupid EU who think they can borrow and sell out to Uncle China when the shit hits the fan wake up to reality when the Chinese finally say: Mhai
The Chinese government has already come under significant public criticism for buying too many US treasury bonds. There is no way they will make that mistake again and buy EU debts on any scale.
The Chinese want assets in return for cash and it looks like the EU will cave on that. Expect utilities to be sold off and highways etc, things that they will extract a huge return on.
Let’s see how the Germans feel about all their state-owned forests being turned into chopsticks.
If the US defaults, who’s going to make them pay, really?
100 million Chinese from the Red Army??
They could always ask the Kinnock’s , they skimmed of a fair few millions
The Kinnock’s what?
They call that gallows humour…
IMO it’s condescension – ‘there he goes again’ – it’s questionable whether they actually understand some of the financial points that he makes.
They believe anyone who criticises them and their ghastly house of cards is a psychiatric case. The arrogance is typical of the totalitarian mind-set. I’d say any indication of amusement is completely fake.
Who was the disgusting toady Scottish MEp? What a prick.
you would think he might want to represent the fishing industry. Oh, forgot, that disappeared when he gave north sea fish stocks away to the common market.
“he”?
I want to punch Guy Verhofstadt’s face in so badly it hurts.
Get in line
all british people do, if I hear him say, if the british say no its a good bill, again i will not be able to stop myself
Never interupt your opponent when he’s making a mistake.
http://www.is-a-Hunt.org/2011/11/guy-verhofstadt.html
What a Twat that scotch MEP is.
It really is time they took their independence from financial handouts from the English taxpayer. But how is signing up to the Eurozone freedom for the Scotch?
You really shouldn’t underestimate how parochial Scottish politics actually is: or how corrupt. There are lots of people in Scotland who think they will be able to pretend to farm haggis andshortbread in return for a subsidy from the CAP.
The way the CAP works they probably will be able to along with Panda ranches and Bagpipe plantations.
I tell you. The Olympic Games will be good for the economy, just ask Greece.
Someone should have a close look at that guy’s personal finances. and lifestyle. Just because he used to run about in circles doesn’t mean he’s straight.
Is a person who is ” a worldwide ambassador for Nike and owns a string of health clubs with a membership of 20,000″ a fit and proper person to be set free with the public purse to run the biggest show in the world?
How come the London Olympics has suddenly become the British game and is gobbling up British taxpayer money like crazy. And as for Dave spending hundreds of millions on the opening ceremony, it is just a total waste of money. A well thought out and presented “austerity” ceremony would not have gone amiss on the world stage.
There is nothing that puts normal people off organised sport more than guys in tracksuits or blazers marching round in circles holding bouquets and preaching diversity. I have never understood why the sporting world goes in for all that crap.
Yes, the Anabolic Steroid Games will be a gigantic bore and a gigantic waste of debt and it will lead to a further debt for our great, great, great, great grandchildren to pay interest on.Meanwhile, in a deserted eu wharehouse, down by the river, of unending debt,
daffy camoron and his boyfriends ruprecht cleggover and that sickening financial dimwit osbought plan even more dastardly treason and even malfeasance. The bastards.
Damn it I was intending not to use that word. I could delete…Ah, ballox.
circenses are always for emperors to grand stand at the expense of the people.
“I have never understood why the sporting world goes in for all that crap.”
Simple. They are stupid.
Are you implying he’s a “javelin catcher,” so to speak?
*Pa DOOM poom!*
He used to roll around on a mat with Billy Hague, which should tell you all you need to know.
People who know him say that he’s a pretty straight kind of goy
In 776 BC is was. along with the concept of Democracy but it’s all been downhill ever since (and I don’t mean the slalom).
How is the gurner at number 6 and why did the Scots elect Larry Grayson as their MEP?
Biggles’ piles still giving him gyp.
Do they do anything else?
Sarkozy seeking re-election as French president.
It’s just a part of his election campaign and trashing Europe to get another term is the least of what he’s prepared to do. Even Sarkozy states that the budget limits will not be enforced – so what’s it all about ?
The treaty’s credibility barely lasted the weekend and Cameron is lambasted for not agreeing to something that was bust before it began. If Cameron is isolated and his veto is valueless, then what’s their gripe ?
Their attitude appears to be that they want unanimity in signing up to their disaster, otherwise Cameron is going to be uniquely positioned to point out their folly. Anyone found any commentator thinking this treaty will work ? Even the signatories are having second thoughts.
I always believed lemmings were cute furry creatures, uniquely stupid in the animal kingdom. It appears that they have a vicious attitude to anyone not wanting to join their leap into oblivion.
How odd. The Scotch MEP is mocking Nigel for wanting independence for the UK at the same time saying he wants independence for Scotchland.
Nothing strange about that. The Scots spent 13 years mocking the English in their own Parliament and passing laws they exempted themselves from up in Edinburgh.
My thoughts entirely ….
But then the Jocks are like the EU – happy to take our cash and try and get one over on us !
…i warned him against that shirt and tie combo.
http://twitter.com/lilcharl23
Time to concentrate on her studies, or whatever it is she does these days
…so she doesnt wish to trade on her newfound celebrity? shame. still, shes not catalouge model material. the only cups she’ll be filling are in working men’s club canteen in the black country.
Only good thing about Scotland?
They have those cute pandas
Cast the sweaty socks adrift !!
here here. i hear there’re simply millions of barrels of crude under melton mowbray and this fracking malarky sounds like a right barrel of laughs. rebuild the wall.
An estimated 300 trillion cubic feet of gas recoverable from shale in Lancashire (not Lanarkshire) to put that in perspective total gas hydrocarbons used in the entire U.K is less than 3 trillion a year.
based on shaky (factual and seismological) science and an environmental impact for it’s entire extraction that makes deepwater horizon look like an amusing water feature…get fracking.
Just because the term fracking has become the next big bogey word, this is not oil extraction, gas is extracted by pumping water down under pressure, and there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Oh yes there is
Those against hydrocarbon extraction should be allowed to live without heating, electricity and powered transport. But shouldn’t be allowed to inflict their hair-shirt nonsense on others.
…what difference does it make what youre extracting if the negative impacts outweigh the benefits? the ONLY country that has stuck with hydraulic fracturing as a means of hydrocarbon extraction is the US, and with questionable results to date. the canadians (yes, they who have jsut reneged on kyoto) are about to ban it. the australians and french have done so already under immense environmental pressure. there really is very little empirical evidence to support its fanciful claims of yields oh, and it destroys water potability. sounds like just what lancashire needs.
Haha. You keep reciting from your little green book. Fracking has been an amazing success story (about the only source of jobs growth in Obama’s wasteland). It scares the Saudis silly.
Maybe it’s because you’re a peak-oil branch of the Malthusian faith and it’s rather strong proof you’re wrong…
Shale gas extraction is a worldwide industry now. Look it up.
Poland is leading the way in Europe…..huge reserves and enormous public support…except for the Pol Pot greenies but they don’t matter when reducing reliance on Russian gas is the big bonus.
The A74(M) heading south is not bad.
Only good thing about England?……Multiculturism,diluting you out of existance?
But we are number one ranked team in test cricket, where are scotland?
they beat canada at mannofield a couple of years ago.
The giant that is Canada in world cricket
We don’t have the weather for Cricket……hard to run in duffelcoats and furry boots.
Ok then, Looking forward to euro 2012?
Ok you win……..skulk,skulk ,skulk
yes billy, because england’s fine record at football tournaments is really something to brag about.
when youve ten times the population, it stands to reason you should have a more reasonable crop of talented footballers to choose from.
@Baw
dont worry i had the champions league and Europa cup still up my sleave
@merlins
How many World cups have Scotland won as opposed to England?
Is it true that Scotland has more Tory MPs than football teams representing it in any capacity in Europe?
A Breath of Fresh Air in a stale chamber isn’t he?
They dont like being called “Scotch” and like it even less when called “scotch” stupid scotch scotchers.
That must be the least offensive name calling I’ve heard yet!…you Engishi,what are you like?
Barroso fiddles while Rome burns.
1) Fa-rage from last guy TV must have hit a million by now
2) what idiots the EU is headed by
3) where were other British MEP’s standing up for Britain in this debate
4) let me get this straight the SNP want to swap a small democratic union for a large undemocratic one
Long Live Nigel, and with any luck if he keeps this up we might get asked what we think, down with the EU
There is ONE British political party. It says so on the tin. All the rest, including UKIP(while they steal) are simply traitors. They are marxist bastards and desperately need treatment. As usual I prescribe tarring, feathering, hanging, drawing and quartering and heads on pikes. Seems reasonable.
I always said I’d vote for Scottish independence and then they stated that as an Englishman I wouldn’t get a vote. Now that had me totally perplexed.
Hasn’t it been said that they want to hook up with Sweden ? – a country that it is reported won’t be able to get treaty ratification through their parliament.
Maybe they don’t get newspapers – or read them.
Anyone resident in Scotland will have a vote….irrespective of race,so please move up,put your name on the voters roll and take part.
Can we not have a referendum in England to eject the Scots from the Union (caused by their previous bankruptcy) into the next Darrien Schemes.
Can we not have a referendum in England to eject the Scots from the Union (caused by their previous b4nkruptcy) into the next Darrien Schemes.
The Darrien scheme would have been very successful if it wasn’t for England and Spain using their military might to stop it.Trade landing on the east coast of America could be transported accross land to the west (and vice versa).Saving 1000′s of miles of sea travel round South America’s dangerous seas….The Panama canal was built on this very site…..The Spanish didn’t want a rival in their American colonies. and the English wanted to force the Scots into a Union to protect a Protestant succession to the throne….the Scots still being pro Stuart…….You English,what are you like?
So most of the colonists dying from various tropical diseases wasn’t a factor then?
Alec Salmond on Sky at the moment, whinging as usual about Cameron. I wish the b@stard would choke on his deep fried Mars bar. Apparently, he thinks the EU is b loody marvellous and is very worried about the poor scotch fishermen. What a scotch pillock.
Thought Nige had just pointed out that the EU takes 80% of the fish from our waters, does Alex want to make it 95%, load of Pollocks.
You are very xenophobic……Chill!
xenophobic ? and you are without a fishing industry so . . . take the skelf outtayour arse en awarrenbyalyaheed
I think you mean away and boil your head……..good attempt at Glasweigian though.
I must confess I always thought that Rab C. Nesbit would have made a grand wee speaker at the united muslims in New York, an ambassador to be proud of.The late Bernard Manning, also, would have been superb.
Mr Farage’s speeches at the EU have been superb throughout 2011,Far superior than anything you hear in our benighted House of Commons.After the expenses scandal you’d have thought our MP’s would have been bending over backwards to court the public they’re elected to serve.But no, all 3 parties are determined to subvert democracy and avoid the referendum on Europe which the vast majority of people want.Anyone who votes for the treacherous Con/Lab/Lib parties in future does so in the full knowledge that they do everything in their power to help themselves not to serve you.
Rubbish. I would make speeches in the Houses of Parliament, but I am almost illiterate so I don’t. When I am supposed to be in Parliament, I say I have urgent business to attend to in Portsmouth and when I am supposed to be in Portsmouth, I say I have urgent business to attand to in the House. The truth of the matter is, that in both cases, I am off somewhere else, shagging, on double expenses.
Amusing that Forage needed the translator’s headphones to understand the intervention from the Scot…
He was talking marxist, which is hard for any rational person outside the faith to understand.
true so true, poor marxists they must be so lonely, which is kind of ironic
LOL. Yes.
Unless he turned the sound off.
A slightly less adversarial Nigel than usual but still talking sense. The EU is very much a busted flush.
I think the maths are interesting. 12 of the 27 EU members have never held referenda on the EU (including UK, natch). Of the remaining 15, 5 (France, Sweden, Denmark, Holland and Ireland) were negative on the EU and some political engineering was employed to ‘put them right’.
These referenda were all held long before the current shenanigans, so it’s not difficult to see why the EU is so afraid of referenda. Kind of reminds me of Westminster MPs’ desperate struggles to prevent the expenses exposure.
Last poll I saw showed German Majority against EU and Merkel is not long from re-election time. Sarkozy faces election in a few months and his major opponent is against current EU position. Czek has always been lukewarm and Sweden takes the latest proposal to it’s parliament. Here in the UK, polling shows a significant majority against EU membership. Indeed, just the Lib Dumbs and a few other fanatics are pro-EU.
Just one brick from the wall …
hurray
Quite possibly, but I’d have my todger up him before you could say “Land of Hope and Buggery”.
O/T but I thought it was very funny
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
This isn’t so much funny as hitting a nerve I think
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/coffeebreak/cartoons/mac.html
Glad to see the McMafia are still as blinkered as ever…..
Watch this Murdering twat Dewani
as soon as he beats extradition
he will make a remarkable recovery
all the experts say he is mental and unfit to stand trial
All these so called experts wouldn’t be Asian by any chance would they ?
Nah. They are an equal opportunity bunch.
I used to give legal advice to doctors about their forensic medical evidence. Apart from the surgeons, the vast majority had to have their reports sent back to them because of conjectural statements not supported by the evidence. Especially so where psychological and psychiatric ossies were concerned. Many were borderline perjurors in cases where they thought they would get a chance to do something for ‘human rights’ ( a concept they rarely understood – it seemed to mean anything politically interesting that made them feel warm and fuzzy).
Is it just me or is this site loading a bit slowly today?
Its you
Fine at my end.
Thanks – glad to hear your end is doing fine
Lol
well bowled sir
Your right it is slowing
Maybe Guido has relocated the server in France or Germany?
Flash update? Often conflicts with OS
What was the reasoning behind the speaker’s statement that we should lose our rebate. Doesn’t that show up how easily the EU adopts an attitude of abusive tyranny. Why not threaten to pollute our rivers ? Do as we tell you or there will be repercussions.
I think we should lose our rebate too, right after we cancel the DD paying in to this Circus of Fools. A rebate is a partial refund of money paid, and those who would cancel it are usually the money guzzling ne’er do wells whose existence depends on the money of others.
Anti EU sentiment is being stoked up in the UK – by the EU. They should look at themselves carefully.
they are idiots though, all they want is some form of united utopia and anything or any country that gets in their way is blamed for all their ills (rating agencies ) or ignored (Ireland ), it doesn’t surprise me they want to take our rebate, the EU hates individuality.
Guido, some while back, 2009 I think, you posted a table showing debt insurance costs, CDSs I guess, for a range of countries and large corporations, indicating amongst other things, that it was significantly cheaper to insure Ronald McDonald’s debt than it was Gordon Brown’s.
An updated version for Sarko/Monti/Miss Piggy debt viz a viz Ronald’s etc, would be greatly appreciated.
Sshh, he’s having a bad day again:
http://twitpic.com/7sqqhx
Those Golden Arches are GILTed*
*OK Gilded.
Did someone call?
It is still cheaper by a long way. For 5 year debt the CDS cost in basis points is 33 for MacDonalds, 101 for UK gilt, 104 for German, 229 for France and (love this) you have to pay 113% to insure Greek five year debt. Best sovereign rates are Switzerland and Sweden (although I guess Norway, which I do not have) would be lower due to its oil fund. You should treat historic data with care as the market was distorted by dodgy behaviour in the past – especially by AIG. Even now a lot of rates are odd. You can insure Avis (which is a shit company going nowhere) for 507 basis points (5%). If I was exposed to them I would regard twice that rate as cheap.
Tristram, thanks for that but that 113 PER CENT for Greek debt – more to insure the debt than the debt itself – is my reading correct?
Sure is!
Should have added – you are insuring lost coupon as well since payout will enable you to reinvest for a return………but it is still a real comment on Greece.
Niggle Farrago speaks his mind, but we are losing the propaganda war here.
The Europhile and Brussels positions are devoid of any stats to support them.
The eurosceptic argument, on the other hand, is pure reason.
Guess what 74.9% of Belgian gdp is:
Ans: EU admin.
Unbelievable.
Why isn’t anyone getting those facts out there???
http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/britain-the-eu-why-the-europhile-position-is-so-devoid-of-numbers/
Moron. The 74.9% refers to the % of Belgian GDP from the services sector which includes all the usual such as tourism, financial services, etc. The latest figure is actually 77.4%. The equivalent for the UK is 77.6% – are you suggesting 77% of the UK economy is EU admin. Grow up, get an education and stop undermining the anti-EU case by repeating fallacies printed elsewhere without checking the facts. If you want to check I simply went to the CIA World Factbook (yes, the CIA do have a use).
Trouble with the Olympics being held here
is half the fucking contestants will disappear
and as for the opening ceremony costing £80,000,000 Remember Dave told us to tighten our belts
now we know why !
The person at the EU reported as calling for the scrapping of the UK rebate is Joseph Daul.
I urge you to go and look at his biography on Wikipedia.
Very illuminating, I’ll say no more.
What rebate would that be?.
Surely he meant a reduction in our budget contribution from £50 Million per day to £10 million…these Europeans might find that if they start down this slippery slope that financially they’ll be worse off as the UK is the second largest net contributor to the EU Budget
When Farage was my fag at Dulwich we knew how to deal with his sort. Always threatening to run to the masters and now risking the best troughing any of us have had since Maggie was handing out the defence contracts (through Mark of course). He’s a bounder.
my boiler is leaking
Two muslim mothers are watching their sons play. One mother says to the other “They blow up so quickly, don’t they?”
One blew himself up in Belgium today…
That must have been a cheap holiday package, why Belgium for gods sake?, Chocolates flying all over the place.
Silly Brugge.
In the Mary Honeyball (Labour MEP) blog she states
After Mr. Daul had spoken, Guy Verhofstadt, Leader of the EuroParl Liberal Group said in English: “Mr. Cameron, if you do not sit at the table you find yourself on the menu.”
The extension to that allusion is that if you don’t sit at the table, you don’t pay any of the bill either.
A threat from a Belgian too – WOW !
Why don’t you jock c u n t z fuck off? If you love the EU you can stay in it and PAY FOR IT fucking ginger haired mongs.
I’m playing with my veto today.
Anyone seen my boson?
I hear that they’ll be marketed soon, to place alongside quarks that proved such a commercial success.
For the lemmings of Europe I have some disappointing news. From Wikipedia
The British government has resisted campaigns to abolish the rebate and the UK has a veto on any decision by the EU to do so.
I’m so smiling.
Someone tell the simple Scot and all the other simpletons who keep saying Cameron only did it to save a few bankers -
Bloomberg Business Week: Sarkozy and Merkel have endorsed a financial-transactions tax that the European Commission says would raise 57 billion euros ($75 billion) a year. U.K. Chancellor George Osborne has called the plan an “attack” on London firms, which his government estimates would pay 80 percent of the tax.
London is the world’s biggest market for interest-rate derivatives, with $1.4 trillion of daily revenue, or 46 percent of the world’s total, according to the Bank for International Settlements. The U.K. is also home to the world’s biggest foreign-exchange market and 251 foreign banks, more than in any other country.
The U.K.’s financial-services industry makes up about 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product and 11 percent of its total tax receipts, according to The City U.K., a lobby group backed by the City of London Corporation, which governs the financial district. Financial-services employ more than 1 million people in the U.K…
Farage is good at this and he’s right about the EU, but who’d want the likes of him governing the 70 million people of these islands?
Not me. I don’t want to be ‘represented’ by anyone. A parliament of 500 people governing millions of people is no better than the EU. A tick in a box once every 5 years is not democracy.
No to the EU, no to the CBI, no to the City of London, no to the state-sanctioned trade unions – no to their minions at Westminster.
The myth perpetuated, even by the BBC, is that Cameron is alone in his attitude to the treaty.
Among many others, this one is more significant than most.
“In an interview to be published in German magazine Der Spiegel, the president of Germany’s federal parliament said he doubted the measures would be considered legal by the country’s constitutional court.”
It represents little more than wishful thinking – minus the thinking.
Just listen to that whinging Scottish prick, pretending he’s in a proper job. To paraphrase the mighty Stanislav, this is from the country that foisted that head-banging, eat his own shit, bark at the moon, scratch himself until he’s bleeding, drugs don’t touch him, lock him up for his own good, son of a bullying religious madman, Gordon Brown. Time to show these malevolent Scotch cnuts what’s what, what?
Farage is indeed a breath of fresh air and nails just what paralyses the EU countries. Hint: tact and diplomacy will not work with these people. It requires straight talking and not Emperor’s New Clothes collusion. These wretches have for too long had none around to tell them.
Being an older fart I have seen this Conman Market turn into a German run Federal EU. I can see nothing in the UK that is any better than it was before it got sucked into a cesspit of nations all trying to get more out than they put in. In particular those that cannot put anything in at all of any value. I think they call them Pigs now. Farage for king is what I say.
“Conservatives take poll lead after Cameron veto”
Not entirely friendless then.
It’s interesting to note that most of the EU politicians telling Cameron what he must do have presided over calamitous financial predicaments in their own countries and have done nothing to solve them. Mr Guy Verhofstadt (ex Prime Minister of Belgium as he proudly boasts) is a case in point. He is a principle UK basher.
This article from late November taints any idea that he might have an opinion worth listening to. It’s entitled “Why Belgium Is A Disaster That’s Getting Worse By The Minute
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-25/markets/30440107_1_elio-di-rupo-interim-government-guarantees
I’m no Cameron fan but it’s astonishing that the BBC repeats the silly headline grabbing comments of EU politicians without any background as to their motives.
I’m glad they see the funny side …. having spent up it’s all they have left.
A Guardian article states that the Lib Dems will be furious that Cameron
Dismissed calls by the IMF that Britain should be prepared to provide greater resources to a euro bailout fund.
I’m fairly livid that he didn’t put in a bid for my reproduction Louis Quatorze faux marble mantelpiece clock but considering both are nothing but tat, perhaps he doesn’t feel inclined to spray the contents of this country’s coffers around like an out of control muck spreader.
Another article states
Miliband says PM must get better deal for UK in Europe
Clearly I’d have a better understanding of the concept if I downed a few bottles of Chablis beforehand. I so wish I could love him. Better than what he would have done if he should ever disclose what that would have been ?
Sometimes we get affirmation that there’s a reason for the existence of the English Channel – and long may it remain.
Christian Noyer, head of the French central bank, thinks that, if any country should lose its AAA rating, it should be the UK.
A Frenchman with his culottes in a twist is always amusing, especially when as head of the French Central Bank his name translates as ‘to drown”.You don’t think such things have a subliminal effect on ratings agencies do you ?
I think we should provide some small amount of money to keep the Euro going a little longer just for comedic purposes alone.