Oh dear – poor Nigel Farage, I don’t think
He really irritated me when he spoke in Malta some days ago in that condescending tone: ‘You’ve been members of the European Union for the last 10 years, and how have you benefited?’
The ‘Englishman patronising the former colonial natives’ meme at its worst and most insidious – and some people just lap it up. He even succeeded in annoying compatriots of his who live here. One long-time resident of Malta, Michael Owen, wrote to Times of Malta to point out just how wrong Farage is.
But then what do you expect. Nigel Farage can’t even use a computer. He has never sent or received an email because he doesn’t know how to do so. In his apparently chaotic office (there is an excellent piece about that I read somewhere and now can’t trace), everything has to be printed out for him, even a two-line email, so that he can read it on paper.
How is somebody like that going to appreciate change and evolution in the contemporary world?
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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4117602.ece
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140612/letters/Beware-the-Brit-with-verbal-gifts.523002
This will raise a few eyebrows!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577335/Inside-Ukip-freakshow-Workers-partys-bizarre-HQ.html
And before people start coming up with conspiracy theories, please do note that this is not the first time Farage is involved with questionable dealings regarding funds: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4073470.ece
‘He is virtually computer illiterate
The leader of the UK’s most popular party in the European elections apparently has no idea how to use a computer. Mrs Farage has defended her husband’s decision to pay her £27,000 in taxpayer money to work as his secretary – an arrangement that has now been vetoed by the European Parliament – saying that he is virtually computer illiterate. He has a “steampowered telephone”, she says, and can only send and receive texts. Mrs Farage adds that she works unsocial hours, telling the Telegraph: “I sit at my computer in my nightie and am very dutiful.” ‘
http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/58689/nigel-farage-five-things-we-learned-from-his-wife-kirsten
UKIP Founder Alan Sked, says of Nigel Farage, that behind the cultivated image ” is someone who isn’t bright,”
Sked, recalls trying to give the public school-educated Farage remedial grammar lessons:
“I spent two hours trying to explain to him the difference between ‘it’s’ with an apostrophe and ‘its’ without and he just flounced out the office saying, ‘I just don’t understand words.'”
So there you are!
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/may/26/ukip-founder-alan-sked-party-become-frankensteins-monster
And are we surprised with the results of our EP elections. Yes, we are part of Europe, the general downward trend is what it is at the moment, and we got a similar result.
He is such a hypocrite. His wife is German and his children speak German too.
Everything I dislike about Nigel Farage and UKIP is basically summed up in this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nylBqDwfDrE
Nigel Farage a.k.a. Joseph Cricket (Beppe Grillo in Italian)
i find it strange that a man like Nigel Farage who is adamant that the UK should leave the EU and become independent again is all out against the Scottish wanting independence from the UK. Being so much in favour of independence for his own country, he should applaud others wanting the same for their own. Perhaps only when it suits him
No wonder he and our Labour Party get on so well. Have Cyrus and Dr. Muscat been invited to his office parties yet?
This man has given a face to the most conservative faction of the Tories who has now switched to UKIP. His spirit, in a candid or hidden form, is very much alive amongst the Brits.
Joseph Muscat should be challenged to hold a referendum if Malta is to stay in or out of the EU. We want to know now where he really stands with the EU. He is keeping this trump card close to his chest, but one day he will play the card.
This guy tried to convince the Greeks to drop out of the Euro as some of his mates and backers planned to buy out half its islands at half the price.
Farage himself had suggested the new coin would be devalued to 40% of the Euro following Greece’s exit. Then the ‘investors’ would move in.
The idiot chose Malta’s financial services sector as the example of EU oppression. I mean, does he even know what he’s talking about?
Photographed with members of the IRA when Ireland was holding its referendum, so much for the UK.
Said he wants independence for the UK from Europe, but prefers to ‘destroy’ Europe, taking so much longer, funded by Europe to do so only to end up in another embezzlement scandal.
So much for the IP.
Madoff he looks talks and gesticulates just like Karl Stagno Navarra.
He may be stuck in his ways, overly bombastic most times and loud, but he is one of the very few politicians who asks the tough questions and calls out two faced lying bastards who obviously don’t give two sh**s about us/our land/our freedoms/bettering ourselves.
Whereas Nigel Farage is obviously not a two-faced lying bastard who doesn’t give two shits about our land, freedoms and bettering ourselves.
I follow the European Parliament regularly and that’s the way it looks to me, Mr Baxxter.
He saw fit to employ someone like Kevin Ellul Bonici. What else do you need to know?
A lot actually.
I take you don’t support any other party then since they all employ at least one or two morons
Kevin Ellul Bonici is not a moron, even though he has no class at all. He has plenty of low cunning, and is a prize hypocrite who managed to stay off the black list of public opinion through his connections and his Alex Jones-style writing.
He makes a big show of standing up for what he calls national sovereignty but cares nothing for the fate of Malta as long as he holds his job with Farage.
Nigel Farage is the same sort, which is why they get on so well. The only difference is that Farage actually went to a public school and Ellul Bonici did not.
Its Nigel Farage I was discussing, not Kevin EB. I don’t know him and cannot vouch for him.
Farage is brilliant and thanks to him Malta’s financial service sector will not be destroyed by the Germans and French. A weak EU is beneficial for Malta since all the people in Brussels living off the giant gravy train called the European Parliament will be focused on saving their own skin rather than forcing smaller member states to do their bidding.
Farage, LePen, and Grillo will together stop the massive scam that is the EU from getting stronger and reduce it to what we all signed up for which was a free trade zone and nothing more.
Your thinking on Farage is flawed, and if it’s based on the fact that he cannot send an email! Say no more.
Churchill was drunk every day from 11am and he defeated the Nazi’s against all odds. Farage will do the same to the EU which is looking very similar to the Nazi party in the 1930’s.
[Daphne – If I draw conclusions about you and your attitude towards precision, from your difficulties with the grocer’s apostrophe, will my thinking be flawed in that respect too?]
Malta has been trying to get into financial services since a the 80s. There is only one reason why it rocketed from 2004.
If you knew your history, you’d know that Malta has been in financial services since the 12th century, with just a thirty year interlude during the Mintoff era.
And Farage can’t see the difference. So let’s drink to that.
The Grillini do NOT want to align themselves to Farage, they would have preferred the Greens instead.
It’s just Grillo who found himself in a major difficulty following Renzi’s 40% and settled for a compromise which may destroy the movement.
This is what happens when political parties remain entrenched in positions against.
But I see where you get your anti-EU sentiment, all about frogs, krauts and Farage’s favourite show being Dad’s Army.
Truth is Britain has nothing left to offer except impose her City on global finance.
As for Churchill defeating the Nazis, I suppose 5000 Liberty ships built and launched in one year by US industrial might, packed with weapons, food and supplies and an infinite Russian army don’t count.
Please don’t go all Spitfire and Merlin V12, Rolls begged Packard to build their limousine’s engine under licence.
And do islanders delude themselves.
Do you think Farage is bothered about what banana republicans say?