Nigel Farage - He Roast's Colleagues - Funny, Yet Sad Videos - I wish the United States had more Politicians Like This...
On June 23rd, 2016, The citizens of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.
It will be very interesting to see how things unfold and whether or not the powers that be will actually allow this to happen. I sure hope it does happen.
A man named Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK independence party, was an outspoken supporter for Britain leaving the European Union. Nigel argued that even though there may be drawbacks of leaving the EU, the benefits outweighed the costs. Nigel's bottom line is that citizens of Britain deserve true democracy and self-governance as a normal country, as opposed to belonging to the EU and having laws generated by unelected beaureaucrats in Brussels. Nigel argued that freedom, independence, and self governance are more important than the short-term economic outlook of the UK (and more).
I very much admire this man, and wish we had more politicians like him in the United States.
I love the way he stands up for what he believes in and shows no shame in insulting political peers who have helped make a mess of things. I will leave the following videos of Nigel in action below for your enjoyment.
Disclaimer: I am quite resentful toward the average politician and I therefore find the following quite amusing.
Please feel free to add additional amusing Nigel videos in the comments section.
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Note: these videos are not in a time-chronological order.
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Perhaps you are unaware, on the outside looking in, but Nigel Farage is one of the most reviled men in the UK today. He made a career out of pretending to be a patriot and 'one of the lads' - swilling beer, making crude racist/xenophobic/homophobic jokes, waving his little flag and generally appealing to the lowest common denominator - whilst representing the ultra right-wing interests of the stinking rich.
In the videos above, he is seen mocking men of great character with long lists of achievements, saying things like "you've never worked a day in your life" (absurd) or "you look like a wet rag" (utterly puerile). He is a source of dire humiliation for the nation as a whole, having only the support of the least informed, least critical thinkers who he has successfully duped with his 'lol, I'm just a loveable cheeky chap who says it like it is' act. And tragically, it is these very people most severely affected by his line of politics.
His politics are 'ultra Tory', the goal being to rape the nation and the poor of their wealth and feed it to the oligarchs to whom he panders for scraps. As such he is a psychopath, and like many psychopaths he is good at lying. (It's easy to lie convincingly when deep down underneath it all you absolutely do not give the tiniest flying fuck about anything or anyone but yourself).
Please do not be fooled, as an outsider looking in. He is not a patriot. He is not a straight-talker. He is scum of a kind that would make even a Tory shudder.
I find your analysis intriguing. Prior to brexit, I had never heard of Farage, but ever since, I have become infatuated with the man. The way he carries himself, the way he speaks directly without care for "political correctness" is a breath of fresh air in the ever more polluted ecosystem of politics that is bogged down by politicians who fear to truly speak their mind. That being said, the more I look into Farage, the more I am reminded that he is a politician. I am starting to get a sense that he may be disingenuous. That he may merely be another politician who found a cord that struck with a wide range of his constituents (in this case it would be national sovereignty) and ran with it. I have yet to decide whether I believe he is genuine or not. But, I'm not sure that I agree with you that being Tory is a bad thing. The majority of his rhetoric is pro-little-man. He appears (at least on the surface) to take the back of his countrymen who are being adversely affected by the European Union. It appears that Farage is fighting to take back control of his country from ever expanding federalism that's being imposed by the European Union.
He 'says' he is pro-little-man, but look at his party's policies. They are in favour of full privatisation of our national health service, ever more tax breaks for the rich and large corporations, the abolition of inheritance tax... Also, I'm not much of a tree hugger, but UKIP's manifesto pledges to pretty much scrap all these 'namby pamby green initiatives' and forge ahead with profitable fracking and giant power plants are pretty much environmental and long term economic suicide.
I could go on. Their policies are right of Tory and designed to enrich the rich, increase inequality, and enslave an ever growing working class. Just read their last election manifesto.
The EU is a wonderful thing (with flaws naturally). Tories don't like it because it limits their ability to dispense with human rights, environmental responsibility, and generally interferes with the business of handing power to corporations. UKIP is politically Tory, but deceptively packaged to appeal to the working class even while working against their interests.
But anyway, as I'm sure you could tell, I was mainly reacting in offense to the promotion of someone I greatly dislike and disagree with. Well done for keeping it civil despite my prickly tone :-)
I completely agree with you; I wish we had politicians in the American legal system like Nigel Farage. He is a fantastic orataor and extremely quick-witted.
The best one was when Farage was forced to apologize to Rompuy for saying he looked like a bank clerk. He stood up and with a straight face apologized to bank clerks the world over.
Thank god Britain got out before they create a super-state
Fortunately, we're not out. Not by a long shot. All that happened was a referendum in which a sufficiently large enough number of people were successfully duped into saying they wanted out. The majority of these were persuaded by outright, undisputed lies such as "If you vote out, we will spend £350million/week extra on the NHS" and "If you vote out, there will be less immigration." Outright lies, that the leave campaigners fully admitted were lies the day after the referendum.
And that's all it is, a vote of people saying they want out. It has no bearing on actual policy. We might leave, we might not, but nothing has happened yet and may well never do so.