Since there isn't a British politics forum on here (appointed, home)
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I have to comment here that I really like Nigel Farage. I'm sure most Brits think he's a libertarian nut job who acts like a 5 year old, but I think he's brilliant and he's pretty darn accurate about most things. Great speaker and funny as well.
I have to comment here that I really like Nigel Farage. I'm sure most Brits think he's a libertarian nut job who acts like a 5 year old, but I think he's brilliant and he's pretty darn accurate about most things. Great speaker and funny as well.
I think he's a bit of an old-fashioned right-wing crackpot but I do like and respect people who speak their mind regardless of how popular it will be. Politics would be more boring without him.
People that, in the UK, are viewed as right wing crackpots are viewed in the US as mainstream conservatives.
People that, in the UK, are viewed as left of centre but mainstream politicians, are viewed in the US as dangerous communists.
I think that many in the US view the EU as a threat to their dominant economic and political position in the world and the single currency as a threat to the dominant role of the dollar. Most Europeans, on the other hand, seem to be pretty comfortable with the EU.
The biggest problem the UK has with the EU is that the people don't take it seriously, least of all when it comes to elections. Sending UKIP to represent you is the stupidest decision ever made. Having your interests represented by a party that has only one agenda, to cause as much disruption as possible and impede the process of running the EU as much as possible is a really bad idea. UKIP incidentally means 'you chicken' in Dutch, one of the three official languages in Brussels.
The UK is in the EU and that isn't going to change. The sooner people came to terms with that and started thinking about how to turn membership to their advantage, the better. Electing better representation would be a good start.
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