big\_dave wrote:Although I'm proEurope on almost everything, the major downer here could be that leftist anti-EU arguments are going to be completely drowned out, and they really should be on the table at all times.Which isn't helped by the BBC and others characterising Syriza, a left party that achieved a genuine breakthrough at all levels of Greek society, as an anti-EU party. Which is complete guff.I do think UKIP's anti-politics has the shelf-life of Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement in Italy.

Has everyone just simply forgotten when Jimmy Goldsmith was the face of the party and he used appear on TV broadcasts from his mansion, whilst surrounded by mahogany paneling and big-game trophies? All of a sudden, Farage is an everyman.

There's a letter from Farage's Dulwich teacher floating around online, objecting to him becoming a school prefect after being caught singing Hitler Youth songs with other boys; claiming that nothing good can come from promoting this natural fascist. Worth looking up. Funny comment from an Italian friend on FB:United States of Europe or barbarism. The UK has chosen “ and as an amateur medievalist, I am glad to be here now.i really wonder what kind of future UKIP voters believe awaits an isolated, small island with no natural resources within an unstable globalised world...

NewDarkAge wrote:Not my sort of bukkake party, but thanks.

Another funny friend said this on twitter: Imagine thinking your culture, whatever it is, is so weak that it's threatened by a few Romanian guys working at Pret

big\_dave wrote:You have monarchists, libertarians, fascists, reactionaries, aristocrats, liberals all united just because they like the proms and hate the blacks. It's such a thin veneer of ideological unity.When people call for a UKIP of the left, they seem to forget RESPECT.

The long and the short of it is that the fascists and ultra-right do well in EU elections as a result of 'fortress Europe' being a racist entity. The broadening and deepening of free markets and free-movement of labour has alienated its own populations, whilst at the same time the neoliberal mainstream in the EU core is backing far-right elements and fascists in Ukraine. The politics the EU visits on its neighbours on the periphery is coming home.

Farage comes to functions, matches, etc. at DC and gives talks here quite often. Yesterday at the pub my friend Nik was thinking of all the chances we've had to assassinate him. Nik is Russian, so you never know to what extent he's joking.

Here is everyman Nigel Farage at a golf club dinner with the captain of the Eton Group public school he went to:I despise everyone in this photograph.

I can tell you first hand that, yes, those people are as awful as you think.