Nigel Farage is on LBC tonight

nicko wrote:How do you know he's a "crank"?  as you so carelessly put it.    Read about him in the papers did you? Perhaps your  lefty friends told you about him. you Yanks know nothing about him . he's Right Wing who cares about what's happening to our "little" country,and because of that you rubbish him. You know fcuk all about us so pull your neck in.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/28/nigel-farage-english-victims-racism-uk-scotland?CMP=share_btn_tw wrote:The worst form of racism in the UK is hatred of the English by people in Scotland, Ukip leader Nigel Farage has said.

He made the claim on a visit to Hartlepool as he was questioned about a survey that suggested 28% of Ukip supporters admit to holding prejudiced views against people of other races.

Farage said he did not want any racists to vote for Ukip, saying that there were other parties to vote for if you hold those views, and he pointed out that he did not allow members whohad formerly belonged to the British National party, English Defence League or Britain First.

Speaking to BBC Radio 5’s John Pienaar, he claimed: “The biggest racism I’ve seen in British politics is happening north of the border with the SNP, where some of the anti-English hatred is reaching a truly astonishing level and I would think that if the BBC are worried about racism that’s where they ought to be looking... T‎he SNP are openly racist. The anti-English hostility and the kind of language that is used about and towards English people is totally extraordinary.”

He may be wedged between a star-turn speech by the former US vice-presidential hopeful, Sarah Palin, and a gathering billed as the National Rifle Association’s “Good Guys Reception”. But when Nigel Farage speaks tonight at a conference of hard-right Republicans he is expected to tell them that unless they reclaim their party they “might have to do a Ukip”.

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is regarded as a calendar highlight for Tea Party, anti-abortion, pro-creationist, and anti-homosexual activists.

In the ironically-named Gaylord National Resort in Maryland, near Washington DC, the Ukip leader has been given a super-star build-up. PR agents promoting the event have described him as a “political tour de force” who has “emerged as a serious and viable candidate who can run England in the near future”.

Ukip’s London office are being careful about what Mr Farage will say in Washington, admitting only that he will give a “personal” speech. However, those organising the CPAC event have given him equal billing among some of their leading figures.

Farage will share the main platform with Palin, the former Alaska governor who remains the darling of the Tea Party wing of the GOP, despite her widely-derided role in serial Republican election failures. The Ukip leader will also appear alongside Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who wants Republicans to “prioritise” ending state-funded healthcare, and Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, who after one of the recent multiple killings in the US, said: “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”

nicko wrote:How do you know he's a "crank"? as you so carelessly put it. Read about him in the papers did you? Perhaps your lefty friends told you about him. you Yanks know nothing about him . he's Right Wing who cares about what's happening to our "little" country,and because of that you rubbish him. You know fcuk all about us so pull your neck in.

Eilzel wrote:Sour grapes lol

Cass wrote:,

nicko wrote:How do you know he's a "crank"?  as you so carelessly put it.    Read about him in the papers did you? Perhaps your  lefty friends told you about him. you Yanks know nothing about him . he's Right Wing who cares about what's happening to our "little" country,and because of that you rubbish him. You know fcuk all about us so pull your neck in.

He wasn't around when I lived there so yes I did my research about him by reading and watching and listening just as I think Ben did. I personally do not like his policies nor what he stands for and I assume that is how Ben feels. I am sure that hes an ok guy if I was to meet him but it seems Ben and I are not alone in disliking what he stands for since he couldn't win in his own constituency.

So no, we wont pull our necks in. People are entitled to their opinions even if you don't like them there is no need to get abusive.