UKIP Leader Resembles Tea Party Leaders as He Rips EU

[pampango]

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/5348-ukip-leader-resembles-tea-party-leaders-as-he-rips-eu

The viral exposure of a video of an anti-European Union speech given earlier this week at European Parliament has some political analysts wondering if England will see the rise of its own Tea Party movement, as much of the sentiments articulated throughout the speech echo the concerns addressed by America’s Tea Parties.

Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party and co-president of Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD), and renowned “euroskeptic,” spoke out against the European Union this week at Parliament for a number of reasons. (Watch video.)

First, Farage criticized those who continue to tout the European Union as good for Europe. He said: “The whole edifice is beginning to crumble, there’s chaos, the money is running out … Just look around the chamber this morning. Look at the fear, look at the anger…. They’re beginning to understand that the game is up, and yet in their desperation to preserve their dream, they want to remove any remaining traces of democracy from the system. And its pretty clear that none of you have learned anything. You are very, very dangerous people indeed. Your obsession with creating this Euro state means that you’re happy to destroy democracy. You appear to be happy that millions and millions of people are unemployed and for them to be poor. Untold millions must suffer so that your Euro dream could continue.”

He also warned that Greece and Ireland were only the beginning, as Portugal and Spain will soon follow, bleeding the well of EU bailout money dry and when that happens, the state of the European economy will likely be unrecoverable. But Farage declares that to be the least of the problems that would arise. “If you rob people of their identity, if you rob them of their democracy, then all they are left with is nationalism and violence. I can only hope and pray that the Euro project is destroyed by the markets before that really happens.”
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"all they are left with is nationalism and violence" - Sounds like a handy excuse for the nationalism and violence used by the far-right in Europe. Apparently potential European tea partiers have no other choice to pursue their political agenda.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party

"The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) (pronounced /ˈjuːkɪp/ YEW-kip) is a political party in the United Kingdom which adheres to an ideology that has been identified as being eurosceptic, populist and conservative. Its primary policy is the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union."

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. More accurate to say that the Tea Party resembles UKIP

UKIP has been around since 1993; it gained its first 3 seats in the European Parliament in 1999, then got 12 in 2004, and 13 in 2009; and is the recipient of protest votes by English people (doesn't really succeed in Scotland or Wales) who are right wing, and don't like other countries or immigrants much, but don't go as far as physically attacking them (unlike BNP supporters).

It's nothing new for Farage to attack the EU; it's his entire reason for continued existence. And really, the speeches of one person are not England's "own Tea Party movement".