I suppose I must take some small responsibility for this in that I recruited Nigel Farage to what was then the Anti-Federalist League (which changed its name to UKIP in 1993).
He is actually quite good company and serious, but in a speech in the European Parliament welcoming the visit of the President of the EU, he described Belgium as 'pretty much a non-country' and the President as having 'the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk'.
I wasn't going to report on this since it wasn't one of Nigel's best speeches but I now read he is to be fined nearly €3,000 for being horrid. As he himself says 'Free speech is expensive in Brussels'.
It is a shame Rumpy didn't go to the defamation courts. We could then have heard the fair comment defence as to whether he did indeed have the charisma of a damp rag and the Public Interest Defence, as to whether we should be entitled to know that the President of 500 million people has the appearance of a low grade bank clerk.
But Belgium? Belgium? You can be fined for being rude about Belgium?
I should like to go on record as stating that Belgium is an unnecessary country and that it would be better for it and for Europe if part were reattached to France and the other part to the Netherlands. Its political system has collapsed, with no governemnt being formed after the last election, and it has an inordinately high incidence of paedophilia.
It seems that the recent fatal train crash was caused by one official not understanding the language spoken by another, in a country about as wide as the M4.
I think that Farage was wrong, though, not to mention that the chips are good.
He is actually quite good company and serious, but in a speech in the European Parliament welcoming the visit of the President of the EU, he described Belgium as 'pretty much a non-country' and the President as having 'the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk'.
I wasn't going to report on this since it wasn't one of Nigel's best speeches but I now read he is to be fined nearly €3,000 for being horrid. As he himself says 'Free speech is expensive in Brussels'.
It is a shame Rumpy didn't go to the defamation courts. We could then have heard the fair comment defence as to whether he did indeed have the charisma of a damp rag and the Public Interest Defence, as to whether we should be entitled to know that the President of 500 million people has the appearance of a low grade bank clerk.
But Belgium? Belgium? You can be fined for being rude about Belgium?
I should like to go on record as stating that Belgium is an unnecessary country and that it would be better for it and for Europe if part were reattached to France and the other part to the Netherlands. Its political system has collapsed, with no governemnt being formed after the last election, and it has an inordinately high incidence of paedophilia.
It seems that the recent fatal train crash was caused by one official not understanding the language spoken by another, in a country about as wide as the M4.
I think that Farage was wrong, though, not to mention that the chips are good.
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