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He used to work in PR.

No further comment is necessary.


Posted by Johnathan Pearce at November 3, 2009 03:33 PM

He still does.


Posted by Sam Duncan at November 3, 2009 04:29 PM

Work in, or was employed in?


Posted by MarkE at November 3, 2009 04:51 PM

I wasn't going to vote for the slippery bastard even if he had kept his promise.

Time to leave. Vote UKIP.


Posted by RAB at November 3, 2009 06:07 PM

A brief word of caution. I heard Nigel Farage speak recently and, well, Quantitative Easing, deficit spending in a recession, fiscal stimulus, slashing interest rates, you name it he's in favour of it. In fact, he even argues that were we in the Euro we would be forced to follow the (relatively sane) policies of German central bankers and that would be a bad thing!

Don't get me wrong, I'll still vote UKIP, but it does seem that the Tories are actually slightly less terrible on what is, after all, the most important issue of the day. What it really illustrated to me is that if UKIP are our loopy far out right-wing alternative, we really are f**ked.


Posted by Gabriel at November 3, 2009 11:02 PM

Good point Gabriel.

Britain lacks the "saving reminant" that America has.

In America most of the media and universities are shit - here they all are (Buckingham is not - but it is too small to have much of an impact).

There is little chance of a businessman and politician like Mr Farage getting a decent education (where from?) or even seeing or hearing media shows with Austrian School economists on.

No such shows exist on British radio (state or private) or television.

America is a dying country - the resistance there may be doomed, but there is resistance.

I fear that Britain is not a dying country - that it is, in fact, a dead country.


Posted by Paul Marks at November 4, 2009 07:35 PM
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