One stalwart writes about another

Two strong voiced British politicians. Daniel Hannan is a daily blogger at The Telegraph UK and has written a piece on the UKIP's leader Nigel Farage, giving us a peep into what makes one of the two most charismatic British politicians tick. Daniel Hannan himself being the other most popular YouTube favorite.

Just in case, you have not watched Nigel Farage in action, listen to him on FoxNews and judge for yourselves how terribly wrong the idea of EU has gone... they are fast losing their democracy one second at a time.



If Britian ever manages to untangle itself from the suicidial EU, it will be because of the efforts of Nigel Farage and Daniel Hannan.

Politicians always claim not to be politicians, but Nigel Farage has a point.

His memoirs – if that’s the right word for a book published mid-stream – are quite unlike any you’ve read: artless, breathless, occasionally crude, completely plausible and utterly readable.

They describe the transformation of a typical Home Counties boy into the leader of the party that came second at the last European election. When I say “typical Home Counties boy”, I suppose I mean the type often encountered in Betjeman’s verse and in P G Wodehouse’s golfing short stories (Wodehouse was, like Farage, a cricket-obsessed old boy of Dulwich). Nigel’s main interests in life were – and perhaps still are, underneath everything – pubs, golf, women, cricket and fishing. The type is easily satirised; but it has produced its great men, Denis Thatcher foremost among them.

Nigel Farage is Denis Thatcher on speed. On the night he was elected to the European Parliament, the first question from our local TV man, Phil Hornby, was: “So, from now on it’s going to be endless lunches, lavish dinners, champagne receptions: will you be corrupted by the lifestyle?”

“No,” replied Nigel amiably, “I’ve always lived like that”.

This manner isn’t to everyone’s taste; but its authenticity is indubitable. Nigel is equally authentic when, in his book, he sets out to answer the central question of his life. How did an eighteen-year-old with a handicap of six and a job in the City become a full-time anti-EU campaigner? I’ll let him answer in his own words: “I did not enter politics out of philanthropy but rather as an extension of my own annoyance at having inherited freedoms infringed by power-crazed idiots”.....

When did God stop making men like Nigel Farage and why???