Posted on 03/02/2010 12:51:59 PM PST by ScaniaBoy
Ukip's European leader Nigel Farage has been fined £2,700 after refusing to say sorry for a colourful outburst against the new European president.
Mr Farage used Herman Van Rompuy's maiden speech to the European Parliament last week to describe him as having the "charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk".
He was summoned in by EU officials to explain his comments but said his only apology would be to bank clerks.
Yves Leterme, Belgium's Prime Minister, has demanded a public apology for the "slander" and Mr Farage's added "insult" that Mr Van Rompuy was a "quiet assassin" hostile to the sovereignty of nation states because he came from the "non-country" of Belgium.
Mr Farage was called to the office of Jerzy Buzek, the President of the European Parliament, and told to publicly apologise to Mr Van Rompuy and Belgium "or else".
"I said he had the charisma of a damp rag and I challenge you to find anyone who would say any different to that," he said, "The only people I am going to apologise to are bank clerks the world over. If I have offended them I am very sorry indeed."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Nigel Farage harangues EU President Herman van Rompuy
Here is some background on the "damp rag" who certainly aim to be the assassin of our national democracies:
(An important paragraph from a long article:
Herman became the Speaker of the Parliament. In this position he had to prevent Parliament, and the Flemish representatives there, from voting a bill to split BHV. He succeeded in this, by using all kinds of tricks. One day he even had the locks of the plenary meeting room changed so that Parliament could not convene to vote on the issue. On another occasion, he did not show up in his office for a whole week to avoid opening a letter demanding him to table the matter. His tactics worked.
Some democrat!)
Finally, Yves Leterme, the Belgian PM, who felt his country had been insulted, is the man who thinks the French national anthem is the anthem of Belgium:
Belgian leader makes anthem gaffe
Go figure!
BS. There is no immunity for EU Parliamentarians?
Watching him tear into that EU Apparatchik who could only sit there was priceless!
At least he didn’t say his mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries
Or he’d have to apologize to hamsters, too
He was fined??
For hurting the widdle feelings of the unelected diktater?
It was a fabulous speech, I was in Paris that day, watched it on French TV, died of laughter. All the French talking heads were in shock...
The goal is 27 unelected regional districts to impose EU ‘law’.
The UK is now a province of a dying empire.
lol.
It was wonderful then.
Fines for words.
Well, at least he didn’t call him a retard!
Oh, there is. If a MEP or a Commisar, eh. sorry, Commissioner, insults an ordinary civilian, or breaks a national law in a country belonging to the EU, or if he or she has taken bribes and are being investigated by a reporter, yes, then they certainly are protected. But a representative of the people insulting his highness the president....absolutely not!
God I love watching British politics. He didn’t use a single curse and yet he managed to tear the guy up so many ways its a wonder they didn’t have to carry him out in a garbage bag. Why can’t we have him in our government?
immunity is only for the unelected apparatchicks.
Satire? Please tell me this isn’t real,,,that EU cannot actually fine a guy for free speech,,,
Nigel Farage reprimanded for criticising new EU president & foreign minister
Free speech does not have a strong standing in the European "parliament".
(Note music and voice over at end of the video.)
Ping!
Belgium's Prime Minister, has demanded a public apology for the "slander"
I'm simply stunned that this isn't satire! Are you sure this isn't an SNL or a Monty Python skit?
Yes, at the momment this is Monty Pythonesque, but it could just as well turn really ugly. We now has an establishment who with utter abandon tramples our freedoms and democratic rights under their feet. Luckily, so far, they are more like the inbred nobility of l'Ancien Régime than the dictators of the last century. But it is imperative that we remove them ASAP before we see a change for the worse.
...told to publicly apologise to Mr Van Rompuy and Belgium “or else”.
Or else ...
What?
This guy has a fine turn of phrase. We need a couple of dozen of his ilk in Congress.
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