The Dog Van Rompuy

Nigel Farage is reminiscent of the Club bore or (as some might unkindly say) of this blog. Even though what he says may be something with which one agrees his manner of declaiming his views, despite his bravery in uttering them, is off key somehow.  There is little wrong with his message but an awful lot wrong in the way he says it.  This is why he does not have a greater following and this is why the Tories will never take UKIP seriously. If Boris became leader of UKIP then Cameron would really have a fight on his hands but unless something dramatic happens Boris is never going to abandon his position in the Tory party. Nor is Boris going to become Tory leader for the very reasons Simon Heffer sets out in his article in the Daily Mail which you can read here. It is a pity that Boris does not seek the UKIP mantle as then the Tory policy on Europe would have to change and we'd get the referendum we deserve which would be a simple In or Out one. The Scots will have an In or Out referendum on independence so why can't we have one too on a question is equally as serious? Concern about Farage's qualities as leader of UKIP does not mean that he should not have all our support in what is an appalling miscarriage of justice by the so called nonentity called the European Parliament. Appalling though not surprising that Farage has been found guilty and fined  by the 'Parliament' €2,990 for being rude about van Rompuy by saying he had the charisma of a 'damp rag'  or a 'low grade bank clerk'. I would say Farage insulted low grade bank clerks by comparing van Rompuy to them although I doubt they can sue for such an insult. Low grade bank clerks have always been most helpful to me whereas I would say van Rompuy is a piece of excrement of the kind that gets stuck to the bottom of one's shoe and proves difficult to dislodge quickly or at all without sticks and paper. This verdict tells us an awful lot about the EU and its pathetic self important little 'Parliament'. Already we know it does not believe in democracy and now we see it does not believe in freedom of speech. Guido has a post on this which you can read here. It is curious though as Guido says that not more has appeared about this case in the UK newspapers. Indeed Guido's post was the first I had heard of it. It is an absolute outrage and one wonders what the European Parliament would do if Farage refuses to pay the fine. Stick him in some prison maybe. We would then need to send a gunboat to that excuse of a country Belgium to rescue him.