Nigel Farage Makes Points Folks Don't Want To Hear At The EU !

Diplomacy at gunpoint

by Constantine Callaghan 2 Feb 2012

British MEP Nigel Farage holds a Union Jack during a debate at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (Reuters) British Eurosceptic MEP Nigel Farage stormed out of a European Parliament session on Wednesday night after his speech was interrupted by the German chairman.   The rightwing UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader was cut off when he compared the leaked German plan for Greece’s finances to be managed by Brussels to being like the Second World War Nazi occupation of the country.   Farage said the plan would see “a European commissioner and his staff occupy a big building in Athens and take over the running of the country”.   This commissioner would be nothing more than a "Gauleiter", he added, referring to the regional Nazi party leaders of the Third Reich.   The comparison sparked outrage among German MEPs. A German Green Party lawmaker, Reinhard Buetikofer, accused Farage of spreading “hatred between European peoples”.   “Greece is not a failing subsidiary company where head office needs to come in and take control," Farage also said. "Greece is a nation with a soul, a nation with pride, with history."   He then turned his attentions to the Belgian head of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, accusing him of being responsible for the “misery in these countries”, referring to the so-called PIIGS countries, Portugal, Ireland, Italy Greece and Spain.