Live webchat with UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Thurs 24 Feb, 1-2pm

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Our live webchat guest this week is Nigel Farage. He is the leader of UKIP and has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 1999.

Known for his straight-talking, Nigel has made the headlines with forthright speeches, once telling the EU President he had the charisma of a 'damp rag'.

He is a regular on programmes including BBC Question Time.

If you have a question you'd like to put to Nigel, please join the webchat this Thursday lunchtime, 1pm - 2pm. If you won't be around then, please post your question here.

The commenter above who called him odious/racist just for wanting to leave the EU really needs to get an education.
The EU is undemocratic, costs us millions each year, has a president who is unelected and earns more than Obama and above all undermines us a country, giving us laws we do not want (votes for prisoners being just one example) and means we have no real control over our borders. The sooner we get out of the EU the better.

madamimadam,

There is nocomparison between UKIP and the BNP.

The BNP are largely disaffected Labour voters who live in working class areas. They sit firmly on the far right of the left-right socialists spectrum. They have a lot more in common with mainstream socialists than we do.

As a member of UKIP, I regard myself as a libertarian, pro-gun, pro-Tea Party patriot. And as a Mormon, I hold fairly conservative views about the family and women's rights. My mother shared her maiden name with a famous 19th century American feminist and anti-slavery campaigner - not to be confused with those dreadful modern feminazis.

UKIP are neither extreme left (international socialists) nor far right (national socialists). In fact, there is no where for us on the left-right political spectrum. We are a party of decent, ordinary people.

Hope this answers your question.

UKIP are 'pro-gun'

I actually feel extremely sorry for NF.

Being leader of UKIP must be harder than herding cats.

IME, 'decent, ordinary people' don't shoot each other or refer to each other as 'dreadful modern feminazis'.

snailfig, don't waffle, there's a dear.

Jeez.

Well this had the potential to be interesting until it was invaded by arse lickers UKIP members.

I agree with the suggestion that MNHQ should find a way to stop people registering especially to gatecrash webchats. UKIP members don't need to come here to talk to their own party leader

'dreadful modern feminazis'

You utter nincompoop.

I'm not sure MN is the right forum for you.

MNHQ
Can you delete this thread and start a new one with only members allowed to post if they have been on MN for at least a month?

This is ridiculous. And it is doing Nigel Farage no favours either.

Of course it must stand, though I think it should be locked and the new thread limited to genuine members.

Its the real face of UKIP innit - gatecrashing a parenting website to call the members 'feminazis'.

I'm sure Nigel Farage will be very proud

Please tell me mormonkris is actually Chris Morris?
That post cannot be for real!

Hello Mr Farage

I'd like to ask how well your ?Restoring Britishness: A cultural policy for an independent Britain? policy document will be viewed in Northern Ireland?

Thank you

R

In light of some of the posts above I would like to ask Nigel how he can help dispel the theory some people have that UKIP & the BNP are the same when clearly they are not. I?m guessing there is no easy answer to this though.

I would also like to ask how he thinks voting for yes to AV will help UKIP because I can?t see how it will.

This is just getting embarrassing now.

jonicomelately,

No, I am pro-gun. UKIP is fairly neutral on the subject.

can I ask what pro-gun means exactly?
I have never heard that term before

Perhaps she's in favour of using guns to shoot the dreadful feminazis?

UKIP has nothing to do with the BNP.Some here show a complete lack of understanding politics. The BNP has tried to ingratiate itself to UKIP for years ALWAYS being rebutted. There are many people of colour in UKIP.
The BNP are numbskulls, to my knowledge when found at any conference/meeting have been very firmly shown the door.

Nigel Farage is an honest politician. HE says what he thinks. UNLIKE Nick Clegg and who from my recollection many were swooning over on this site at election time only to be defecated upon when he joined up with lover boy David.

I have not just joined, been posting a long time.

Don't get me wrong about feminism. I'm all for women exercising their right to be mothers and homemakers. My 22-year-old great-grandmother was absent from the 1911 census, which strongly suggests that she was a suffragette. She went on to become a wife, mother, grandmother etc who held her family together despite difficult circumstances.

The modern feminist movement has been taken over by angry socialists who hate men. They bare no resemblance to the feminists of old.

My church has some very good, family friendly policies.

lds.org/library/display/0,4945,161-1-11-1,FF.html

Perhaps you can ask Nigel what kind of common sense, family friendly policies UKIP has.