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.

Mr Farage,

What do you think you can do to distance your party from the perceived 'common ground' it has with extremist parties like the BNP ?

im going to apply for a Libyan birth certificate
think there MIght be a job coming up there

nice tent, uniform etc

you certainly have the tashe for it

The American born thing is strange.

Wonder if those opposed to it would have supported Schwarzenegger for President.

and the reported required level of flatulence

arf

I"ve had a look at the UKIP manifesto and it just seems like a watered down version of the BNP one, which has a very detailed view on us all carrying arms.

Cod, if you take up the post in Libya you're going to have to dye your face to match your hat and capey thing (which I know you already own).

So Mormon

leaving aside any talk of Mr Obama directly as I sense you wouldn;t ever agree with me there,

would you be happy with a different black, male, democrat President of the USA? If his birth within UK boundaries was a matter of clear record? Particularly one with Muslim family?

As an aside do you accept Obama is not Muslim; I know many Americans do not. Which is odd; I don't think Islam takes too well to it's adherents standing up and publicly denying membership and claiming to be Christian but anyway I doubt many American non-Muslims have read a Qur'an.......

MmeLindt,

"Wonder if those opposed to it would have supported Schwarzenegger for President."

No, absolutely not. Arnie is even worse than Obama. He has a very dubious past.

www.arnoldexposed.com/

I think the only man suitable for the job at the moment is Ron Paul.

Is Ron paul an adult film star?
he sounds like it.

Question to Mr Farage: Can you please list your 3 greatest achievements so far in your work as an MEP, and indicate those concrete goals you intend to fulfil in the name of your constituents by the end of your MEP mandate in 2014?

Oh blimey. I have missed all the fun of the fair.

@ eice - the votes for prisoners thing is not an EU policy - it is part of the ECHR (European Commission of Human Rights) - nowt to do with EU. Switzerland (non-EU) is a signatory.

I know it must be very hard and brain hurting to work out that not everything starting with the vowels EU is related to the European Union.

ScramVonChubby,

I would be delighted if a one legged, black, lesbian Muslim (if that's not too much of a contradiction) woman was elected as president of the United States, so long as she adhered to the US Constitution and didn't try to crush free speech and remove the 2nd amendment. Likewise, I would be happy for a black man or woman to lead UKIP at some point in the future.

FYI, I'm mixed race, just like Obama!

I think Muslims are great people. In fact, Muslims like Mormons because we share similar values. That's why Muslims are happy to send their children to BYU.

I know what the BNP are about. There is only one thing they despise more than blacks and Asians - that's people like me.

You're thinking of Ron Jeremy, iCod. I don't blame you.

I'd quite like to know how you can have somebody caught out in such blatant lies as the deputy leader of your party?

I refer of course to the lamentable Christopher Monckton 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

quote:

?I am a member of the House of Lords, though without the right to sit or vote, and I have never suggested otherwise.?

Erm, no he isn't the House of Lords confirmed that Christopher Monckton is not and has never been a Member of the House of Lords. There is no such thing as a non-voting or honorary member.

I think the integrity of your party is at best doubtful.

Oh and don't go saying other parties lie or they started lying first. S/he started first/are doing it only works if you are 3!

BTW this was just the first lie I thought of I have others if you'd like to refute them.

LookingForwardToTheBunfightTiggaxx

Has there been any response from Mr Farage anywhere ?

' one legged, black, lesbian Muslim (if that's not too much of a contradiction'

[why would that be a contradiction? statistically unlikely, perhaps)

I agree that Muslims, Mormons and generally Christioans (and probably athrists too!) sahre similar values: I think most people do tbh, but I certainly know a few racist Mormons myself, in the UK. A few racists from all faiths and pathways in fact.

So why be so anti Obama?

Is it his Democrat beliefs?

if it comes down to a birth dcertificate- what honestly is the point of that? A piece of paper. What you think or not, it's fairly meaningless tbh.

To me anyway.

And the BNP yes I would agree with you there: they probably would hate you, although they'd be unlikely to have the guts to admit it. saying that, I have disabled kids so they are not too chuffed with me either. Not that I care immensely.

'I think Muslims are great people'

Oops I was supposed to be ing this thread

Me too MrsDV with the hobnobs.... - BTW owe you soem ASD powerpoints don;t I? sorry been useless. And some info), I remember doing but didn;t send: harass me, I ahve a twomminute attention span ATM)

Some Muslims are great people; some are prats. Same as every oteghr grouping that exists. And even then most of us are wonderful sometimes, complete idiots at others. I am.

Consider yourself harrassed.

Mr Farage, how do you propose to go about promoting 'one culture for all' and who decides what that culture will be?

Not even going into the Welsh/Scottish/Irish debate, there isn't even a monoculture in England - will it be the culture of the 'right people' MormonKris has mentioned (who StewieGriffinsMum doesn't mix with )? And where would that leave people like me who are British-born but from another cultural background?

If we're chatting to parties without parliamentary seats, when are we getting the Monster Raving Looneys in? I'd like to chat with Lord Toby Jug I like this policy of theirs:

Hypocrites
It is proposed that all politicians be made to swear a "hippocratic oath", preventing them by law from being Hypocrites. All politicians should be made to stand by their policies, or or at least admit that they were wrong.

A UKIP member on Twitter has asserted that some "UKIP members" on this thread are actually people trying to make UKIP look bad.

Nigel Farage, Godfrey Bloom and Viscount Monckton are definitely the prime suspects in a Poirot mystery.

A serious question then Mr Farage:

How do you expect your party to appeal to women ('us' mums tend to be women btw) when the former UKIP member and MEP Nikki Sinclaire won a sexual discrimination case against her former colleagues in the party in December 2010?

You expelled her from UKIP for her refusal to sit with the EDF group in the EU Parliament that UKIP has allied itself with, that has amongst its members MEPs representing extremist views. When Mike Nattrass MEP also left the EDF grouping, he did not have the UKIP whip removed - despite him branding you 'a spiv' and 'a control freak'. Why was this because he's male?
How do you defend the indefensible this standpoint?

Only 8% of UKIP MEPS are female- not exactly representative. None are from BME backgrounds either. And presumably (now) none are LBGT. As a Dulwich College alumnus, you are yet another public schoolboy trying to tell us how to think vote.

Oh, and if there's time... please tell us how you defend Godfrey Bloom MEP heckling the German MEP Martin Schulz with the words "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" last November, pretty please?"