Why Nigel Farage Is Rejoining Frontline Politics

[naomi24]

https://news.sky.com/video/its-time-to-restart-the-brexit-campaign-11475674

I'm looking forward to this. There's a man who tells it like it is!

[Kromovaracun]

Well, Zacs was asking how it affected you personally. My questiom is even more basic - which EU laws you consider bad or unjust which you are looking forward to being liberated from.

If the answer is 'none really' then the hand of Brussels can't be all that heavy, can it?

[hereIam]

The hand of Brussels is FAR to heavy and we should not be dominated by it at all ...

[Khandro]

Kromo; You really do have your head firmly in the sand; I needn't mention any more that British fishing rights (unless this devious stupid woman makes a complete mess of even that).
But then there are many others such as laws governing the power of light bulbs and vacuum cleaners, or household recycling, which threatens to litter the streets with bins – to industry wide rules that do damage to the economy. Consider the restrictive Working Time Directive, which has been a source of complaint among surgeons and medical staff. Or the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, which requires the UK to generate 15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020 – the cost of which is passed on to the consumer through their bills.
Then there is the endless flow of East European illiterates and their like, flooding in over the UK's porous borders, all of which you are obviously quite sanguine. Well many are, with good reason - not!

[jourdain2]

I'm looking forward to having him back, too. One law to which I object is limiting the power of kettles, vacs etc. All that that will do is make it longer to boil the kettle (using the same power) and ditto vacs. - except that they won't clean as well. That's a simple example.

[Canary42]

According to the Times, Nigel Farage got £89,000 a year for being an MEP. His attendance record was 748th out of 751 MEPs. Now he will get a generous pension. Far from being "A man of the people", "anti establishment" etc..this man is a parasite, taking money from hard working taxpayers all over Europe. That includes the ordinary British people he claims to represent. He could have spent all that time fighting for a better deal in EU. He instead chose to live off the backs of Europeans while fighting on the sidelines to bring down the body that protects out human rights, workers rights, health and safety etc.

[cassa333]

And Jeremy Corbyn is a man of the people on a hefty tax payer salary and in line for a very nice big tax payer funded pension. So what’s your point then Canary?

[New Judge]

"My questiom is even more basic - which EU laws you consider bad or unjust which you are looking forward to being liberated from."

I don't know how many times this has to be said:the quality of EU laws, whether good or bad is not the issue. Some are good, some are bad, some are just ridiculous. None of that matters. It is the fact that a supranational organisation which is made up of principally foreign civil servants and which exhibits an enormous "democratic deficit" has the power to impose laws on UK citizens. Nobody outside the UK Parliament should have the power to do so.

[Jackdaw33]

^^ Dicey himself couldn't have put it better.

[Khandro]

Canary; /According to the Times, Nigel Farage got £89,000 a year for being an MEP. His attendance record was 748th out of 751 MEPs. Now he will get a generous pension. Far from being "A man of the people", "anti establishment" etc..this man is a parasite, //

Just a touch of envy there? It isn't Farage's fault that they pay themselves such inflated salaries is it? He is a democratically elected MEP, and that's what they get! If that was his sole interest he would keep stumm and carry on for the duration like the rest of them.
He has before, described himself as, "a turkey voting for Christmas".
His attendance record reflects his disdain for the whole irrelevant self-serving institution.

[New Judge]

As well as that he probably realises more than most that an MEP is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. The European Parliament is the EU's "lip service" to democracy designed to give the gullible the impression that they have some kind of control over the European Commission and all its machinery.

[Kromovaracun]

I can understand objecting to the EU's ability to make law in principle (I don't personally agree, but that's slightly unrelated). I just think it's a bit melodramatic to call Brussels "heavy-handed" as people were doing earlier in the thread if the worst laws we can think of are the working time directive (which seems quite reasonable to me) and regulations on lightbulbs and vacuum cleaners.

[naomi24]

Canary, //He could have spent all that time fighting for a better deal in EU. //

Why would he do that? He wants out.

[emmie]

lets hope he has some success at getting these negotiations moving, he has my vote every time.
let him speak and i for one will be listening.