Nigel Farage
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"Nigel Paul Farage" is a British politician and leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) since 2010, a position he also held from September 2006 to November 2009. Since 1999 he has been a Member of the European Parliament for South East England (European Parliament constituency)/South East England. He co-chairs the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (formerly "Europe of Freedom and Democracy") group.

Farage was a founding member of UKIP, having left the Conservative Party (UK)/Conservative Party in 1992 after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty. Having unsuccessfully campaigned in European Parliament/European and Houses of Parliament/Westminster parliamentary elections for UKIP since 1994, he won a seat as Member of the European Parliament/MEP for South East England (European Parliament constituency)/South East England in the European Parliament election, 1999 (United Kingdom)/1999 European Parliament Election – the first year the regional list system was used – and was re-elected in 2004, 2009, and 2014.

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Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

Cameron has abandoned a large policy area, he's vacated ground on tax and immigration.

Right now the Constitution is mere paper, with no bearing upon the British people, although they might find it good for doorstops, good for real fires and good for fish and chips.

This job is an unpaid job. It costs a fortune to do. You are on call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation.

This just happens to be a fresh attempt to bring in some of the icons of the young and the apolitical and to get them into the whole debate on joining the economic and monetary union.

You are on-call seven days a week and all you get is aggravation. I can't blame anybody in a voluntary capacity walking away.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

This is a one-sided debate, with no opposition voice allowed. It's an absolute.