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Nigel Farage, leader of British political party UKIP is nothing if not outspoken and he describes governments who have bought gold as clever and those who sold it ‘idiots’.
by Lawrence Williams
Mine Web
LONDON (Mineweb) – Eric King’s King World News has become a significant mouthpiece for the U.S. political right and for those who preach monetary orthodoxy including a positive role for gold. With his recent interview with UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage he not only found an ideal participant, but one whose comments made for some very quotable headlines which will have pleased his audience well.
For the record, UKIP has just been ranked in a recent poll as the UK’s third most popular political party – after Labour and the Conservatives, knocking the Liberal Democrats into 4th – although as yet it has no elected Member of the British House of Commons. Farage himself, along with some of his UKIP colleagues are Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) the party having done better in European elections than in domestic ones with 12 of the UK’s 73 seats in Strasbourg. Despite their MEP position, Farage and his party are against European Community membership for the UK – hence the party’s current popularity given a sceptical British public regarding the EEC in general, exacerbated by the huge Eurozone problems currently being experienced by most of those countries participating in the common currency (the Euro).
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2012-12-17 07:41:49