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Isn’t UKIP leader Nigel Farage supposed to love the pound?
He must do because he decided to use it as the logo for his party:
So why – during his jaunt to the US last year – has Nigel been having cosy dinners and generally hanging out (as our American cousins would say) with a man who not only once but twice tried to trash the pound – once calling sterling a “basket case” – in order to further his personal investments.
Here’s a recent picture of Farage with some of his US pals:
The man on the far left (!) is Ron Paul (a man who is so right-wing he’s known in the US as the Godfather of the Tea Party). But even more interestingly the man second on the right with the pink top is billionaire investor James Beeland Rogers, Jr. – co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund.
The Quantum Fund became famous in 1992 for supposedly “breaking” the Bank of England and Rogers and Soros reportedly made billions by betting against Sterling, eventually forcing the devaluation of the pound.
Rogers also tried the same trick in 2010 (but failed) by publicly calling the pound ‘ a basket case’ of world currencies – hoping the subsequent run on Sterling would again make him billions.
Amazingly, it’s been reported in the US that pound-loving Farage has been seen having dinner with pound-trashing Rogers and Paul.
Call me old-fashioned – but I would have thought someone who loved the pound as much as Farage would avoid socialising with people who regularly go out of their way to trash his beloved Sterling for personal gain.
But there again, maybe Farage doesn’t love the pound quite as much as he loves furthering his own political career?
What do you think?
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A very big thanks to Lorraine Chaplin for the heads up on this.
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I think it is just another extreme left wing attempt to make a mountain out of a molehill. Cameron Clegg and Milliband all talk to Putin, and the heads of state of China and Korea, does that make them all ex kgb agents with strong left wing views or just people who talk to others around the world. Another smear attempt.
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I can’t see a good reason to vote for a man who claims to be a politician and yet WON’T stand for election as an MP. Simple as that.
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Reblogged this on sdbast.
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Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
Ah, Rogers and Paul – didn’t they write some great musicals?
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Thats a different matter all together. Meeting up with world leaders are necessary ,less personal and justified meetings. What purpose does Farage have meeting up with these corrupt business men?
The photo of Farage is also clearly very personal and friendly. Not a faked smile you often see between world leaders such as Obama and Putin, but clearly very real.The photo is also not taken by press but what appears to be a crappy phone camera assumably by another friend.
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Don’t care about Farage and would never vote UKIP but he probably likes the guys who trashed the pound because that was the nail in the coffin of the UK being part of the ERM and thus the Euro … Ron Paul says some interesting things for a US politician and I wouldn’t call him an extreme GOP figure?
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Not sure whether Farridge really does love the pound, or just says that to get it into bed.
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Everything about, around and with Farage stinks – end of!
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Does he eat a lot of beans?
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I’d be more interested in whether – and how – Farage was trading Sterling futures in 2010.
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Nonetheless, I will agree with you in your sentiment that our current politicians are corrupt. But i think the point the author is trying to make is that despite what many people in Britain think Nigel Farage is definitely no exception. And the mans a huge hypocrite
He claims to be in favour of the pound but poses with people who have to devalued it.
He claims to be against expense claiming but has claimed huge expenses himself.
He claims to give ‘britain its voice back’ and then sends police over to the houses of people practicing free speech against his party.
He claims not to be a racist party but we have seen a huge amount of racism come from the party over the last couple of months
He claims 26 million Europeans are after our jobs whilst he marries and employs a german. Then his party employs latvians to hand out flyers.
It seems the majority of people are voting for UKIP out of frustration for the current political situation, but they are completely unaware that they are voting for someone much more dreadful than our current politicians
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Mike’s reblogged this over at Vox Political, and it’s well worth reblogging as it shows the hypocrisy and essential hollowness of Farage’s claim to be standing up for our currency, economy and national sovereignty. I can remember when Soros and Rogers comprehensively wrecked our economy during John Major’s stay at No. 10. The result was Black Wednesday. Major was forced, if I remember rightly, to do something similar to Gordon Brown when he was forced to escalate the national debt simply to keep international capitalism for melting down. That was, of course, due to Lehman brothers, the toxic vampire squid, and the other Wall Street Banks. I can remember at the time a friend of mine reassuring me that thing’s weren’t going to be too bad, as there was still food in the shops for a fortnight, which would give the country a little time before the rioting and starvation started. There were also reports of financial executives committing suicide by leaping to their deaths. This made its way into the cartoon titles of that season’s Have I Got News For You. So if we are to condemn Gordon Brown for wrecking the economy over something he had no control over, we should also condemn Nigel Farage for his friendship with those, who were also responsible for something similar twenty years ago. As for Ron Paul and the Tea Party, they are notoriously Right-wing and ‘Libertarian’, so they are naturally attractive to Farage, who is another extremely Right-wing financier.
I also suspect from this that Farage would like us to develop closer links with America. Way back in the 1990s and noughties the Republicans repeatedly suggested that Britain should leave the EU and join NAFTA with Canada and Mexico. This is the North American Free Trade Association, membership of which also managed to contribute to wrecking Mexico’s economy as jobs were lost as American companies managed to gain access to Mexican markets, something they hadn’t been able to do before. It looks like Farage would very, very much like to do the same to Britain. He ain’t a patriot, just another willing accomplice of American multinational capitalism wishing to trash this country for a few bucks from his paymasters.
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Is that Peter Schiff in the middle?
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Oh yeah and Jim Rogers … they are not stupid people and dare I say I like their economics if not their politics.
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Reblogged this on seachranaidhe1.
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Hi Tom, on the BNP site right hand column, NG twitter page has a story regarding ukraps small business guru being raided by immigration control??
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Yes – it looks like Schiff. He’s close to Ron Paul so no surprise.
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Carl – do you mean this story: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27437973
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That’s the one Tom, I only caught the headline at a glance. Farage and his ukrap cronies will sell their arses at any price
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i loved pounds ands eros lotts of them.
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An interesting comment appeared on the Observer’s Cif Cartoon thread last night;
Inverness 211 asserted;
“No…. he made more than a couple of millions, hence the reason for using the off-shore account. Additionally, he was very much part of the stock-broking establishment. Don’t let him fool you. He is not as educated as you may think. When most of us read at University, he left and joined Drexel Burnham (courtesy of his drink father ) and made a killing. That is when they used to refer to traders as yuppies. I was a young in-house counsel at DB at the time. Farage is full of hot air, with no real education, he has nothing to fall back on. Most of his companies went BK, he is just a failure.”
http://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/35797843
Does this shed some light on the early career of Nige?
“He chose instead to work in the City and trade commodities beginning with Drexel Burnham Lambert before moving to Credit Lyonnais Rouse in 1986. Eight years later he joined Refco before Natexis Metals in 2003.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-profile-nine-things-3341200
Drexel Burnham have been described a ‘junk bond kings’
Is Nigel organising another ‘float’ ?
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