Briton Nigel Farage resigns as UKIP leader

This April 2015 music video from Britain is called RAP BATTLE: DAVID CAMERON VS NIGEL FARAGE (PARODY/SPOOF).

After the downfall of British Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron … and Conservative wannabe Prime Minister Boris Johnson … and of Blairite Hilary Benn … now this.

From Left Foot Forward in Britain today:

Nigel Farage resigns – but will keep taking £76,000 from the taxpayer

UKIP leader says he’s no career politician. So why stay on as an MEP?

by Adam Barnett

‘I have never been, and I have never wanted to be, a career politician.’

So said Nigel Farage this morning as he resigned as leader of the UKIP. As with everything Farage says, it bears a little scrutiny.

For one thing, he’s been an MEP since 1999, after becoming UKIP party chairman the year before. Seventeen-plus years in post looks a lot like a career to most people.

But there’s more. Farage said he and other Ukippers will stay on as members of the European Parliament until Britain formally leaves the EU, which he says could be around two years.

In other words, he intends to keep picking up the juicy salary of being in a job he doesn’t think should exist, for a party he no longer wants to lead, having essentially given up on full-time politics.

That salary amounts to at least £76,000 – nearly three times the UK average – plus around £40,000 in expenses.

Some ‘man of the people‘!

Meanwhile, Farage has the second worst voting attendance of any MEP, turning up for only 40 per cent of votes on the EU laws he claims to oppose.

So he picks up the check, but skips out the work.

Has there ever been a more hypocritical political figure in British public life?

There have been, and are, many hypocrites in British politics. Farage is definitely one of the worst. Still, I’d say, Tony Blair beats him. With his lies on non-existing WMDs in Iraq; and on the non-existent Iraq-9/11 atrocity connection. When these lies were found out to be indeed lies, Tony Blair justified the Iraq war by claiming to be against dictatorship in the Middle East. However, now he supports many dictators inside and outside of the Middle East.

Related articles

• Tony Blair ‘misrepresented’ Iraq threat, says UN weapons inspector Hans Blix
• Britain ‘over promised and under delivered in Iraq’, general admits ahead of Chilcot
• Not the Chilcot Report
• Tony Blair Admits His Ignorance of Middle East; Immediately Calls for New War
• Dutch government warned Blair on Iraq war
• ‘Tony Blair maybe on trial for Iraq war crimes’, Corbyn says
• Put Tony Blair in the dock
• Anti-Austerity Candidate Corbyn: Tony Blair Could Face War Crimes
• From Afghan and Iraq wars to Charlie Hebdo murders
• Tony Blair Should Be ‘Dragged in Shackles to Court’ Over Iraq War, Says Father of Killed Soldier