Nigel Farage: "We have said to large numbers of people: ‘you can come here from any part of the world. By the way please don’t bother to learn our language, don’t integrate in any way at all."

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1/9/15, "Farage blames 'fifth column' for Charlie Hebdo murders," Euractiv.com

"UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has blamed “multiculturalism” and “uncontrolled immigration” in Europe for Wednesday’s (7 January) deadly attacks on the offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

In an interview yesterday with Fox News, Farage said there was a “fifth column” at work in many EU countries. The term was coined during the Spanish Civil War and refers to a group of saboteurs living within a society, or besieged city, that secretly tries to undermine it from within to help an external enemy.  

“Let’s be absolutely frank and honest about this, we now have in many European countries […] a fifth column living within our own countries […] people, mercifully few in number, but people who are out to destroy our whole civilisation and way of life,” Farage said on the US news channel."...

[Ed. note: Farage also correctly said the US has a fifth column as well, but Euractiv edited out those words via [...] above. Following in bold are edited words: "Let's be absolutely frank, honest about this. We now have within many European countries, and dare I say it within the USA too, a fifth column living within our own countries, people, mercifully few in number, but people who are out to destroy our whole civilization and our way of life."]

(continuing): "On Wednesday evening, he made the same point on the UK’s Channel 4 News. "We've got people living in these countries, holding our passports, who hate us,” he said.

His comments were criticised by Prime Minister David Cameron and other UK politicians. Ten journalists and two police officers were slain in the attack on the newspaper, which has run cartoons lampooning the prophet Mohammed. 

“With the appalling events in Paris yesterday still so fresh in people’s minds, with people still struggling for their life who have been injured, I think today is not the day to make political remarks or political arguments," Cameron said yesterday afternoon in Manchester.

"As countries in Europe we share certain values that we think are not incidental to our success [...] those values include freedom of speech, the right to disagree, the right to argue in public, the right to have government under the rule of law, the right a tolerant society with a strong democracy. Today is the day for those arguments," he said.

Home Secretary Theresa May, a Conservative, said it was “irresponsible to talk about a fifth column”.

Speaking on LBC Radio, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, said he was “dismayed” by Farage’s comments.

“To imply that British Muslims, who I know are fervently British yet also proud of their Muslim faith, are somehow part of the problem not part of the solution is grabbing the wrong end of the stick,” Clegg said.

Immigration

On Channel 4, Farage called for “full checks on everybody”, who migrates to Britain as part of a “controlled immigration policy”.

Asked by anchorman Jon Snow if Europe should bind together at a time like this, Farage disagreed. "It doesn't say we should be part of a political union. Yes, there are shared values of cultures [...] but that doesn't mean we should be one state," he said.

Immigration is a hot topic in the run up to the UK’s national elections in May this year. That poll will have direct consequences on the UK’s relationship with the EU.

Cameron, who is pushing for stricter control on immigration within the EU as part of a series of reforms, has promised voters a referendum on the UK’s EU membership if his Conservative party are elected.

On Wednesday, he met German Chancellor Angela Merkel in London. Cameron’s desire for immigration controls would breach the EU treaty right of freedom of movement.
 
Cameron has said he will campaign for the UK’s to stay in the EU, if he wins the reforms he wants. Merkel has said she is ready to go some, but not all the way, towards meeting his demands.

But Cameron is under significant pressure to be tougher on Europe, and immigration, after UKIP triumphed in the European elections. Since then, UKIP, which wants to take the UK out of the EU, has beaten Tory candidates in two high-profile by-elections.

The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that the UK media regulator Ofcom had decided that UKIP would be classified as a "major party" for the election. It means UKIP is guaranteed airtime, during the campaign, for two party election broadcasts on commercial radio and television broadcasters for the first time.

It puts UKIP on the same footing as the other national parties, formally endorsing an era of four party politics in the UK, the Telegraph said.

It will also up pressure on major broadcasters to give Farage a place in televised leaders’ debate. The UKIP leader famously bested Nick Clegg in a televised debate over the EU, last year.

Multiculturalism

Farage, an MEP and leader of the European Parliament’s Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, said EU governments’ biggest mistake was promoting multiculturalism.

“We have said to large numbers of people: ‘you can come here from any part of the world. By the way please don’t bother to learn our language, don’t integrate in any way at all. You can take over whole parts of our towns and cities and we will say it has made us a wonderful diverse nation,’” Farage told Fox.

“We come from countries with Christian cultures and Christian constitutions and it’s about time we started standing up for that,” he added.

“That does not mean that the vast majority of Muslims living in Britain, France, Germany and America are not law-abiding and peaceable, and really good human beings,” he said.

Farage predicted that profiling of Muslim communities, as part of anti-terror operations would be less controversial as a result of the attacks. Terrorism in Europe would be a problem for years to come, he added. 

EU leaders have condemned the attacks, and all three major European institutions held a minute's silence at noon, in memory of the victims."

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Original text of Farage comments on US television:

1/7/15, "What led up to Paris attack?" Fox News, Neil Cavuto, Nigel Farage interview.

Via Michael Savage radio show. Savage played the Farage audio.

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Europeans are forced to fight open borders Elites for their survival:

1/7/15, "The European Civil War: Elites vs People in a Fight for Survival," Gerald Warner, Breitbart London

"Europe is in a state of war: specifically, a civil war between the self-appointed elites who have destroyed much of the continent’s freedom, culture and prosperity and the insurgent populations they have deceived and enslaved. This is a war to the death; only one side can survive the outcome.

Try, as they say in the modern argot, to get your head round this. 

The people of Germany, like those of many other European countries, are feeling increasingly desperate about the imposition upon them of mass immigration – an inflow that is unending and which is largely composed of Muslims who are hostile to Christianity and the indigenous culture.

Well, you might think, that is a serious situation; but fortunately Germany is a representative democracy and when citizens make their concerns known to their representatives, the government will surely take steps to help them. Not so. German Chancellor Angela Merkel used her New Year's Eve address to vilify her fellow citizens in the Pegida movement who are protesting against the Islamisation of the West.

According to their chancellor, these people who simply wish to live in a country that is recognisably Germany “have prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts”. Yet the number of asylum seekers in Germany rose to 200,000 in the past year – quadruple the figure for 2012 – and immigration reached a 20-year high. There are similar situations across Europe.

But the governments of Germany, Britain and other EU states are not simply behaving incompetently and allowing their populations to be overrun through their ineptness. On the contrary, they are actively promoting the destruction of their own societies, in the interests of globalisation and the elimination of national identities and cultures.

Merkel has mobilised all the forces at her disposal in an attempt to suppress the incipient rebellion against liberal totalitarianism. All the usual suspects have rallied to the regime: the state broadcaster, Germany’s legacy parties, the financial establishment, the churches… The Catholic Church, whose adherents are the victims of mass murder in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria and every other country where jihadism is running rampant, switched off the lights of Cologne Cathedral to obscure the Pegida marchers who are trying to prevent a further influx of Muslims into Europe."...

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Era of 4 party politics begins in UK. Two articles follow:

1/8/15, "Ukip is now a national 'major party', regulator rules," UK Telegraph, Christopher Hope

"Ukip will be allowed two party election broadcasts on commercial broadcasters for the first time during the campaign - like the Tories, Labour and Liberal Democrats"

"Nigel Farage has received a huge boost after a Government regulator said the UK Independent Party would be ranked as a “major party” at May’s election.

In practice the decision by media regulator Ofcom guarantees airtime for Ukip for two party election broadcasts on commercial radio and television broadcasters for the first time during the campaign.

But it means that Ukip will be on the same footing as the other national parties: the Conseratives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats, formally endorsing an era of four party politics in the UK.

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It will also make it almost impossible for the major broadcasters to deny Mr Farage, the Ukip leader, a place in the televised leaders’ debate.  

Mr Farage told The Telegraph: “This is the first time nationally that Ukip has been recognised as a major party. I am very pleased indeed. “Fruitcakes are in. There have been certain by-elections where we have been classed as a major party in a particular constituency. 

“As far as the negotiations for the TV election debates are concerned it puts us in a very much stronger position. 

“It is an important recognition that Ukip has arrived as a real political force." 

The news is a blow for the Green Party, which has been campaigning to be allowed to be allowed to take part in the debates. 

Natalie Bennett, the Green Party Leader, said: "The Green Party is deeply disappointed by this draft Ofcom ruling, not only for itself, but for the damage it risks doing to British democracy." 

Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, added: “Not only is this grossly unfair, but it denies the public the opportunity to hear from a fresh voice.” 

Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code requires that “due weight must be given to the broadcast coverage of major parties during the election period”. 

It does not directly affect which party leaders are invited to take part in live TV debates, which is an editorial matter for each broadcaster in direct negotiation with the parties. 

But Ofcom rules require broadcasters to ensure all coverage, including debates, complies with rules concerning due impartiality. 

Announcing the plans – which are subject to a consultation – Ofcom said its "initial view is that Ukip may qualify for major party status in England and Wales for the General Election and English local elections on 7 May 2015”.
 
Support for Ukip was running at an average of 15 per cent in the polls last year, while the party won 29 per cent of the vote in last year’s European Parliament elections. 

However it added that “neither the Green Party (including the Scottish Green Party) nor the TUV [in Northern Ireland] have secured sufficient support in previous elections and current opinion polls to be added to Ofcom’s major party list”. 

Ofcom based its decision after analysing “previous electoral performance, including an analysis of share of vote alongside seats won; and current opinion polling data”. 

The Green Party had “not demonstrated significant past electoral support in General Elections” and still only had 4 per cent support in opinion polls last year. 

In Scotland and Wales respectively, the major parties are listed as the Scottish National party and Plaid Cyrmu. 

In Northern Ireland, they are the Alliance party; the Democratic Unionist party; Sinn Féin; the Social Democratic and Labour party; and the Ulster Unionist party."

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UK PM David Cameron says he might withdraw from tv debates since Greens aren't allowed, opponents say Cameron's just scared. Cameron also says debates, if held, should be over by March 30 before the formal campaign season even begins:

1/8/15, "David Cameron unlikely to take part in leaders' debates after Greens' snub," UK Telegraph, Christopher Hope

"David Cameron has all but ruled out taking part in televised election debates. His remarks prompted Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the UK Independence Party to accuse Mr Cameron of running scared from the leaders' debates ahead of polling day in May. 
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The Prime Minister made his comments after Ofcom, the media regulator, said in draft guidance that the UK Independence Party but not the Green party would be a ”major party” at the election.

The news was seen as dealing a serious blow to the hopes of the Greens to take part in the election debates. Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code requires that “due weight must be given to the broadcast coverage of major parties during the election period”. 

It does not directly affect which party leaders are invited to take part in live TV debates, which is an editorial matter for each broadcaster in direct negotiation with the parties. 

Mr Cameron has repeatedly said the Greens should be allowed to take part in the televised debates if Ukip was welcomed. 

Mr Cameron was asked by ITV News if he was saying that he would not cooperate in the debates "as it stands" because the Greens were not allowed to participate. 

He replied: “Correct. I don’t think the current proposals work. You can’t have one minor party without having another minor party and I think that’s only fair.” 

Mr Cameron is thought to be keen for the Green party to participate because it will help them take votes away from the left of centres Labour and Liberal Democrat parties. 

One source close to Mr Cameron said that it was “obvious point” that you “can’t have Ukip without the Greens”. 

Speaking on the BBC's North West Tonight on Thursday night Mr Cameron said: “I don’t see how you can have Ukip and not the Greens. That is my very strong opinion and I don’t think I could be clearer about it. 

“I did the TV debates in the last election. I would like to do them again – but you can’t have some minor parties in and not other parties in.” 

Mr Cameron suggested the debates – if there are held – should be completed by the start of the official general election campaign on March 30. 

He added: “I also think I would like to get them done before the start of the election campaign proper because the election campaign should be about travelling around the country, and listening and talking to people rather than just sitting in a television studio.” 

Ed Miliband, Labour leader, said: “The Prime Minister should be able to stand on his record and stop running scared.” 

Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, added: "Come on David Cameron, the broadcasters have invited us, the public expect it, just say yes and stop making excuses." 

Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party, claimed that Mr Cameron “is running chicken”. 

He said: “Ofcom has stated clearly that Ukip is a major party and the Greens aren't. David Cameron is scared to debate with me.” 

He added that the debates “should go ahead without the chicken”, and that the debates should go ahead without Mr Cameron. 

Earlier Mr Farage had praised Ofcom for its draft ruling that appears to cement the party’s role as a fourth political force in British politics. 

The decision – which is open to consultation – will mean that Ukip is allowed two party election broadcasts on commercial radio and television broadcasters during the campaign."...


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