(Reuters) – The UKIP party will likely top European elections on Thursday or come a close second, according to opinion polls that suggest a barrage of criticism accusing it of racial slurs and bigotry has failed to put off voters.
“Try as I might, I cannot remember a time when Britain’s various elites were as united in fury as they are now over UKIP leader Nigel Farage.” Brendan O’Neill is right. I can’t either. Outside Breitbart London you can count
The BBC has told the popular author and commentator Peter Hitchens that he is to receive an on air apology following misrepresentation by the corporation’s News Briefing programme last weekend. Breitbart London reported earlier this week that Mr Hitchens was
Several MPs have previously made remarks very similar to Nigel Farage on immigration from Romania, but have not been called racist by mainstream political parties or the media. Before immigration restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian nationals were lifted at the
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will today use a speech to give a coded attack on UKIP, accusing it of wanting to “pull up the drawbridge and shut Britain off from the world.” Although not mentioning the party by
It is 1992 and Neil Kinnock look set to put the Conservative government out of its misery in the General Election. The Tories are still reeling from the loss of Margaret Thatcher two years earlier and Labour is on the
For the Westminster elite it is just about the worst thing you can call someone; short of a paedophile or a murderer. “Nigel Farage is a racist,” said Labour MP David Lammy yesterday. Then came Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper:
An interview aired on Channel 4 News last night took a turn against the presenter Jon Snow as the Romanian guest ended up agreeing with UKIP’s Nigel Farage about “unruly Romanians”. The interview opened by introducing Mariana Gordan, who came
One of UKIP’s most senior European candidates has refused to apologise after she was pictured making an offensive hand gesture at protesters. Janice Atkinson made the ‘one-fingered salute’ after members of the People’s Assembly of Ashford had screamed abuse at
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has taken out a full-page advert in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper in an attempt to clarify his comments over the Romanian immigrants story that the media and politicians have latched onto this weekend. Farage writes: “My
“To understand Europe you have to be a genius or French,” said an exasperated Madeleine Albright when she was US Secretary of State. So if, like Secretary Albright, you are not up to speed on the European Union debate, despite
Breitbart News had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Nile Gardiner to discuss the UK Independence Party (UKIP), British-American Relations, and the Conservative movement. Gardiner is Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center For Freedom. He is a
Gillian Duffy, whose encounter with former Prime Minister Gordon Brown led to him making one of the worst campaign gaffes in recent British political history, has criticised Labour Party leader Ed Miliband as too “privileged”, and said the party needs
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has hit back after a mainstream media onslaught following a comment he made about Romanian people. Farage clashed with LBC’s James O’Brien yesterday, in a radio interview that the media was quick to label as a
In a move that will outrage millions of conservative French voters, the head of the French Socialist party has ceded his spot in a debate with Marine Le Pen, leader of the right-wing eurosceptic Front National, to Martin Schulz, a
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has declared that Britain must endeavour to “save Europe” once again, this time not by arms, but by example in exiting the “failed project” that is the European Union. Writing for ConservativeHome today, Farage has outlined
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg has branded advocates of British independence “deeply unpatriotic”, according the BBC. In an interview on Radio 4, he claimed that leaving the EU would lead to widespread unemployment. He claimed it was wrong to
With one week to go before the European elections, each party leader will suffering from a differing degree of nerves. David Cameron will be the most relaxed. The Conservative spin machine has managed expectations well; if the party were to
Though anti-EU outsiders UKIP might top the polls at the European Parliament elections in Britain, a eurosceptic streak runs through all the mainstream parties they stand against. The United Kingdom Independence Party of Nigel Farage, which is fixed on getting
The Daily Mail – one of Britain’s best read newspapers and one of the most highly ranked news websites in the world – has been forced to apologise and pay damages to the wife of UKIP leader Nigel Farage after
David Cameron has indicated in an interview with the BBC that he would be willing to allow Nigel Farage to join the TV debates before the General Election as long as the Green Party leader also came. He also proposed
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that his UK Independence Party is becoming the British political party that ethnic minority voters will start to vote for and associate with, following a successful London campaign event featuring some of the party’s
WESTMINSTER, London, UK – Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party this morning launched his party’s local election campaign wherein he stated that the party would win “hundreds of seats… or I will look rather stupid”. Farage was
A writer for the Huffington Post has admitted vandalising a UKIP poster in Birmingham. In an article published today, Bill Drummond, who describes himself as an artist, proudly posted photos of himself defacing the poster and justified his actions by
The Conservative Party sits dazed, confused and undecided, at a crossroads. Despite pulling the decimated British economy from the ashes, the Party is on course to come third in the European Elections this month. In the last ten years it
