Farage elicits colourful invective from Fianna Fáil ministers
One of the surprise entrants on the No side this time round has been the UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.
He appears to be eliciting some unusually colourful invective from the Yes side, not least from Fianna Fáil ministers.
At a Lisbon debate on Monday night in Dublin, European Affairs minister Dick Roche labelled him “a narrow, bigoted, jingoist, peddling an intolerant Little Englander’s view of the world”.
Farage hit back (see video below), saying Roche’s comments were motivated by fear and malice. He appears to be inhabiting the space left by Declan Ganley.
Yesterday on RTE’s Today with Pat Kenny show, Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin said Farage represented a “fundamental agenda” that didn’t believe in climate change and wished to scrap the Belfast Agreement.
Farage said: “Do not trust your politicians, they are careerists, they are the only ones that will benefit from this treaty, they’re the ones that will be secure in their careers, and you will lose your independence and your freedom. It’s not worth it, say No and let’s have a big debate across Europe about where we want to go.”
