**Posted by Phineas
Nigel Farage is the leader of UKIP, the UK Independence Party [1], which is a small-government, free-market party that advocates Britain’s withdrawal from the EU. He is also, like the more well-known Daniel Hannan, a Member of the European Parliament. In the following clip, he addresses the President of the European Commission, Mr. Barroso, on matters of democracy, national sovereignty, and border control. I think you’ll find he expresses sentiments that many Americans would agree with:
(BTW, the “star-spangled banner” he mocks is the European flag [2], not Old Glory, before anyone gets in a lather…)
Now, I don’t know much more about Mr. Farage other than the few speeches I’ve seen and the general platform of his party, but, since he’s a thorn in the side of the statists of the EU and most Americans aren’t fond of our own statists, I’d like to suggest a trade to our friends in Europe: you send us Messrs. Farage and Hannan, and we’ll (gladly) give you President Obama, the Congressional Progressive Caucus [3], and most of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus [4](1).
Deal? 
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via Hot Air’s Green Room [6]
(1) Granted, there’s quite a bit of overlap between the two. Oh, and we get to keep Allen West.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets [7])