Nigel Farage says German wife is not taking Briton's job
Oh this is fun.... 2 minutes of bang-on-the-money questioning and shambolic responses.
Steaming great hypocrite. JMO obv.
The leader of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, was asked whether his wife, who is German, was taking a British person's job by being employed as his secretary.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson put the question at the launch of UKIP's European elections poster campaign warning about Europeans taking British jobs.
Mr Farage said "nobody else could do that job", working unsociable hours seven days a week.
He said it was "very different" to the hundreds of thousands of people "flooding" the lower end of the labour market.
Steaming great hypocrite. JMO obv.
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Lower end Labour market. Why are the BBC and Sky News trying to defend uncontrolled mass immigration?
Maybe, but being Farage's wife certainly is
Tip for UKIP: it's only a smear if it's not true.
Well if having to bonk the Kryten spare head look-a-like is part of the job description for being his secretary I doubt there will be long lines forming round the block to apply....and if they were they'd be a bunch of over 65 white ladies called Peggy from Eastbourne which as we all know is the No 1 target of the international Slavic conspiracy to take over Britain
But UKIP's poster campaign doesn't discriminate - it posits that all non-British EU citizens can take our jobs. Mrs Farage is apparently one of them.
If that's the best the establishment can throw at him, that his wife works for him, then they are in serious trouble.
Almost reminds me of some of the no campaign for the scottish referendum.
That's what I thought but another issue does as well - if the hours are that long - is he keeping within the Working Time Directive? If he is then the hours are not that long and if he is not then even a German lady is not required to keep such hours.
Standard devils advocate questions for political interviews
Lets just wait for the polls. The last UKIP scandal, EU allowance, made zero impact on the polls.
Why don't people understand, that in many cases, people are not voting for UKIP but against the big three Westminster elite, that don't care what the voters want.
Like me, although in the GE I wouldn't.
Nick Clegg already did that the other week - ranting and raving about how the UK needs the clout and influence of the EU and requires EU membership for job security. He basically just re-hashed the exact same arguments he has against Scottish independence. It amazes me that UKIP (and some UKIPers here) reject Clegg's arguments when it comes to the EU but apparently embrace them when he applies them to Scotland.
A poster isn't going to include caveats is it. It's a poster.
Yes, "EU Citizens want YOUR JOBS" wouldn't look quite as serious if it had an asterisk with *We're not counting the party leader's European wife here, though. Oh, or any Germans, Scandinavians or French either - they're OK.
Be that as it may, attacking Farage for using his wife is about as inept and out of ideas as you can get. What robinson did was attack the man not the policy.
Love the BiB.
However, I don't think Robinson was actually attacking policy - he was attacking the message behind the poster, which Farage doesn't apparently subscribe to (or he does, but with obvious exceptions which see him deem it ok for some EU citizens to take our jobs).
I have to admit, voting UKIP in May and watching Cameron, Miliband and Clegg squirm in horror will be intensely satisfying.
The more dirt the Westminster's journalists and politicians throw at UKIP, the more the public thinks what fun it will be to rub their faces in it. No one really takes the European elections seriously anyway, so what have they got to lose.
I must not be a member of the public.
I mean an ordinary member of the public, not someone that hangs out on politics forums like you and me.
That is not a poster worthy bitesize titbit.