How much does it cost to tell the one of the EU's top officials he has "the charisma of a damp rag?" About RM 12,000, as a European member of Parliament has discovered.
In 2010, Nigel Farage, an anti-European Union member of the EU Parliament, rose following a speech by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council. As Van Rompuy listened, Farage, a Briton, added that the former Belgian prime minister came from "pretty much a non-country."
The Parliament docked Farage €2,980 — 10 days' expenses. Farage appealed to the European Court of Justice. It ruled this month that he filed his appeal too late and would also have to pay Parliament's legal expenses.
According to this post from Mish (Mike Shedlock), Der Spiegel (an influential German magazine) voted Farage the 7th most dangerous man of Europe. And what is the party creed of this "dangerous" man?
That does not sound that bad to me, actually, the Malaysian government might want to check if they can learn something from it.
"EC president Jose Barroso is a delusional idiot and was a supporter of Chairman Mao"
"The only buyers of Spanish bonds are Spanish banks"
"Listen. The Whole Thing's a Giant Ponzi Scheme!"
"At the end of the day, this whole thing is going bust"
"We have been led by a group of ex-communists to a total disaster"
"What we're doing in Brussels with Barroso, and the other joker Van Rumpoy, is we are actually rebuilding a model of centralized undemocratic government run by bureaucrats"
