The Euroskeptics of the United Kingdom Independence Party
(UKIP) had couple of hypocritical embarrassing moments in the last
week.
At the launch of UKIP’s European election campaign earlier this
week Nick Robinson, the BBC’s political editor, interviewed UKIP’s
leader Nigel Farage, who has warned about Europeans taking British
jobs. Farage is married to a German who is also his secretary. When
asked by Robinson if his wife had taken a British job, Farage said
“no” and went on to say, “I don’t know anybody that would work
those kind of hours.”
Read Robinson’s account of the encounter with Farage here and
watch a video of the conversation below.
UKIP’s European election campaign includes posters, some of
which are below:
The posters convey much of the sentiment you expect from
Euroskeptics, but they also contain another example of UKIP
hypocrisy.
The actor who appears in the poster warning of “unlimited cheap
labour” is Irish.
That UKIP would feature a non-British actor in a campaign poster
warning that “British workers are hit hard by unlimited cheap
labour” has unsurprisingly being called hypocritical by
the vice-chairman of the Conservative Party, however some have
pointed out that the Irish have been free to move to the U.K. since
before the U.K. joined the European Union.
More from Reason on UKIP here.
from Hit & Run http://ift.tt/1fzUfi1
via IFTTT