"you come from belgium, which of course is pretty much a non-country."

by Letitia Effertz 7 min read

When was the last time the people of this country were given a say on membership of the European Union?

As you are well aware, the last time the people of this country were given a say on membership of the European Union was back in 1975 .

Who is Nigel Farage?

Nigel Paul Farage (born 3 April 1964) is an English MEP and leader of the Brexit Party, having formerly served as the leader of the UK Independence Party.

Will the EU cause insurgency?

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence. Quote by Nigel Farage on an article in the Zimbabwe Independent, regarding the EU winning the Nobel Peace Prize, 19 October 2012. Nobel Peace Prize really deserves a new name.

Interview with Christian van Ruyskensvelde

Interview with Christian van Ruyskensvelde, civil servant at the Council of Europe.

Farage vs. Rompuy

Nigel Farage, the parliamentary head of the eurosceptic United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip), has been sanctioned by the European Parliament after refusing to apologise for statements he made against European Union president Herman Van Rompuy.

Dangers of tanning beds

When it comes to getting a tan in a tanning bed, there is much controversy. While a tanned body is attractive, the problem is that there are also many tanning bed dangers, some that people know of and some that are hidden. Unfortunately, because the damage is not immediately visible, young people often are unaware of the dangers of tanning.

Ban of the Burqa

Not a week--not a day, at times--passes without some controversy somewhere having to do with the Muslim veil, the burqa. France, Turkey, Britain and many other nations are tangling with whether to prohibit it, while some conservative clerics in the heart of Islam--in Egypt--have declared full-body coverings un-Islamic.

Link between homosexuality and pedophilia?

April 2010 - Tensions rose over comments made by the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who called homosexuality “a pathology” and linked it to pedophilia. The comments came as the Vatican was trying to calm a scandal over sexual abuse by priests.

Hands Off Our Kids!

One of the most controversial stories of the past decades must be the sexual abuses made by Catholic priests on minors and the protection of the Vatican.

Teenage Pregnancy

Statistics show that the UK has the highest percentage of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe – and is second only to the United States, according to figures by the World Health Organisation.

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2004

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We seek an amicable divorce from the European Union and its replacement with a genuine free-trade agreement, which is what my parents' generation thought we’d signed up for in the first place.
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2010

  1. You have the charisma of a damp rag, and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, […] that we're all going to ask, is "Who are you?" I'd never heard of you. No...
  2. I have been called a great many things in my time – that's politics.
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2012

  • And I honestly predict that I mean this. That if we go on doing this to Greece. We will drive that country into a violent revolution.
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2013

  • I have to say that everybody from David Cameron to half this panel say, "Wouldn't it be terrible if we were like Norway and Switzerland?" Really? They're rich. They're happy. They're self governing.
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2014

  • When I said yes to these debates I thought you would honestly make the pro-EU case. By saying 7% of our laws are made in Brussels, you are wilfully lying to the British people about the extent to w...
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2015

  • Of course we're good enough. Switzerland has negotiated more global free-trade agreements than we have, without being part of the European Union, and Iceland, with a population of 300,000 people ha...
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2016

  • There's not much point in having a United Kingdom if we're governed from somewhere else. We may as well become a satellite state of the European Union because that's virtually what we are. Our cour...
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2017

  • All of us in our lives go through ups and downs and I regret the down that I am in at the moment. But I make this plea, particularly to the media - please leave my wife and children alone. Don't ha...
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2018

  • We have nothing to fear and that is the reason why we should only accept a clean and clear Brexit, not some fudge.
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2019

  • If we don’t leave on October 31, then the scores you’ve seen for the Brexit Party today will be repeated in a general election, and we are getting ready for it.
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