This is an occasional award to be given out to that politician in the world most likely to bring the already poor reputation of politicians into even worse repute. And even though there are still a couple of days in the month left there is an overwhelming winner who cannot be beaten.
It was a tough competition with most of the UK Labour Party caucus making a strong bid for this award. Clearly there are difficulties in the relationship with Jeremy Corbyn but the timing of the attempted coup being run against him says everything. Instead of uniting and taking advantage of the disarray the Conservatives are in they chose instead to plunge the Labour Party into crisis. You get the strong impression, even from over here, that they would prefer to lose an election rather than run the risk that Corbyn is the next Prime Minister of the UK. And that the referendum result is the pretext not the cause.
But even this gross stupidity on a mass scale cannot match the obnoxiousness of Nigel Farage’s recent speech to the European Union Parliament.
He occupies a strange position having collected a wage for the last 17 years to be part of a body he does not believe in. This is Cameron Slater quality hypocrisy.
Farage said that what he would like to see “is a grown up, civil attitude to how we negotiate a different relationship.”
He then said that to the gathered crowd of MEPs that virtually none of them had ever done a proper job in their lives, or worked in business or in a trade or ever created a job. So much for the grown up civil attitude.
The speech is below if you want to appreciate the full hypocrisy of Farage’s position.
To applause EC President Jean-Claude Juncker asked why exactly Farage had turned up. And Scotland showed the way with SNP’s Alyn Smith giving this impassioned speech.
This was backed up by a similarly passionate speech given by SNP Westminister leader MP Angus Robertson in Parliament.
Interesting what a united determined progressive party can achieve …
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