When the European Parliament stops being polite

Posted By Joshua Keating Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 10:11 AM Share

As RFE's Luke Allnut notes, "It's always been one of the European Parliament's most delicious ironies that many of its members are dyed-in-the-wool Euroskeptics.

The above rant Nigel Farage of the anti-EU United Kingdom Independence Party, in which he calls EU President Herman Von Rompuy a "wet rag" and a "quiet assassin of European democracy" to his face as well as referring to Belgium as a non-country -- is a perfect example.

Is it time to add the EU body to the list of the world's unruliest parliaments?

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KDVINER70

10:28 AM ET

February 25, 2010

Attendance

I see their sessions are as well attended as those of our U.S. Congress as shown on CSPAN. LOL

KADHI

12:05 PM ET

February 25, 2010

Obnoxious boor

Nigel Farage is an obnoxious boor and he certainly does not speak for this British citizen. His views are ill-informed and his rant well beyond the bounds of common decency. The whole speech was no doubt designed to be the basis of a propaganda video which will be used to stir up his 'little englander' supporters whose close-minded parochialism feeds his ludicrous political party.

DANIELS

12:40 PM ET

February 25, 2010

EP manners

Having formerly worked in the European Parliament, I can definitely confirm that manners are checked at the door of each plenary session. It's quite amusing to watch the MEPs verbally assault each other and on one occasion I even heard a translator break character and chuckle at a particularly abusive outburst from an unnamed MEP.

BLUE13326

9:39 PM ET

February 25, 2010

What were there something

What were there something like 5 people in the entire building???

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