Alex welcomes back to the show Nigel Farage, British politician, former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, and member of the European Parliament for the South East. Farage faces an official reprimand by the European Parliament for criticizing its president Herman Van Rompuy on Wednesday. Alex also talks with John Young, webmaster of Cryptome, a website that covers news on freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance. The ISP Network Solutions shuttered Young’s site earlier in the week after he posted a document summarizing Microsoft’s dealings with law enforcement agencies.
I didn’t voted for that guy.
Richard Corbett, “25 things you didn’t know when you voted for UKIP (and why you’ll never vote for them again)” – 2004
“Dr Alan Sked, UKIP’s founder leader, 1993-97 has said: “They [UKIP] are racist and have been infected by the far right†(The People, 6 June 2004)”
– in UK Indymedia, june 2009; Richard Corbett, “25 things you didn’t know when you voted for UKIP” (fall 2004); other sources
“I founded UKIP as a tolerant, liberal and democratic party. By 1997 I could already see the far-right writing on the wall and quit as party leader and member. It is a decision that I have never regretted, now least of all. I hope that all decent people will condemn the party as you did in your splendid leading article. ” (Dr Alan Sked, UKIP’s founder, letter published in “Times Online”, january 2010)