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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Friday, April 18, 2003 

Who are these Leaders of the UKIP

First let's have a look at, probably the most influential, Nigel Farage MEP.

We can access his declared biography from this link provided by the European Parliament:-

Nigel Farage

His Biography tells us the following:-

"O levels (1980); A levels (1982). Commodity broker with Drexel Burnham Lambert (1982-1986), Crédit Lyonnais (1986-1993) and Refco Overseas Ltd (since 1994)."

Having 'O' Levels and 'A' Levels seems fairly uncontroversial although quantifying them would be more edifying. Drexel Burnham Lambert rings a bell, Ivan Boesky and the movie Wall Street wasn't it? One description of that company found at random from Google gives the following:-

The Fall of Drexel Burnham Lambert

How about Credit Lyonnais, the next step in Nigel Farage's career, the next ECB head on trial for fraud now rings bells, Tricky Trichet was it? (Anybody read Bernard Connolly's 'Something Rotten at the Heart of Europe' ?) Try this link below, again a fairly random Google pick:-

The Credit Lyonnais Debacle

Unlike his earlier employers, the final company listed by Nigel Farage, namely: Refco Overseas Ltd, seems to have avoided flirtations with bankruptcy. According to its web site, which can be accessed from the llink below, it still seems to be thriving on hawking its package of sophisticated derivative and other trading packages, but life in that high pressure trading environment must be pretty tough in present market conditions. No wonder UKIP's best known MEP seems to so value the security of his European Parliamentary benefits that he appears to have lost all thought of Britain ever leaving the EU.

Refco Overseas Ltd

The links at the side of this text give further information on this interesting and very influential senior party figure. His role as Chairman of the European Election Committee has been pivotal in the present crisis now facing the party.

We hope to give a reasonably full data base on the published data on UKIP leader Roger Knapman before the end of the holiday weekend. Nowhere near sufficient, we recognise, to begin to answer the question that is the topic of this Blog. Lesser figures such as Chairman Lott, Vice-Chairman Nattrass and the Party Secretaries will be considered as time permits.



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posted by Martin |9:05 PM
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