We can’t wait to vote leave the EU. I hope for the sake of this country that people stop listening to the continual scaremongering that Cameron continues to thrust down our throats. Nigel Farage had been the only one who tells it how it really is and gives us the true figures of the immigration problems etc but is continually cut from any airplay which is disgusting as people need to hear both sides of this massive decision. We are keeping our fingers crossed .
Deborah Pitt
on March 24, 2016 at 10:58 pm
Nigel Farage was making a political point, not politicl point-scoring, at the most relevant possible time to underline the case he has been making for months. I suppose the interviewer would criticise someone who shouted FIRE! at the top of his voice in a smoke-filled cinema for being noisy and alarming people.
I agree with a previous contributor: get rid of the BBC in its present form.
Roger Turner
on March 24, 2016 at 10:32 pm
Bravo Mr.Smith
Perhaps he doesn`t realise he has done far more with his outrageous brand of interviewing to publicise the lengths the remainders are going to vilify the LEAVERS who are beginning to express their FURY at this Jihady mob of criminals who have taken over the streets apparently unopposed by the authorities.
Notice how we will all be safer from terrorism if we remain! my eye.
Oh and there`s boy George`s budget triumphial approach – it`s all fixed to remain chaps! – hasn`t his outrageous attitude provoked his own come-uppance
They`re getting more desperate by the day.
I hope the country is taking due note.
Congratulations to all who have posted on this thread so far you have all hit the point
Michael Keal
on March 24, 2016 at 7:19 pm
Dear Mr. Norman Smith, it was the bombs in Brussels that were inflammatory, not Mr. Farage’s comments on them.
Mr. Farage was quite right to warn people that in his view it was the EU’s manifest failure to control the free movement of terrorists and weapons of carnage across the EU states’ borders that was the biggest single factor leading to the tragedy in Brussels.
What was inappropriate was you trying to deflect the blame for this failure in security away from the EU towards Mr. Farage by suggesting that his remarks were inappropriate because of their timing! Why should he not remind us and the EU of the warnings he had given in the EU parliament before the attacks? And when would it then have been appropriate for him to do so again?
What was inappropriate was for you, an employee of the BBC which is funded by our license fees and our taxes and which therefore should be neutral, to be blatantly taking sides in the forthcoming referendum debate and using this tragedy as an opportunity for political point-scoring against a politician like Mr. Farage who had the guts to say what he felt needed to be said. It is his job to do so. Although you took care to argue against Mr. Farage by quoting various politicians, by hiding behind their words, in arguing for the remain cause, your attack on Mr. Farage could hardly be described as neutral. And in arguing against a point raised by Mr. Farage by stating that the UK is not in Schengen you quite clearly crossed the line.
You then continued to argue against Mr. Farage, again using someone else’s words, that “The key argument for remaining in the EU is security.”
Many think it blatantly obvious that the complete opposite is true.
With regards the EU arrest warrant, which you brought to the discussion, many believe that turning the UK into a police state by introducing such measures will do nothing to enhance our security. If it hasn’t helped Brussels, why should it help us?
The chaos and insecurity that has descended upon European countries is no accident. It is the direct result of decisions made by the EU. The current situation did not exist, to the extent that it does now, before those decisions were taken.
Some even argue that this has been intentionally done in order to create a situation which they will then use as a pretext for imposing a harsher, more authoritarian regime.
Were we to leave the EU we would be in a better position to negotiate with the EU as one country to another on matters of security.
As part of the EU we have very little influence and virtually no control. We are unable to stop them making bad decisions that cause problems, nor can we stop them imposing their solutions to those problems which may prove to be worse than the problems themselves.
Panmelia
on March 25, 2016 at 4:11 pm
Hear, hear, Michae Keal! The Brussels Broadcasting Corp becomes more blatant and disgraceful in its bias every day. Norman Smith must think that because he appears on telly daily he’s someone important, entitled to display his own views. He should remember who pays his no doubt excessive salary (not for much longer I hope) and that we expect a neutral stance from the messengers instead of using their role as a tub-thumping political platform.
Well said Nigel “The European Arrest Warrant is an ABOMINATION … no prima facie evidence… even 18 months in a foreign jail … against everything Britain has stood for ever since Magna Carta!” (from min.4:05 in the video-clip). People must realise that if we vote to Remain, it will not be only the EAW, we will also get the full nine yards of the Corpus Juris EU’s criminal code: Bye bye trial by jury, bye bye Habeas Corpus, no double jeopardy, no hearsay evidence, no prejudicial media reporting, etc etc. And it will be Hello European Prosecutor (already under construction) and Hello the lethally-armed paramilitary European Gendarmerie (already up and running and training in Vicenza, Italy). Mrs May has already said that “of course” she would invite in “special intervention units” of our “allies” if she saw the need. But once in, they will not leave if told to by our authorities, for they only hold allegiance to Brussels, which claims supremacy over us. With their boots on our soil, this claimed supremacy would become reality.
panmelia
on March 24, 2016 at 12:14 pm
And I hear today that a man has been arrested for’inciting racial hatred’ after recounting in a twitter that he had asked a muslimah about the Brussels bombings and she replied “Nothing to do with me”. He described this as ‘a mealy-mouthed answer’ and was arrested by the Orwellian thought police.
Apart from the sheer gob-smacking absurdity of this, since when has islam been a race? Answer: Never. Puerile plods at their worst.
This country is disappearing into Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole, but it’s not a fairy tale.
VictorMc
on March 24, 2016 at 6:02 am
The usual BBC scum. Close it down – sell it off.
josie
on March 23, 2016 at 9:38 pm
the in campaign will stop at nothing.
nigel is the only one telling the truth.
the lefties & establishment don’t like the truth.
keep going nigel & don’t let them grind you down.
we have nearly got it in the bag
panmelia
on March 23, 2016 at 6:40 pm
What a plonker that Norman whatsisname is. Where does he get this argument from that we should all sit wailing and tearing our clothes when the vile muslim killers murder people? Why is it wrong to tell the truth about what has happened and why? Only establishment idiots claim this for their own political reasons.
Once again, in the aftermath of an atrocity, it’s hush, hush, form a circle and put candles inside. Instead, the people of Brussels should be demonstrating and protesting loudly and asking how and why their useless government did nothing to protect them after the Paris serial killer was arrested. They know where these vile terrorists are. Why weren’t there mass arrests and internment?
The western European political ‘leaders’ are a bunch of weak, wishy-washy, islamophiles who aren’t up to the job of preserving our civilisation. We need another Churchill, and Nigel is the man for the job.
We can’t wait to vote leave the EU. I hope for the sake of this country that people stop listening to the continual scaremongering that Cameron continues to thrust down our throats. Nigel Farage had been the only one who tells it how it really is and gives us the true figures of the immigration problems etc but is continually cut from any airplay which is disgusting as people need to hear both sides of this massive decision. We are keeping our fingers crossed .
Nigel Farage was making a political point, not politicl point-scoring, at the most relevant possible time to underline the case he has been making for months. I suppose the interviewer would criticise someone who shouted FIRE! at the top of his voice in a smoke-filled cinema for being noisy and alarming people.
I agree with a previous contributor: get rid of the BBC in its present form.
Bravo Mr.Smith
Perhaps he doesn`t realise he has done far more with his outrageous brand of interviewing to publicise the lengths the remainders are going to vilify the LEAVERS who are beginning to express their FURY at this Jihady mob of criminals who have taken over the streets apparently unopposed by the authorities.
Notice how we will all be safer from terrorism if we remain! my eye.
Oh and there`s boy George`s budget triumphial approach – it`s all fixed to remain chaps! – hasn`t his outrageous attitude provoked his own come-uppance
They`re getting more desperate by the day.
I hope the country is taking due note.
Congratulations to all who have posted on this thread so far you have all hit the point
Dear Mr. Norman Smith, it was the bombs in Brussels that were inflammatory, not Mr. Farage’s comments on them.
Mr. Farage was quite right to warn people that in his view it was the EU’s manifest failure to control the free movement of terrorists and weapons of carnage across the EU states’ borders that was the biggest single factor leading to the tragedy in Brussels.
What was inappropriate was you trying to deflect the blame for this failure in security away from the EU towards Mr. Farage by suggesting that his remarks were inappropriate because of their timing! Why should he not remind us and the EU of the warnings he had given in the EU parliament before the attacks? And when would it then have been appropriate for him to do so again?
What was inappropriate was for you, an employee of the BBC which is funded by our license fees and our taxes and which therefore should be neutral, to be blatantly taking sides in the forthcoming referendum debate and using this tragedy as an opportunity for political point-scoring against a politician like Mr. Farage who had the guts to say what he felt needed to be said. It is his job to do so. Although you took care to argue against Mr. Farage by quoting various politicians, by hiding behind their words, in arguing for the remain cause, your attack on Mr. Farage could hardly be described as neutral. And in arguing against a point raised by Mr. Farage by stating that the UK is not in Schengen you quite clearly crossed the line.
You then continued to argue against Mr. Farage, again using someone else’s words, that “The key argument for remaining in the EU is security.”
Many think it blatantly obvious that the complete opposite is true.
With regards the EU arrest warrant, which you brought to the discussion, many believe that turning the UK into a police state by introducing such measures will do nothing to enhance our security. If it hasn’t helped Brussels, why should it help us?
The chaos and insecurity that has descended upon European countries is no accident. It is the direct result of decisions made by the EU. The current situation did not exist, to the extent that it does now, before those decisions were taken.
Some even argue that this has been intentionally done in order to create a situation which they will then use as a pretext for imposing a harsher, more authoritarian regime.
Were we to leave the EU we would be in a better position to negotiate with the EU as one country to another on matters of security.
As part of the EU we have very little influence and virtually no control. We are unable to stop them making bad decisions that cause problems, nor can we stop them imposing their solutions to those problems which may prove to be worse than the problems themselves.
Hear, hear, Michae Keal! The Brussels Broadcasting Corp becomes more blatant and disgraceful in its bias every day. Norman Smith must think that because he appears on telly daily he’s someone important, entitled to display his own views. He should remember who pays his no doubt excessive salary (not for much longer I hope) and that we expect a neutral stance from the messengers instead of using their role as a tub-thumping political platform.
Well said Nigel “The European Arrest Warrant is an ABOMINATION … no prima facie evidence… even 18 months in a foreign jail … against everything Britain has stood for ever since Magna Carta!” (from min.4:05 in the video-clip). People must realise that if we vote to Remain, it will not be only the EAW, we will also get the full nine yards of the Corpus Juris EU’s criminal code: Bye bye trial by jury, bye bye Habeas Corpus, no double jeopardy, no hearsay evidence, no prejudicial media reporting, etc etc. And it will be Hello European Prosecutor (already under construction) and Hello the lethally-armed paramilitary European Gendarmerie (already up and running and training in Vicenza, Italy). Mrs May has already said that “of course” she would invite in “special intervention units” of our “allies” if she saw the need. But once in, they will not leave if told to by our authorities, for they only hold allegiance to Brussels, which claims supremacy over us. With their boots on our soil, this claimed supremacy would become reality.
And I hear today that a man has been arrested for’inciting racial hatred’ after recounting in a twitter that he had asked a muslimah about the Brussels bombings and she replied “Nothing to do with me”. He described this as ‘a mealy-mouthed answer’ and was arrested by the Orwellian thought police.
Apart from the sheer gob-smacking absurdity of this, since when has islam been a race? Answer: Never. Puerile plods at their worst.
This country is disappearing into Alice in Wonderland’s rabbit hole, but it’s not a fairy tale.
The usual BBC scum. Close it down – sell it off.
the in campaign will stop at nothing.
nigel is the only one telling the truth.
the lefties & establishment don’t like the truth.
keep going nigel & don’t let them grind you down.
we have nearly got it in the bag
What a plonker that Norman whatsisname is. Where does he get this argument from that we should all sit wailing and tearing our clothes when the vile muslim killers murder people? Why is it wrong to tell the truth about what has happened and why? Only establishment idiots claim this for their own political reasons.
Once again, in the aftermath of an atrocity, it’s hush, hush, form a circle and put candles inside. Instead, the people of Brussels should be demonstrating and protesting loudly and asking how and why their useless government did nothing to protect them after the Paris serial killer was arrested. They know where these vile terrorists are. Why weren’t there mass arrests and internment?
The western European political ‘leaders’ are a bunch of weak, wishy-washy, islamophiles who aren’t up to the job of preserving our civilisation. We need another Churchill, and Nigel is the man for the job.