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He didn't so much sell out as buy in to politics. Remember, he was a city boy, trading commodities. If he'd stuck with that, he'd likely have raked in a lot more than an MEP's salary, even with the expenses.
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Just to correct you, we know how much he earned and he was better off as an MEP. Farage Ltd (commodity brokers) became insolvent and you can check company records. He earned significantly more as an MEP than at Farage Ltd.
However, he did well as a broker in the days prior to Big Bang and the EU. Back then, it was about which school you went to and business was done over a pint or 10. It was often about who you knew, what school you went to, not what you knew.
When markets opened up, he just couldn't cope. Smart foreigners arrived who started doing deals on merit and analysis. Farage's old-school style (bit of banter and bullshit over a pint) just didn't wash and as the world changed, Farage hated it. There are lots of quotes, the apocryphal one in the lift with the head of the LSE etc... where Farage bemoans the ruining of the best drinking club in the City.
I remember the invasion of the US, the Eurotrash and saw how business changed almost overnight. I wasn't smart enough to understand what was going on at the time but saw the old dinosaurs disappear and was glad. Their style was to keep people in their place and if you didn't go to the right school or had the right accent, you weren't allowed into their club. Farage was part of that. ____________________ FZR400 (blown engine), ZXR750 (blown engine), ZX6R (accident), CBR600 which had engine issues after which I learned to change gear..., CBR900, CBR924 (stolen), CB600, CB1300 (everything blew up), BMW K1300GT (written off, hit from rear while stationary), Bandit 1250 for a couple of months, Triumph Sprint ST 1050 (nicked) and somewhere in there, I wrote off a Ducati 748 at Cadwell. |
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Just to correct you, we know how much he earned and he was better off as an MEP. Farage Ltd (commodity brokers) became insolvent and you can check company records. He earned significantly more as an MEP than at Farage Ltd.
However, he did well as a broker in the days prior to Big Bang and the EU. Back then, it was about which school you went to and business was done over a pint or 10. It was often about who you knew, what school you went to, not what you knew.
When markets opened up, he just couldn't cope. Smart foreigners arrived who started doing deals on merit and analysis. Farage's old-school style (bit of banter and bullshit over a pint) just didn't wash and as the world changed, Farage hated it. There are lots of quotes, the apocryphal one in the lift with the head of the LSE etc... where Farage bemoans the ruining of the best drinking club in the City.
I remember the invasion of the US, the Eurotrash and saw how business changed almost overnight. I wasn't smart enough to understand what was going on at the time but saw the old dinosaurs disappear and was glad. Their style was to keep people in their place and if you didn't go to the right school or had the right accent, you weren't allowed into their club. Farage was part of that. |
So when are you releasing his autobiography? ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Again truly glad those days are over |
You have no idea, kiddo, no clue of what it was like back then. Today, go to school, get good grades and get a great job. Back in the day, do the same and get told to fuck off despite the great grades.
One guy I knew was actually laughed at in the interview despite great grades. The reason? Because he was working class and he had the temerity to try to mix it with the posh boys. His dad worked in a service station and the interviewers physically laughed at him. Fuckers. Ditto, a couple of good mates of mine.
When markets opened up, life changed. Sure, daddy's rich kid gets a leg up but the smartest and the best get their shot, irrespective of where they come from. That's the difference I see.
Or saw... I like opportunity, it's better than the opposite. And a rising tide raises all ships which is what I depend on. I'm not smart enough to make it without a buoyant economy which is why I'm anti-Brexit: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/autumn-statement-122bn-black-hole-philip-hammond-brexit-uk-national-debt-a7435201.html ____________________ FZR400 (blown engine), ZXR750 (blown engine), ZX6R (accident), CBR600 which had engine issues after which I learned to change gear..., CBR900, CBR924 (stolen), CB600, CB1300 (everything blew up), BMW K1300GT (written off, hit from rear while stationary), Bandit 1250 for a couple of months, Triumph Sprint ST 1050 (nicked) and somewhere in there, I wrote off a Ducati 748 at Cadwell.
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Equality of opportunity, nowt wrong with that.
Back on topic, is it possible to get yourself impeached before gaining the title? Wonder if we can get odds on that ____________________ Honda Varadero >> Triumph Speed Four >> Honda CBR1100xx |
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Sload wrote: | Equality of opportunity, nowt wrong with that. |
Tell that to the equality of outcome progressives. Still, that should be the last we hear of that nonsense in the States.
Sload wrote: | Back on topic, is it possible to get yourself impeached before gaining the title? Wonder if we can get odds on that |
Could be, but their establishment tends to kow tow to their erstaz monarch, just as we'll doggedly pretend that King Charles the Green isn't a skip licker when he finally gets the gig.
That racist judge assigned to the Trump University case isn't rising any higher up the judiciary, that's for sure. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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I genuinely wonder if any 'donors' are calling Clan Clinton to demand a refund. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Apparently the Russians made him win now.
WTF is it with sore losers in Western society lately?
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The elections were rigged, just against our lord and dankest Pepe master.
Against Bernie (just one email, check the rest if you don't believe me)
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/5571
Michigan vote fraud.:
https://archive.is/Xi53X
The latest narravtive regarding Ivan isn't new, they were saying that Wikileaks were associated with Russia in an effort to discredit them after the DNC leaks. |
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I love the "requirement" to have photo-ID, unless you sign a piece of paper saying that you really are who you say you are, totes srs tho.
What would the consequences be of doing so fraudulently, when axiomatically they only know who you aren't?
Given the way things are going with voting in culturally enriched countries, I'm thinking we should actually take a leaf out of the Middle Eastron vote-book, bin absentee voting, and use indelible ink to ensure one man person, one vote. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 108 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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