Nigel Farage's anti-immigration chant strikes a chord with US Republicans [View all]

[LeftishBrit]

Only at a gathering of America’s most dyed-in-the-wool conservatives would the otherwise obscure leader of the UK Independence party attract groupies. But apart from the fact he is clutching a glass of red wine rather than risk the local beer, Nigel Farage is in his element at the Gaylord National Convention Center outside Washington DC.


Posing for selfies with young Republican activists; poking fun at Europeans and pouring scorn on multiculturalism, this thorn-in-the-side of the British political establishment has been invited to the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to provide a slightly spikier alternative to its traditional Tory representative – and he doesn’t disappoint.


“We have a fifth column living within our communities, a fifth column that hates us and wants to destroy us and if we are going win this great battle – for our liberty, for our democracy, for our civilisation and our culture – we are going to have to start standing up for our Judeo-Christian values,” begins Farage at a drinks reception that picks up where he left off on Fox News the day before, when he claimed the mosques of Britain had been infiltrated by criminal hate preachers.


South Carolina congressman Jeff Duncan is so smitten with the overall mix of unabashed political incorrectness, he tells Farage: “I’m American Ukip.”

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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/27/nigel-farage-charms-us-republicans-ukip