Nigel Farage - Britain's Ron Paul

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British Ron Pauls?

Nigel Farage - Monetarist, populist, an ally to our movement but ideologically distant from us, pro socialized healthcare, flip flops on foreign policy but opposed Iraq, was mixed on Libya and changes his view depending on the audience on Iran, quite pro-civil liberties but flip flopped on the burqa ban, now claims he opposes it, allegations of corruption have been made against him by other UKIP members

Daniel Hannan - Genuine liberty-leaning fiscal conservative, pro-Austrian economics, anti socialized healthcare, moderate on foreign intervention (opposed Iraq and Libya, supports Iran sanctions), good on civil liberties, endorsed Ron Paul 2012 and 2008

Douglas Carswell - Another liberty-leaning fiscal conservative, probably the most well known proponent of Austrian economics in the UK, anti socialized healthcare, more interventionist on foreign intervention (opposed Iraq but voted for Libya intervention and Iran sanctions), good on civil liberties, endorsed Ron Paul 2012

Steve Baker - Fiscal conservative, pro Austrian economics, anti socialized healthcare, between Carswell and Hannan on foreign policy (voted for Libya but strongly opposed Iraq and opposes Iran sanctions), good on civil liberties, fan of Ron Paul and his books since '08, but did not endorse anyone

John Baron - Fiscally conservative but not as much so as Carswell or Hannan, not pro-Austrian, anti socialized healthcare, excellent on foreign intervention (voted against Iraq, sole Conservative vote against Libya intervention, voted against Iran sanctions, wants UK out of middle-eastern affairs), good on civil liberties, has never mentioned Ron Paul

I would vote for any of these guys for MP over a typical leftist, but Farage is definitely not the best, even out of what little they have in the UK. I wish there was someone who was like Baron on foreign policy but like Baker/Carswell/Hannan on domestic policy.

 

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Not even in the same league as Dr Paul

 

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Also, in my experience, so far as libertarianism in Europe goes, France is one of the worst, Britain not too far behind, Spain is improving somewhat, Italy is okay, Germany is somewhat decent (FDP), and Poland (eastern Europe in general actually) quite good.

Not sure what you mean by Spain. I didn't know there even was a libertarian party there.

Italy is bad. The "Libertarian Movement" party there doesn't even contest elections. The German FDP is not a libertarian party (the Swiss FDP is more libertarian though). The Party of Reason is the only genuine libertarian party in Germany and they aren't doing great

Poland is a little better, the Congress of the New Right got 1.06% of the vote in the last election.
Freedom and Solidarity in Slovakia are doing the best out of all the libertarian parties in Europe right now, got 12.14% in the last election, but they aren't pro-Austrian economics, more beltway libertarian.

 

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lol, at least you Brits have some somewhat libertarian people in power. In Canada, our "important libertarians" are limited to a lone Ontario tory (in Sudbury I think) and a guy in jail in the States for smoking weed. Oh, and some Alberta conservative who did something disgraceful and switched to "Civil libertarian".

Peter Goldring resigned because he refused to be breathalyzed, he didn't really do anything disgraceful. Him and MP Rona Ambrose are not pro-Austrian, but self-identify as libertarian. They are probably beltway libertarians.

Scott Reid is the guy you're talking about in Ontario, he's a real Austrian libertarian and MP for Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington.
There are a couple of other Austrian libertarians holding elected office in Canada - Ontario Conservative MPP Randy Hillier and Alberta Wildrose MLA (and Wildrose Party leader) Danielle Smith.

 

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Nigel Farage is a heavy hitter in the most important liberty issue of our time - monetary liberty. There is no one in the EU who has taken on the banking cartel AND the ongoing cartelization of EU political organization with the blunt candor that he has done.

 

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Nigel Farage is a heavy hitter in the most important liberty issue of our time - monetary liberty. There is no one in the EU who has taken on the banking cartel AND the ongoing cartelization of EU political organization with the blunt candor that he has done.

But he refuses to tackle the banking cartel in his own nation that are the people controlling his country's domestic policy.. He's normally very pro Bank of England in the European Parliament. The most criticism I've seen from him of his own nation's monetary policy was a single tweet, where he said a one word answer, "yes", to someone who asked whether he supports more transparency at the BofE.