The Ukip leader won boos in the Brussels chamber by insulting his parliamentary colleagues. Did he have a point?
Nigel Farage returned to the European parliament on Tuesday and delivered a withering speech to the chamber he had been trying for 17 years to leave. The address began inauspiciously with Farage telling fellow MEPs: “You’re not laughing now.”
But it was Farage’s comment about his colleagues never having done a “proper job” that attracted the most boos, and a rebuke from the chairman.
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