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American conservatives find new British darling in Ukip leader Nigel Farage
Source: The Guardian
American conservatives find new British darling in Ukip leader Nigel Farage
He may be, in the estimation of some, the ‘most adored’ global
politician not named Netanyahu, but Farage is an unlikely heir
to Margaret Thatcher
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Tuesday 28 June 2016 15.20 BST
Once, young conservatives in the US looked across the ocean to Margaret Thatcher. Now the model is Nigel Farage.
The garrulous chain-smoker, known to be fond of a pint, has become the model of transatlantic conservatism to many on the right. Farage even spoke at the influential CPAC conference in 2015, where a committed crowd of conservative activists stuck around at the end of a long day of speeches to receive him rapturously.
In a time when the American right is increasingly hawkish on immigration, Farage is, according to the rightwing talkshow host Steve Deace, “probably the global politician not named Netanyahu most adored by American conservatives”.
Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, raved about Farage’s appearance in 2015 to the Guardian. He praised the UK Independence party (Ukip) leader as a “very smart, very funny man and he can turn a phrase very well”. Schneider said Farage’s opinion that “the people of Great Britain need to be able to govern themselves and that national sovereignty is a very important thing” was a “traditional conservative belief”.
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He may be, in the estimation of some, the ‘most adored’ global
politician not named Netanyahu, but Farage is an unlikely heir
to Margaret Thatcher
Ben Jacobs in Washington
Tuesday 28 June 2016 15.20 BST
Once, young conservatives in the US looked across the ocean to Margaret Thatcher. Now the model is Nigel Farage.
The garrulous chain-smoker, known to be fond of a pint, has become the model of transatlantic conservatism to many on the right. Farage even spoke at the influential CPAC conference in 2015, where a committed crowd of conservative activists stuck around at the end of a long day of speeches to receive him rapturously.
In a time when the American right is increasingly hawkish on immigration, Farage is, according to the rightwing talkshow host Steve Deace, “probably the global politician not named Netanyahu most adored by American conservatives”.
Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, raved about Farage’s appearance in 2015 to the Guardian. He praised the UK Independence party (Ukip) leader as a “very smart, very funny man and he can turn a phrase very well”. Schneider said Farage’s opinion that “the people of Great Britain need to be able to govern themselves and that national sovereignty is a very important thing” was a “traditional conservative belief”.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/28/nigel-farage-cpac-american-conservatives