Who is Herman van Rompuy?

Nigel Farage says EU president Herman van Rompuy has the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.

This is the transcript of the speech:

Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group. President of Europe this long-awaited day. We were told that, when we had a President, we would see a giant global political figure: the man that would be the political leader for five hundred million people; the man that would represent all of us on the world stage; the man whose job was so important that of course you are paid more than President Obama. Well, I am afraid what we got was you. And I am sorry, but after that performance that you gave earlier I do not want to be rude, but you know, really, you have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk.
The question that I want to ask and that we are all going to ask is: who are you? I had never heard of you; nobody in Europe had ever heard of you. I would like to ask you, Mr President: who voted for you?
And what mechanism I know democracy is not popular with you lot what mechanism do the peoples of Europe have to remove you? Is this European democracy?
I sense, though, that you are competent and capable and dangerous, and
I have no doubt that it is your intention to be the quiet assassin of European democracy and of the European nation states. You appear to have a loathing for the very concept of the existence of nation states; perhaps that is because you come from Belgium, which of course is pretty much a non-country.
But since you took over, we have seen Greece reduced to nothing more than a protectorate. Sir, you have no legitimacy in this job at all, and I can say with confidence that I can speak on behalf of the majority of the British people in saying: we do not know you, we do not want you, and the sooner you are put out to grass, the better.

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[Enforcer4100]

I am from belgium and I say FUCK YOU to all the haters.

We don't start riots here in belgium. Not like our britisch "friends" in london.

Guess it is still better here than in the UK isn't?

[ukipwebmaster]

@Enforcer4100 True...The EU starts riots in Greece....

[TheBenedictStone]

@Enforcer4100 No, you just make waffles and do fuck all else.

[ukipwebmaster]

@TheBenedictStone I wish you hadn't said that as it made me think up a joke. "Have you seen a Belgian Waffle? Yes, Herman Van Rompuy"....

[xToYSoldller]

So Belgium is a "non country?" England doesn't even has the euro's freaking dipshit.

[ukipwebmaster]

@xToYSoldller "The Euro's freaking dipshit"....I couldn't agree more!

[capotegabriel]

Who FUCK is Herman van Rompuy?

[nickzta]

Belgium is a country? please name 5 historically important people coming from Belgium! 

[matthewmasters2612]

Why has 'Nigel Farage Harangues EU President Herman Van Rumpuy' been deleted off of YouTube? Was approaching 1 million views? Are the dictators removing You tube vids?

[Mortenhendriksen]

@xToYSoldller yeah because they have at least some kind of intelligence compared to the nations using the euro.

[MrBad94]

@dpdvatika Μην είσαι τόσο μαλάκας ρε φίλε,γίνεσαι ντροπή για το ελληνικό έθνος...

[dpdvatika]

Van Rompuy is a very smart economist/philosopher, that actually many know and want to quietly carry on dealing very successfully with the parasitic hyenas and all the presstitutes - especially in the "united" king-con-dom! As for that little treacherous lackey Nigel Fuckfacefarage spewing his pathetic, puerile poison "trying to undermine" his authority, Van Rompuy, to his credit, just sits there not reacting to all the crap, sometimes looking at that pathetic little shit with a knowing smile...

[fetishofmashroomz94]

Farage is completely right, it wasn't long ago when this mad-looking mr van Rompuy claimed patriotism and loving our nation to be the greatest enemy of Europe. No, van Rompuy, YOU ARE!

[mwangolatrue]

@Enforcer4100

There is no reason to hate Belgium, and if there was no Van Rumpuy I would probably never remember that your country existed.

Our only problem is that you left Van Rumpuy out of his confinement facility for ambitious, incompetent political hacks.

[888Valkyrie]

@romiboise better a British slut than an EU whore!

Have the self confidence to be your own person, do yourself a favour, do democracy a favour, listen a bit more if your ego will permit and when you speak do so with less undemocratic EU arrogance.

The EU will pay the piper one day. It's power has been gained through stealth and deceit without the consent of the people. I put it to you that those who make law cannot be divorced from the ballot box as much as they are. It is disgusting.

[888Valkyrie]

@Enforcer4100 EU whores are all the same .... bend over and take it from the EU and anyone who doesn't like the diktat is a 'hater'.

You are guilty of betraying democracy, you are guilty of selling your children in to the bondage and shackles of the unelected EU.

What is the EU's problem with referendums? What is their problem with allowing the people to decide?

Their, and your, obsession with central unaccountable power will end in tears.

Tame the ego and listen to the people!

[TheMrChugger]

@Enforcer4100 He wasn't insulting Belgium as a country but the political status currently in Belgium.