Having as the object of his rant Nigel Farage was a brave choice though and his hope that his efforts would receive wide interest on the television showed commendable optimism. It is a pity that he fails to recognise that he is hopelessly outclassed by UKIP’s leader. I had a look at the number of times Nigel Farage’s most popular rant was viewed on YouTube and found that he scored 1,092,969 while Mr. Verhofstadt’s best effort has only been seen only 103,505 times. One could say that since Verhofstadt’s rant was more recent the viewing numbers might increase but his rant about the UK government of a year ago has only been seen 18,612 times.

As for the actual content, he talked of the salary ‘we’ are paying to Mr. Farage. A foolish thing to say, if the ‘we’ is the EU it is nonsensical, the EU does not have any money other than the contributions of tax from member states and the only two significant net annual contributors are Germany and the UK; it is ‘we’ (Britons) who are paying a disproportionately high part of Mr. Verhofstadt’s salary and this Briton does not feel that he is getting good value for money.

The former PM of Belgium’s suggestion that Nigel Farage should attend the Fisheries Committee was absurd. UKIP MEP’s enter the EU Parliament on a completely different basis to Europhile ones, they are there to extricate the UK from the EU not to sit around giving consequence to the people who have made such a comprehensive mess of the fishing industry. They state this on their campaign leaflets and they never promised dutiful attendance at committees and in the Parliament, the same Parliament which seems to have been very badly attended on the video clip. Barely half of the MEPs seem to have turned up! Perhaps the Europhiles should consider their own attendance.