The Metropolis

Nigel Farage is angry and wrong. Again.

Mike Pollitt | Friday 4 November, 2011 11:23

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Lovable UKIP leader Nigel Farage is absolutely livid at David Cameron for letting the EU stifle The City through over-regulation. Because, you know, it was too much regulation that got us all into this mess.

“…a blizzard of EU regulations that led to a massive growth in the compliance culture. Everyone moaned about it but no-one worried too much. All that has changed.”

He says they’re worried now. Well, tough shit. To see why, compare his fulmination with this anonymous female stockbroker, interviewed in The Guardian for their fascinating series on women in finance:

“On the trading floor, men would chew paper into little papier-mache balls and try to shoot them up my skirt. They’d actually reach into the aisle to throw them. If this happened now, you could sue. Those times were different.”

Regulations can be good!

Farage rant: Londonlovesbusiness

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