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he had "all the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk." "Who are you? I"d never heard of you, nobody in Europe had ever heard of you," Farage said. His comments on the EU"s new leadership were so vivid that he was immediately labeled enemy number one in the Belgian media.In addition he dismissed Belgium as a "non-country." Belgian Prime Minister Yves Leterme even complained to the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek.
But all attempts to make Farage apologize only made things worse for Belgium. When Belgian Socialist Party MEP Veronica Kaiser tried in a gentle "womanly" way to remind him of his manners, he said that, although she was certainly "very sweet and rather pretty", he would not apologize for Belgium being "a completely artificial construction and a mistake."
Poor old Belgium, whatever has it done to deserve this...
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