election cycle if any candidate, Republican or Democrat, would have welcomed foreign help the way Trump has?

It is downright nutso.

Peace

is that both Trump and Farage are xenophobic nutcases supposedly obsessed with their countries' sovereignty and independence.

Or could it be that 'sovereignty' was never the issue for Farage or Trump and it's just an excuse for fascism?

Never let the RW media persuade you to vote to fuck up your own country.

in the sense that all fascists seem to be hyper nationalists who are always very concerned with 'national sovereignty' (and interference in our 'internal affairs'). Possibly this is true because they know that liberal countries will protest what the fascists want to do.

It is true also that there are some liberals and moderates who are also hyper-nationalists but all fascists are.

I think support for Brexit from the right makes sense. The EU has relatively strong regulations on labor rights, business regulation, environmental standards and immigration among other things. These are all areas the British right would rather see governed by a UK national government over which conservatives have almost total control at the moment and for the foreseeable future.

Similarly, support for Trump from the American right makes sense. He has proposed cutting taxes for the rich and corporations, slashing business regulations, believes that climate change is a hoax among many other things.

So it's not surprising that Farage is doing this.

British politics has gone very badly wrong and things in this country are going to get a lot worse.

Things aren't going so well.

Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) prohibits any foreign national from contributing, donating or spending funds in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States, either directly or indirectly. It is also unlawful to help foreign nationals violate that ban or to solicit, receive or accept contributions or donations from them. Persons who knowingly and willfully engage in these activities may be subject to fines and/or imprisonment.

If not, then yes, it was legal.

donations; and he stopped short of ACTUALLY saying 'I support Donald Trump'; he just said that he opposed Trump's opponent, which in a 2-horse race comes to the same thing, but probably gets around the laws on the subject.

What surprises me more is why Trump's voter base, presumably a fairly xenophobic group without much enthusiasm for foreign countries, would be expected to take such an interest in Brexit! Why would American nationalists be so interested in whether a country thousands of miles away chooses to fuck up its own economy by withdrawing, after 40 years of interconnections, and without an alternative plan, from the nearest large trading organization? Are they confusing the EU with the UN?; or is it 'Look! Here's someone travelling thousands of miles just to kiss the rump of our Fearless Leader!?'; or is it, as I fear, 'Wow! This British guy hates immigrants and liberals just as much as we do!'?

BTW, Liam Fox, a British politician, another prominent Brexiter, was active in the Romney campaign in 2012, and I was and am really very puzzled as to how that could be legal in either of our countries.

And feel comfortable with people of other cultures.

such 'political correctness' if you just give him the chance.

Thanks, horribly.

really no morals for this man, ZERO!

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-obama-idUSKCN0XH2U6

Anti corporations, anti-globalism, grass roots campaigning door to door, etc. I would have some respect for them if any of it were actually true. Trump's company is a global corporation that screws its workers and contractors and makes cheap products overseas in low cost low safety regulation countries.

I wonder if they had simultaneous translation?

owing to the fact that he ran away from his leadership post so quickly after he 'won' the brexit vote campaign.

... sitting in a tree.

vote said "My bad, I lied to you about the amount of savings that could be routed to healthcare. OOOPSIE!"

Typical.

This country Brexited over 200 years ago. Take your ass back to Britain and while you're at it take Hair Brain with you.

We have no choice but to take back Nigel, but you can keep Trump; we have enough problems of our own at the moment without him!