British MEP faces reprimand after calling Van Rompuy ‘damp rag’

A BRITISH MEP is to be reprimanded by the president of the European Parliament after shouting insults at Herman Van Rompuy, the man who represents the EU leaders.

Nigel Farage, the former head of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, told Van Rompuy that he had “the charisma of a damp rag” and the appearance of a “low grade bank clerk”.

MEPs objected to his insulting remarks to the former Belgian prime minister.