wing i'm joined by tommy robinson in london he is the leader of the english defense league and in strasbourg we cross edward mortimer he's a senior vice president and chief program officer at the salzburg global seminar and another member of our crosstalk team ill in the hunger all right gentlemen this is cross talk you both have difference of a points of view i'd like to go to edward first in strasbourg we had a poll that came out a few days ago that madame le pen is ahead in the polls for the presidential poll in france next year she's beating the president others will even say if they vote were held now they would vote for her also if i go to a mail online british publication here and that headline is half of britons would vote for far right parties if they gave up violence and if i could continue a total of forty eight percent said they would definitely support or consider supporting a party with such an agenda if it shunned violence and fascist imagery what is going on all across europe why do you get such a great appeal to the right and so dramatic. well i think that europe is feeling

who has been cheering about anything coming out of washington the last several years other than strasbourgwas a pitcher with the national baseball team there hasn't been much to cheer about but people of their high school, their college teams so the people said we want to change. they see that what is going on in washington by any measurement whether it is debt or the lack of jobs, but policies in washington with her it is bailout under president bush or the health care monstrosity or stimulus spending that doesn't create jobs or counterproductive energy policy none of that is working so the voters, the people, the fans, the ticket holders to speak, the owners of the government said we want to change and they made that change and of those elected the number one thing to do is keep their promises, keep their promises they made to the people and start getting our country back in the right direction. >> do you miss being in their reena? >> i do from time to time. we've been involved in the governor's race last year and hoping of congressional candidates from the southwest virginia to the beac

we need a government that is prepared to send people up to brussels or strasbourg or anyone else.we are armed with a referendum given by the irish people, saying that deal is not acceptable. we are getting a government who is going in with the same deal at the last government. the second point is this. the promises which were made about cronyism and an end to the on that issue, the program for government is silent. we have a vague promise and a deluded promise that there will be a substantiated reduction in crime goes. where are the 145 in the program for government and the promise to reduce or abolish 145? is extensive reduction is not good enough. on top of that, we no longer see any pledges to change the appointments, to state bodies, state agencies, which were promised before the election, maybe this is just an admission. my fear is this, that whereas the government is a welcomed relief in terms of its honesty, its integrity, in terms of it being an end to a dirt. the political rule in ireland. i fear that the promises of change will be empty and they are already disappearing.