UKIP's Nigel Farage Right on the Money says Fox News' Glenn Beck

One of America's most controversial TV star, news commentator Glenn Beck, has given Nigel Farage a tremendous boost on his programme following the UKIP Leader's speech to the European Parliament last week.

Beck, who hosts a top-rating Fox TV show, said after showing a video of the speech: "That is remarkable. I mean, that sounds like me up there. That is remarkable.

"There's something that is going on in Europe that I find fascinating. Europe is on the brink.. and I want to play this amazing speech given on the floor of parliament, the European Union parliament, and this is a British European Union parliamentary member and he is reading the EU the riot act.

"I think this guy is right on the money"

In his speech, Nigel warned the Parliament: "You are very, very dangerous people indeed. Your obsession with creating this Euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy. You appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor. Untold millions must suffer so that your Euro dream can continue.

"But it won't work because it's Portugal next, with their debt levels of 325% of GDP, they are the next ones on the list. And after that I suspect it will be Spain. And the bailout for Spain would be seven times the size of Ireland, and at that moment all of the bailout money has gone. There won't be any more.

"But it's even more serious than economics.

"Because if you rob people of their identity, if you rob them of their democracy, then all they are left with is nationalism and violence. I can only hope and pray that the Euro project is destroyed by the markets before that really happens."

The speech has not only touched a nerve across the Atlantic, it has gone viral on YouTube with nearly half a million hits in total to date.