“The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.”

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I’m not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

The European Union’s finished. It doesn’t work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.

I am disgusted at the way May has been speaking. The EU nationals living in the UK came here legally and they have protected rights.

Whatever the polls do between now and then, winning is what matters.

In Britain, we have an open door to half a billion people. We still retain the ability to decide who comes from the rest of the world. But we’ve effectively shut down the rest of the world because 4,000 people a week are coming from the E.U.

We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

Having established that good ideas do indeed come in from the cold, start on the fringes and become mainstream, can we make any predictions about what the next move will be?

If there’s labour shortages, we issue work permits. It’s as simple as that.

And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don’t quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don’t know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he’s out of politics.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg – and there simply aren’t enough lifeboats to go round.

We vote to leave, we get rid of this Prime Minister – dishonest Dave [Cameron] – and we get a better Prime Minister.

When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Parliament should start earlier in the day and finish earlier. Otherwise I love it.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

The idea that Parliament somehow wasn’t going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong.

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.

I know I’m not a showy politician. I don’t go drinking in parliament’s bars. I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.

I look forward to continuing the debate about Britain’s future – in Parliament and across the country.