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.
NIGEL FARAGEBefore, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it’s about everyday lives.
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Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.
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But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.
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Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it’s about everyday lives.
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It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.
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We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
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Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
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It’s about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can’t find work. It’s about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.
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[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.
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We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
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I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.
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I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.
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It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself.
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I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
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When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.
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Greece isn’t a democracy now it’s run through a troika – three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can’t do.
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There are two completely different Britains. There’s London, and there’s the rest of Britain.
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British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.
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The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg – and there simply aren’t enough lifeboats to go round.
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This is taking place inside Europe. This is taking place inside a once great nation. The nation that invented democracy. We are on the edge of total social breakdown. And frankly, as far as the euro is concerned and the austerity measures are concerned, the medicine is killing the patient.
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Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.
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I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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While we’re members of the European Union, we don’t have an immigration policy. We can’t have an immigration policy. It’s a charade for people to pretend we do.
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Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?
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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
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This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.
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There’s unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.
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