Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away – he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
NIGEL FARAGEMaybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?
More Nigel Farage Quotes
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Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?
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Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
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Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
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I’m not for sale, neither is UKIP.
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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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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.
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We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won’t bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
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In Britain, what we’ve done is say to 485 million people, ‘You can all come, every one of you. You’re unemployed? You’ve got a criminal record? Please come. You’ve got 19 children? Please come.’ We’ve lost any sense of perspective on this.
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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.
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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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If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
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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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The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.
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I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we’ve seen in over 70 years.
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I know there’s an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.
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