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.
NIGEL FARAGEIn 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.
More Nigel Farage Quotes
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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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I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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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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We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
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The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.
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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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It’s about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It’s about health and safety regulations and green fines.
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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.
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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.
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It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
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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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I have been called a great many things in my time – that’s politics.
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We wouldn’t want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We’d be rich!
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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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