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.
NIGEL FARAGEI admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
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British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It’s appalling.
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No deals with the Tories; it’s war.
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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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Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?
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There are two completely different Britains. There’s London, and there’s the rest of Britain.
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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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Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.
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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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It’s a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
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I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.
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My opponents are the people who gave up our borders.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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 frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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[European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.
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I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
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We know the costs of Europe. What are the benefits?
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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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Ukip policies are common-sense policies.
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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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It’s the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that’s failed.
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