Neil Farage says EU is group of common criminals, have created tide of human misery, need to be swept away

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4/17/13, "Farage Unleashed: "You Are Common Criminals"," Zero Hedge

"Years ago, Mrs Thatcher recognized the truth behind the European Project," UKIP's Nigel Farage reminds his European Parliament 'colleagues', "she saw that it was about taking away democracy from nation states and handing that power to largely unaccountable people."...Farage blasts Europe's leadership, "this European Union is the new communism"..."resorting to the level of common criminals and stealing people's money"..."creating a tide of human misery and the sooner it is swept away the better."...

Full transcript (video)

"Years ago, Mrs Thatcher recognised the truth behind the European Project. She saw that it was about taking away democracy from nation states and handing that power to largely unaccountable people

Knowing as she did that the euro would not work she saw that this was a very dangerous design. Now we in UKIP take that same view and I tried over the years in this parliament to predict what the next moves would be as the euro disaster unfolded.
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But not even me, in my most pessimistic of speeches would have imagined, Mr Rehn, that you and others in the Troika would resort to the level of common criminals and steal money from peoples' bank accounts in order to keep propped up this total failure that is the euro.
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You even tried to take money away from the small investors in direct breach of the promise you made back in 2008.
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Well the precedent has been set, and if we look at countries like Spain where business bankruptcies are up 45% year on year, we can see what your plan is to deal with the other bailouts as they come.

I must say, the message this sends out to investors is very loud and clear: Get your money out of the Eurozone before they come for you.
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What you have done in Cyprus is you actually sounded the death knell of the euro. Nobody in the international community will have confidence in leaving their money there.
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And how ironic to see the Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev compare your actions and say, ' I can only compare it to some of the decisions taken by the Soviet authorities.'
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And then we have a new German proposal that says that actually what we ought to do is confiscate some of the value of peoples' properties in the southern Mediterranean eurozone states.
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This European Union is the new communism. It is power without limits. It is creating a tide of human misery and the sooner it is swept away the better.
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But what of this place, what of the parliament? This parliament has the ability to hold the Commission to account.  I have put down a motion of censure debate on the table. I wonder whether any of you have the courage to recognise it and to support it. I very much doubt that.

And I am minded that there is a new Mrs Thatcher in Europe and he is called Frits Bolkenstein. And he has said of this parliament - remember he is a former Commissioner: 'It is not representative anymore for the Dutch or European citizen. The European Parliament is living out a federal fantasy which is no longer sustainable.'""

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UKIP=UK Independent Party

3/1/13, "Ukip leader Nigel Farage: Eastleigh by-election result is 'sign of things to come'," UK Telegraph, James Kirkup

"Ukip stunned the Conservatives by beating them into third place in Eastleigh and came within 2,000 votes of the Liberal Democrats, who retained the seat. 
 
Mr Farage’s party took only 4 per cent of the vote in Eastleigh at the 2010 general election. Its candidate Diane James won 28 per cent of the votes in the by-election, a total of 11,571 votes.

The Ukip result, which will raise fresh doubts about the Conservatives’ election strategy and David Cameron’s leadership, is a sign of things to come, Mr Farage said....

Ukip took votes from all three main parties, he said: "People are sick and tired of having three social democrat parties that are frankly indistinguishable from each other."

Mr Farage added that Ukip is reaping the benefits of its focus on issues like immigration: “We are the party prepared to talk about and confront difficult issues that everyone else wanted to brush under the carpet.”

David Cameron in January promised to hold an in/out referendum on the European Union if he is re-elected in 2015, a promise that some Tories had hoped would undermine Ukip.

But Mr Farage’s party fought its Eastleigh campaign focussing on the prospect of mass migration from Romania and Bulgaria next year. Under EU rules, nationals from those countries will have full rights to live and work in the UK from 2014.

Mr Farage said Ukip will continue to raise the issue in May’s local elections, next year’s European elections, and the 2015 general election.

"If you want to have a managed migration policy, you cannot remain a member of the European Union,” he said. 

"My prediction is that over the next year or two, as the European debate gathers pace in this country, the issue of immigration and border controls will become the absolute key to the whole thing.”" 


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