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10/21/14, "Farage thanks Barroso for exposing Cameron's deception," UKIPmeps.org, Press Release
"Nigel Farage thanks European Commission President Barroso for making
it clear that David Cameron is wrong when he says we can restrict free
movement and still remain members of the EU – Cameron “was deceiving the
British people and you made it clear” - VIDEO
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Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP and co-president of the European of
Freedom and Direct Democracy Group (EFDD) in the European Parliament,
was back in his front row seat at the parliament after his eurosceptic
EFDD group defeated attempts by the eurofanatic leadership of the
parliament
to disband them and take away their speaking rights.
The victory of the group meant that the German Socialist President of
the Parliament, Martin Schulz, who last week was accused by Nigel Farage
of “manipulative backroom politics of the worst kind,” was forced to
introduce “EFDD Mr Farage” to address the parliament. Farage rose to
reply to a speech by outgoing President of the European Commission, José
Manuel Barroso.
The UKIP leader thanked outgoing Commission President Barroso “for
appearing on British television, thank you for confirming that the real
fantasist isn’t you, it’s David Cameron, the British prime minister, who
pretends that we can restrict free movement and remain members of the
European Union.”
He
told Barroso: “You made it clear that he was wrong, he was deceiving
the British people, and you made it clear that you were the boss, and
not him, and for that, I thank you and wish you
a very happy retirement
indeed.”
He called Barroso “a fantasist” because of his analogy of the EU to an
empire: “I view you as a fantasist, but at no point have I ever, ever
implied that you were dishonest, you’re not, you’re very honest indeed. I
remember you telling Martin Callanan, who led the Conservative group
here for some time, as the Conservative party under David Cameron’s
leadership became more eurosceptic with British parliamentary each
by-election, and you telling Martin Callanan, ‘Look, don’t try and be
like UKIP because actually the voters will go for the real thing,’
and
you were right, we won the European elections.”
Farage told Barroso he regretted what the EU had become: “I don’t think
anybody doubts that those that got together in the 1950s after two
ruinous world wars, with the genuine intention of getting the French
and Germans to sit round the table, talk together and trade together,
no one doubts that was the right thing to do. But it’s morphed and
changed into something else.” via Free Republic
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