Farage is brilliant, always liked him, for years and years he has been giving speeches like the one today. Here is one of my favourites. I have even typed a transcript in case you have rubbish internet.
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“Good morning Mr Van Rompuy. You’ve been in office for one year and in that time the whole edifice is beginning to crumble. There’s chaos; the moneys running out; I should thank you, you should perhaps be the pin up boy of the Euro Sceptic Movement.
But just look around this chamber this morning, just look at these faces; look at the fear; look at the anger; poor old Barroso here looks like he has seen a ghost. You know, they are beginning to understand that the game is up. And yet in their desperation to preserve their dream, they want to remove any remaining traces of democracy from the system. And its pretty clear that none of you have learnt anything.
You know when you yourself Mr Van Rompuy say that the Euro has brought us stability, I suppose I could applaud you for having a sense of humour, but isn’t this really just the bunker mentality.
You know, your fanaticism is out in the open you talked about the fact it was a lie, to believe that the nation state could exist in a 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century globalised world. Well that may be true in the case of Belgium, who have not had a government for six months.
But for the rest of us, right across the member state in this Union, and perhaps this is why we see the fear in the faces, increasingly people are saying we don’t want that flag [points to EU flag]; We don’t want that anthem; We don’t want this political class; We want the whole thing consigned to the dustbin of history.
And we had the Greek tragedy earlier on this year and now we have the situation in Ireland. Now I know the stupidity and greed of Irish politicians has a lot to do with this. They should never ever have joined the Euro, they suffered with low interest rates, a false boom and a massive bust. But look at your response to them.
What they are being told, as their government is collapsing, that it will be inappropriate for them to have a general election. In fact Commissioner Rehn here said they had to agree their budget first, before they would be allowed to have a general election .
Just who the hell do you people think you are! You are very very dangerous people indeed. Your obsession in creating this Euro state means that you are happy to destroy democracy. You appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor. Millions must suffer so that your Euro dream can continue.
Well it won’t work. Because its Portugal next, with their debt levels of 325% of GDP, they are the next ones on the list. And after that I suspect it will be Spain. And the bailout for Spain will be 7 times the size of Ireland, and that moment all of the bailout money has gone. There won’t be anymore.
But its even more serious than economics. If you rob them of their identity, if you rob them of their democracy then all that is left is nationalism and violence. I can only hope and pray that the Euro Project is destroyed by the markets before that really happens.