…on the EU.  In a speech given on the floor of European Union Parliament, this parliamentary member from the UK gives them hell:

Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party

Nigel Farage promotes leaving the European Union

“You’ve been in office for one year, and in that time the whole edifice is beginning to crumble.  This chaos…  the money’s running out.

I should thank you.

You should perhaps be the pinup boy of the Euro-skeptic movement.  But just look around the chamber this morning.  Just look at these faces.  Look at the fear.  Look at the anger.  Poor old Barroso here looks like he’s 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 it’s pretty clear that none of you have learned 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 humor, bu isn’t this really just the bunker mentality?  You know, your fanaticism is out in the open.

You talked about the fact that it was a lie to believe that the nation state could exist in a 21st century globalized world.  Well, that may be true in the case of Belgium, who haven’t had a government for six months.  But for the rest of us right across every 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, we don’t want the 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 that 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’s collapsing, is that it would be inappropriate for them to have a general election.  In fact, Commissioner Wren here said they had to agree to their budget first before they would be allowed to have a general election.

Just who the hell do you think you people are?  you are very, very dangerous people indeed.  Your obsession with creating this Euro state means that you’re happy to destroy democracy.  You appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor.  Untold millions must suffer so that your Euro dream can continue.

But it won’t work, because it’s 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 would be seven times the size of Ireland, and at that moment all of the bailout money has gone.  There won’t be any more.  But it’s even more serious than economics. Because if you rob people of their identity, if you rob them of their democracy, then all they are left with is nationalism and violence.  I can only hope and pray that the Euro project is destroyed by the markets before that really happens.”

Amen.  I hope this guy stays active and doesn’t back down.  Unless he wants to come over here to America and kick some of our politicians in gear…

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