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Euro ‘Bailouts’ are a means for total subjugation of nation states – Nigel Farage

October 24, 2012 05:04

Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the ‘Europe of Freedom and Democracy’ (EFD) Group in the European Parliament mocks the award of the the Nobel peace prize being awarded to the EU. Farage says Europarl members who are for bailouts want to subjugate the nations that get bailouts.

“But I have to say, you’re even worse than I thought you were going to be. I thought it was just going to be a federal Europe – a federal union. But actually it appears with every statement you make that what you now want is the total subjugation of the states to completely undemocratic structures based in Brussels.

I misread the bailouts. I thought that when the bailouts happened – and I could see the panic around this chamber, people fearing the economic meltdown.

But you of course were calm through it all, because you saw the bailouts as your opportunity to take control. Just think how Ireland today is managed. Greece, for that matter. The sinister-sounding Troika [Commission-ECB-IMF] come in, 50 officials spend a few days in the country, investigate the situation and then tell puppet prime ministers what they may or may not do.

And I note great enthusiasm in this chamber for Spain to have a bailout. Lots of members here want Spain to accept the bailout so that they too are subjugated to this new order. Indeed in Italy, the appointee there, Mr Monti, is very keen for his own country to be bailed out, because, to quote him, he fears that parliamentary democracy could bring down the European Union.

So I think it’s pretty clear that your next phase is for those who haven’t been bailed out and may not need to be bailed out; you now want them to sign guarantees, budget guarantees, and to have the power to strike down national budgets after they have been through parliaments.

I have to say, I feel that the eurozone is now in a very dark place, economically, socially, politically, and I fear that the countries trapped inside it – in that prison – will be there for many years to come”