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Original Youtube Channel: UKIP MEPs
Jan 19, 2016

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• European Parliament, Strasbourg, 19 January 2016

• Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) Group in the European Parliament - http://www.nigelfaragemep.co.uk @Nigel_Farage

• Debate: Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 17 and 18 December 2015
European Council and Commission statements
[2015/2989(RSP)]

Transcript:

I'm looking forward to Guy Verhofstadt, the Liberal group leader, coming to the United Kingdom to take part in the Brexit debate. Your passionate defence of a United States of Europe and a European army is I know sincerely held and I'm sure the Liberal Democrats will be delighted.

It's now been a month since the last European Summit and I don't know about a week being a long time in politics, there has been a sea change in that month and I think that one event has woken people up to the folly of EU leaders; the Juncker Common Asylum Plan, the Merkel call, which led to a stampede.

Those of us that have warned that unlimited numbers of people from different cultures without security checks would pose a threat to the cohesion of our societies were roundly abused for doing so.

And then we came to New Year's Eve; Munich, the train station. The main station closed down because of a terrorist threat, the intelligence coming from Syria and Iraq. The very same train station that in September people had stood at holding up their placards, refugees welcome, that irony was not lost on me.

But it's what happened in Cologne, where we saw the mob, up to a thousand young males in the street sexually assaulting and harassing women. It is in I think many ways one of the most disgraceful public order events that we've seen in modern day Europe and yet there was an attempt by the police and the press to cover it all up and even the suggestion from some German politicians that German young women should change their dress and their mode of behaviour in the street which I thought was a total insult.

There is even a name for these assaults, a name for these assaults in Egypt because they have become common place and part of everyday life and we ought to have the courage to send out a message to say these assaults must never be acceptable in any European town or city and we'll do our damndest to make sure that it never happens again.

Now we go to the next European Summit and Mr Cameron is going to conclude his renegotiation. I've no doubt there will be a compromise on the fairly minor issue of migrant benefits, I've no doubt that he will come back from that summit with a few promissory notes for the future about Britain's relationship. But what he's not going to be talking about is our ability to get back control of our borders and the British people know that those young men in Cologne, in a few years' time will have EU passports and be free to come to Britain.

Just to give you an idea of how big the sea change has been, the Daily Telegraph commentator, Allison Pearson, who had said she was undecided on Brexit, she didn't have enough information, wrote this the other day, she said:

"After Cologne, the EU referendum is about nothing less than the safety and security of British women. We, the euro clueless, need to woman up and vote for the right of our daughters and granddaughters to live as they choose and to smile in the street. No more Mrs don't know, let's get the hell out."

I hope 2016 is our year of deliverance.
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Iain Macwhirter, political commentator for the Herald and Sunday Herald, told IndependenceLive.net recently: "It is clear that the Brexit process hasn’t just meant that the U.K. is leaving the European Union. It means that there is going to be a new [U.K.] Union afterwards and it is going to be much more of an incorporating Union. A much tighter controlled Union and a much more centralised Union."

During the interview Macwhirter went on to say: "it looks like decision time, doesn’t it really!".

Turning to the impact on Scotland of recent events in the U.S., Macwhirter said: "what we’ve also seen, distressingly, with the kowtowing, the obsequies attitude towards the new president of the United States is that it won’t just be Brexit U.K. that we’ll be in. It will be Trump U.K. because we’re so desperate to strike some kind of trade deal, for whatever reason – it seems like a mystery why you would give up a perfectly good free trade deal with Europe, to go and try and have one with America, but that’s what they intend to do. The kind of concessions that are going to be made to Donald Trump in the process, I think, most people here will find profoundly distasteful and have al sorts of implications for the standards and integrity of the National Health Service, Health and Safety, agriculture, GM crops, fraking, you name it, it is all going to be down there, and I think that is going to make people think very carefully whether or not they want to continue down the road of a U.K. which is basically under the tutelage of Donald Trump.”

Transcript of video clip below

“It is clear that the Brexit process hasn’t just meant that the U.K. is leaving the European Union. It means that there is going to be a new [U.K.] Union afterwards and it is going to be much more of an incorporating Union. A much tighter controlled Union and a much more centralised Union.

“I think before the whole Brexit process began there was a sense, even among many in Westminster, that the U.K. was moving towards a kind of federal constitution, where there would be a division of powers. The Scottish Parliament, on domestic legislation at least, would be its own boss. It would decide what the laws were to be in Scotland about these areas, these domestic areas – you know, education, as I said, the law, criminal justice, the environment etc. And that the border issues, maybe like currency, defence and foreign affairs, would be managed on a U.K. bases. And there are plenty of models for that obviously. You have in America and Canada, states like Quebec which have extraordinary latitude. States in America like Oregon which legalised cannabis, which has the power to set its own statutory minimum wage. These are very significant powers.

“So there was a feeling that this was kind of where we were moving. That almost by default Briton was become a federal entity. And I think that really the Brexit process has exposed that, clearly that is not the case. And the test of this was really the Sewel Convention – whether or not the Scottish Parliament now had a right to exercise sovereignty in the areas of its own responsibility? Or did it now? You can’t have two ways about this. Clearly it does not. Now this doesn’t mean that Holyrood is useless. It can still pass lots of laws. But it will always under the understanding that theses [new laws] are explicitly endorsed by Westminster, and they can be taken away whenever necessary. And that will be important coming down the Brexit road when we get to the Great Repeal Act, Great Repeal Bill, which will supposedly repatriate all the laws that are currently exercised by Brussels – agriculture and fisheries and what have you. [Control over these laws] will go to Westminster initially. There is a suggestion that Scotland will get more powers as a result of this process, but, if it does – and I doubt it very much – they will on the bases of this provisional nature. That so long as they accord with Westminster’s view of things, then the Scottish Parliament will be allowed to exercise its power. As soon as there is a constitutional issues, a constitutional confrontation it will be asserted that the U.K. has the over ridding authority.”

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If I am wrong - well, lucky England

This is not even a video. I just want to say something that will have a date on it.
You know, I want to call it. I want to be able at some point in the future to say “I knew this was going to happen, this was predictable, it should have been expected”.
I might be wrong sure, but I've seen it happening on so many levels - from personal, to art, to global politics. People do it all the time, but especially USA does it all the time.
And I predict this to happen between USA and England after brexit.

What I'm talking about is a pattern where one partner tells another “You deserve so much better and I want to give it to you. What you have now is beneath you, you should abandon it, you should burn the bridges behind you and then together we will build a bright future for you that will be so much better.”

And then after all the bridges are burned the tune changes. The one who burned the bridges becomes vulnerable and he has nowhere else to go. And now it is time for demands. Now that the conditions have changed it will turn out that there was a slight misunderstanding, things that looked like promises were not promises. And now it is time to negotiate, but since you are in such a vulnerable and needy position after you burned the bridges on your own, the deal that will now be negotiated, will be nowhere near favorable to you.

And I predict that this is what awaits England and USA relationships in the future. While UK is still in European Union the USA will make a bed of roses for it. But after England walks away from the European Union - especially if the break-up is so bad that you can't go back - then things will change.

Then it will turn out that this bed of roses was only for a short time. And now you will have to sleep on the bed of thorns, and pay for it a lot more than you paid for the rocky bed with European Union. And also you will have to be grateful for it.

Because by burning the bridges you have put yourself into a position where you have no other options. Nothing that was said or even kind of promised before you burned the bridges will matter. The situation have changed. You changed it, you burned the bridges and you are no more in a position where you can negotiate. You can only accept the terms that are presented to you by someone who - it seemed - promised you Heaven on Earth if only you would burn those bridges.

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