Faith and Finance

www.ukipmeps.org • European Parliament, Strasbourg – 14 September 2011 • Speaker Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy) • Debate: European Council and Commission statements – Economic crisis and the euro (in the presence of President Barroso) – ‘Blue Card’ question by Phillippe Lamberts (Belgoium) – Greens • Speech Transcript: I noticed during your speech Mr Barroso there was an all pervading sense of gloom. I saw for the first time, even your supporters shaking their heads, they don’t believe it what you are saying, the European people don’t believe in what you are saying, and I don’t really think even you now believe in what you are saying. We all know that Greece is going to default; the end game for Greece is near. And you can’t say you were not warned. You were told that Treaties were fatally flawed, you were all told that Greece should never have joined the Euro and when I stood up here and talked about Greek bond spreads you treated me with such utter derision it was as if I had just been let out of the local lunatic asylum. No, you have been warned all the way through. So now what you have got is Economic Governance and everybody here on the front row supports more European Economic Governance. What is European Economic Governance? I’ll tell you what it is. It is a plane landing at Athens airport out of which get an official from the Commission, an official from the ECB and an official …