 Derek Clark Wednesday 13 October Future of the area of freedom, security and justice | Mr President, I speak particularly for the UK Independence Party. The course of justice and security in Europe took a backward step when internal border controls were abolished. This has encouraged large-scale movements of people across the continent, not to say much illegal immigration, all of which provides a perfect cover and condition for those you fear most: criminals such as the traffickers in human beings, and terrorists. They are now free to flourish. The UK Independence Party will re-establish Britain’s border controls and take back the right to say who shall enter our country. For centuries we accepted people from all over the world, but in small numbers so that they could settle peacefully and productively. Now our crowded islands are full and we seek to balance the number of those coming in against the number of those leaving. We believe in the sovereignty of the democratic nation-state. Countries are perfectly capable of establishing their own humane criteria for asylum seekers and of managing their own security systems. The capacities and needs of one country are not the same as any other. We do not believe in EU style harmonisation! |
 Jeffrey Titford Wednesday 13 October Draft amending budget No 9/2004 | Mr President, all one can say is here we go again folks, roll up and see the incredible bureaucrats of Brussels make another 1.2 million pounds of taxpayers money vanish in the blink of an eye. Watch in amazement as they create yet another unwanted institution designed to bury our hard-pressed business community in realms of delightful new paperwork. Before your very eyes see the European Union keep on getting bigger and bigger. At the stroke of a pen a new interfering busybody will be given a gigantic budget with which to expand their personal fiefdom and create another mountain of red tape. Mr President, the nation states can and do make their own arrangements on data protection. Britain has its own data–protection register and very detailed regulations to go with it. We simply do not need this post of European Data–Protection Supervisor and I strongly urge Members to vote against this amending budget and, just for once, to say 'no' to the EU empire builders. |
 Nigel Farage Tuesday 26 October Statement by Mr Barroso, President-elect of the Commission |
(on behalf of the group) Mr President, this row over Mr Buttiglione sums up the biggest problem of the European Union. Across our continent there are many different cultures, different languages, different religions and different ways of living. This attempt politically to force them all to become one will, in my opinion, never work. In UKIP, we take no side on Mr Buttiglione's comments whatsoever. Our reasons for opposing this Commission are different. We oppose it because it is an undemocratic institution. Even if tomorrow this House kicks it out, what we will get is a new set of political appointees, and it will still continue to look like a rest home for failed domestic politicians. It makes law, it produces law, in over 3 000 committees whose constitution nobody ever knows and has not been declared. The Commission is the government of the European Union and it has the sole right to initiate law - something which the constitutional treaty does nothing to amend. The Commission is the motor of integration. The Commission is the guardian of treaties that are already unacceptable. The Commission is the enemy of the nation-state. That is what it is all about. We will be voting 'no' tomorrow. Perhaps the rather delicious irony is that, for the first time ever in this House, the UK Independence Party will be with the majority. (Applause) |
Jeffrey Titford Tuesday 26 October 2005 Budget procedure |
Mr President, after reading the reports on the proposed budget for 2005, I cannot help but wish that they could also be read by those useful idiots back home, upon whom the British Government so often relies, who keep telling us that the EU is not about creating a giant single State. I should like them to count how many times the word 'integration' appears in the text. Let me concentrate on one issue. I am heartily sickened to read the passages about how many millions are to be aside for bodies that are - to quote the jargon - 'active at European level' or 'information relays'. They are to receive huge handouts, which they call 'Community subsidies for organisations working to advance the idea of Europe'. I will cut through all the jargon and tell you precisely what they are talking about: brainwashing! The European Union is a self-perpetuating political bureaucracy. In its quite unprecedented fashion it can arbitrarily allocate vast amounts of taxpayers' money towards the establishment of chairs in universities and to bankrolling educational institutions with deeply worrying titles, such as 'the College of Europe' or 'the European University Institute', and dozens of others. In total, there is a financial envelope of EUR 77 million over 3 years in this brainwashing budget. This budget is a gross misuse of public money. A large slice of the money it encompasses will be used to brainwash the public into thinking that the European Union is wonderful and that 'integration' really is a nice word. There is nothing nice about misleading people. In my country this is known as leading them down the garden path. We should reject this budget.
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 Robert Kilroy-Silk Wednesday 27 October Voting time |
Mr President, on a point of order; Mr Barroso showed his disdain for Parliament yesterday by turning up late and not apologising. He has now demonstrated his incompetence by having no proposals to put before Parliament today. Any self-respecting Parliament would now vote no confidence in the ... (The president of the Parliament cut off the speaker) |
 Ashley Mote Wednesday 27 October Preparation of the European Council (Brussels, 4 and 5 November 2004) |
Mr President, the European Council should understand that the British people have never voted to be governed by former communists, especially those who helped to enforce the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Neither do we want unelected commissioners who hide their murky involvement in the corrupt use of public money, tax evasion and bribery. We demand a duty of care from our government, which is why, last week, I gave detailed information about institutionalised corruption in this place to the Serious Fraud Office in London and I called on the British Government to withhold all future funding of the European Union under the terms of the Vienna Convention. No British Parliament has ever voted to pass British taxpayers' public money to third parties who cannot be trusted.
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