Well, here we are, still in economic hardship across the
continent, and what does the EU decide to discuss? Well top of the agenda of
the Council meeting is defence.
I would argue that across Europe, not just the United
Kingdom, that defence is way down on the list of peoples concerns of what they
want to discuss. They want to discuss employment. They want to discuss what it
costs them to live – growing inflation.
But that’s not what you want to talk about. You want to talk
defence. We’ve heard the Commission here talk about competing with the US! Why
would you want to compete with the US? We are 28 sovereign nations! There is no
will, in the United Kingdom at least, to be one sovereign nation called the
European Union. You have to have the consent of people. But you don’t want
that, you want to move forward in this one super-state.
We shouldn’t be competing with the US. We should be working
with the US. Why do we want to reinvent the wheel? We have NATO, and NATO is
tried and tested. We need to re-invigorate NATO. That is what we need to do.
And on employment, and the Euro – you are congratulating
yourself because Latvia is joining.
You’ve had sticking plaster over sticking plaster on the
Euro single currency, and its congealed – the wound has congealed. This is just
another one with Latvia.
But we all know what happens when we leave a plaster on. It
becomes infected, and when you finally have to remove that plaster, it is far
more painful. That’s as good as an analogy that I have for the Euro. It will be
a painful, slow decline, and when it finally rips apart it will hurt and it
will hurt the people of Europe.
Stop this madness now.
