Wednesday, 11th March 2009

David Cameron is a man of no substance, simply looking for media headlines, says UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP, quoting the opinion of current EU President Vaclav Klaus, of the Czech Republic.

"Given Cameron’s dithering on the EU, it’s difficult to disagree." Mr Farage said. "He achieved headlines in June 2006 when he said that the Conservatives would leave the EPP grouping in the European Parliament in “some months, not weeks not years” – and unless my calendar has failed, it’s been years and nothing at all has happened.

"Ken Clarke comes back on to the front bench but no one signed up to Better Off Out may do so. Michael Howard’s policy of withdrawing from the Common Fisheries Policy is junked in favour of, well, allowing Brussels to do as it wishes."

In a comment published online by the Telegraph, Mr Farage  says that the majority of people in Britain are Eurosceptics, but most of our politicians disagree with their own voters.

"Poll after poll tells us that the British people do not want to be signed up to the Lisbon treaty, that if there was that referendum we were promised then the result would be a resounding no. Polls with a slightly different question, should we leave the EU altogether, also show a majority in favour of leaving the integrationists to their own devices."

Mr Farage says the UKIP position is simple: "We’ll be quite happy trading with everyone, co-operating where necessary and desirable, but we don’t want to be part of this political union: the only form of Europe that is currently on offer."

Back to Articles