Daniel Hannan MEP: The Germans have seen through the EU racket

Daniel Hannan, MEP for South East England, gives a speech on the 11th March 2009 in the Strasbourg European Parliament.

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[daviduk40]

UKIP came second in the national share of the vote, and turnout across Europe was very low too. Virtually all the other major economic powers manage to trade with the world and make their own sovereign laws, control immigration etc, without being part of any economic or political union - USA, China, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia, etc etc. We do NOT need to be part of the EU to prosper, quite the opposite really, when you think of what we put in and what we get back. LET'S LEAVE THE EU !!!

[xXU2BerXx]

the reason there is no counter-argument is that his arguments are irrefutable....

[genwrian]

Get on with it, and get out of Europe its been a great big con game!

[promisedeyes]

The EU as an institution acts like a sponge sucking up ever more funding and staff and privileges.

Even as someone who's relatively supportive of the EU as an idea I'm dissapointed with its functioning.

[joepeeler34]

@g0twav Germany has no minimum wage laws? I'll have to look that up. I knew that Germany had less rigid labor markets than other european countries. I don't think it is just that though.

[g0twav]

@joepeeler34 Germany has no minimum wage laws or price controls which is why they are so successful whereas the rest of Europe is falling apart.

[joepeeler34]

@g0twav Yes, I agree. The rest of europe is trying to suck every last ounce of production out of the German worker. They are using the European Central Bank to do it in many instances. If I were a German citizen, I would get out of the EU today.

There are some commerce benefits, but there are also protections, subsidies--direct and indirect--and Germans also have to worry about the numerous welfare countries in the EU.

They are trying to set up a North American Union over here. Ughh!

[g0twav]

@joepeeler34 Germany has been suffering through this since 1918.

[RedGoblinus]

@Midvinterblot542 Indeed, Daniel Hannan is wasted in the EU loving Tory party - he'd be an international sensation in UKIP. The EU is led by known criminals, liars and traitors. These EU criminals are currently blaming Greece for the problems they have caused throughout Europe with their corrupt and totally undemocratic EU project. In the prose of Oliver Cromwell - Britain's EU lovers are no more than de facto traitors that would sell their country for a mess of pottage.

[Midvinterblot542]

Why doesn't Daniel Hannan join UKIP? It seems his views are spot on with Nigel Farage and I think these two would make an unstoppable team of political orators..

[mark32811]

All government is a few controlling the many and taking their energy/money. It's time to trash the idea of government altogether, the western hemisphere Natives (before the immense genocides) had no government and they got along swell.

[joepeeler34]

@Napoleon501ste You can have free trade without a European Union. Europe doesn't have free trade though. It has managed trade just as we have here in the states. Germany has supported other EU members for quite some time. The currency is debased in order to monetize debts. Germans end up paying an inflation tax when the EU creates money out of nothing to bailout other countries. If it comes from direct taxes, it's just as bad. Germans have gone along because they still have guilt about WWII.