UKIP Activist Upload - BBC The Record Europe Debate on Euroscepticism - 09 Oct 2011

Shirin Wheeler chairs a discussion with 4 MEPs: Jorgo Shatzimarkakis, a German Liberal, Paul Murphy, an Irish Socialist, Timothy Kirkhope, a British Conservative and Morten Messerschmidt of the Danish Peoples Party (EFD Members)

Opposition to the EU comes in a number of different flavours here.

The German Liberal belongs to a party who in recent domestic elections took a Eurosceptic stance and lost 7% of their vote. If there is any genuine euroscepticim here then it stems from criticisms of the way the eurozone was formed.

Irish socialist Paul Murphy is opposed to the EU on the basis that it is an organisation which forces, on behalf of bankers and hedge funds, ordinary working people to bail them out. He also believes austerity is failing in Ireland and elsewhere and yet he favours the financial transaction tax. Odd.

Timothy Kirkhope is the most significant MEP here on the basis that he repositions himself and the conservatives as "Euro-realists" and pitches the so-called reform agenda. If any true conservatives see this, then there can be no doubt that EU withdrawal or even a referendum is not part of the agenda. Conservatives believe in the European project and will slowly push it forward , just like the rest.

Morten Messerschmidt of the Danish People's Party of course makes the most sense. He is a genuine eurosceptic and tells it like it is, despite Shirin Wheelers snipe at him and his party, referring to them as xenophobic. Par for the course at the BBC.

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• UKIP
• Farage
• EU
• Eurosceptic
• Euro
• Crisis
• Morten
• Messerschmidt
• Paul
• Murphy
• Jorgo
• Chatzimarkakis
• Timothy
• Kirkhope
• Cameron
• Clegg
• Miliband

[Cordialis]

When did this air, please? No one can use undated sources. Please start dating the videos? The date of upload just isn't enough...

[ukipnoel]

@Cordialis the date on my videos is the date they were aired

[kynismos]

This Greek slimeball from Germany is a convicted fraudster. The ideal European parlamentarian.

[cornwallgeezer]

Well timmy is starting to change his tune now it's going tits up!!

What a fucking traitor bitch,

Check out his interview with Jon Gaunt on the BBC!

Just so they can stay in power!!

[cornwallgeezer]

Their starting to jump ship!

It wasn't me it was them mentality!

[cornwallgeezer]

Dear old Timmy boy what a deranged traitor!!

Money, money, money in a Brussels world!!

[Graham6762]

These traitors have completely sold out their countries.