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UKIP Uncovered: “Nigel Farage’s speech of yesterday on the new EU Commission

Nigel Farage’s speech of yesterday on the new EU Commission

Below this is the text of the speech delivered yesterday in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg.

The facts are today causing uproar across the Continent, except in France where a Presidential gagging order prohibits the background of their own appointed Commissioner from being revealed.

Are we all soon to be similarly kept in the dark about the truth regarding our rulers, just as the French are today?

Nigel Farage MEP Leader of the Ind/Dem Group 18th November 2004 :-

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Mr President, Mr Barroso said: ‘I think my team is of high quality’. Well, let us conduct a human audit. I am mindful that audits are not very popular in the European Commission and that auditors - if they do their job properly - get fired, but nonetheless here goes:

From France we have Mr Barrot, who will take on transport. In 2000 he received an eight-month suspended jail sentence for his involvement in an embezzlement case and was banned from holding public office for two years.

From Hungary we have Mr Kovacs, who will take on taxation. For many years he was a Communist apparatchik, a friend of Mr Kadar, the dictator in Hungary, and an outspoken opponent of the values that we hold dear in the West.

His new empire will produce taxation policy and he will look after the customs union from Cork to Vilnius. Are the PPE Group and the British Conservatives really going to vote for that?

From Estonia we have Mr Kallas, who for 20 years was a Soviet Party apparatchik until his newly acquired taste for capitalism got him into trouble. However, to be fair, he was acquitted of abuse and fraud but convicted for providing false information. He is going to be in charge of the anti-fraud drive! You could not make this up!

From the UK we have Mr Mandelson, who will take on the trade portfolio. He, of course, was removed twice from the British Government, but to be fair, he is one of the more competent ones!

From the Netherlands we have Mrs Kroes, who will take on competition. She is accused of lying to the European Parliament. These may be only allegations, but they are made by Mr van Buitenen and should be listened to.

Ask yourself a question: would you buy a used car from this Commission? The answer simply must be ‘No’! Even if they were competent and even if this were a high-quality Commission - sorry, Mr Barroso, but I do not think it is - we would still vote ‘No’ on the political principle that the Commission is the guardian of the Treaties; the Commission is the motor for integration; the Commission initiates the legislation that is damaging our businesses across Europe so badly; the Commission is the embodiment of all that is worst in this European Union; the Commission is the government of Europe and is not directly accountable to anybody.

Please, when you vote, take note that 20 of these Commissioners have already said that they intend to attempt to implement the Constitution even before it has been ratified by Member State governments. In the face of such breathtaking arrogance, nobody in the Independence and Democracy Group will vote for this Commission.

“Ten Million Dollar Affair.”

One of the seven Ex Communists in the new EU Commision is also a convicted criminal, Siim Kallas, the commissioner from Estonia, was convicted in 2001 of providing false information during his trial for the theft of $10m from the Central Bank of Estonia.

Denis MacShane
“I welcome the European Parliament’s strong vote for the new Commission today. And I wish to pass on my congratulations to Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso who has built an effective and modern looking team drawing on the experience and enthusiasm from all 25 countries. It comes at an exciting time for a new look Europe that now needs to press ahead to take forward a dynamic and exciting agenda and tackle the challenges that we all face.”

I was well aware that the EU Commision is the dumping ground of our own shady characters and did ask the rhetorical question which other country would send a person who had been sacked twice for shady dealings to the EU commision, where they would be the power behind all the laws we must obey but be above the lawn themselves. Well is seems just about every country is at it we now have a Commision made up of two convicted criminals and seven ex Communists along with a minister who will be making laws for farming and giving grants to farmers, whos husband owns a very big farm.

As to be expected with the EU a person who has been convicted of giving false information in court Siim Kallas has been made a vice president of the Commision and given… wait for it… yes the anti-fraud portfolio. So this convicted criminal is going to be in charge of rooting out fraud in the EU. Our own Neil Kinnock was worse than a waste of space in that job, proving his incompetence by actually sacking people who found fraud, but no one ever suggested that although he proved useless he was bent himself, the same cannot be said of Siim Kallas.

In words that do not belie Mr Kallas past as a very senior Communists, he said that the “security at the Commission must be dramatically improved. We must tackle unfriendly intelligence against the Commission”. Also showing his past Communist roots Mr Kallas made it clear that the commision should not bother to wait for the ratification of the EU Constitution when he said “The Commission should already build on the political commitment to greater integration expressed by member states” so much for democracy.

So this convicted criminal wants the EU Commision to be a secret conclave that does not allow openness as it makes its rules to implement the EU Constitution, before it has any legal rights to do so, whilst the same time taking action to prevent unfriendly intelligence against the Commision. So we now must not make any troublesome comments about the EU Commision of course the EU has already taken the view legally that to criticise the EU is close to blasphemy.

And they have the outright audacity to suggest that the EU is a democratic organisation.