would you have voted that way or
revolted for breakfast yet I would have
already to get out but don't tell Bob
Geldof why did you vote that way ring
well because I think it's good I think
it's a great move I think you know to be
in control of your own country is a good
move
brexit is a statement of national
sovereignty don't misunderstand me
I like Nations I like borders I like the
people that live within those borders
making their own laws but I don't like
it when faceless bureaucrats make laws
for nations they don't even live in but
that's what they do in the European
Union
imagine a Belgian telling a Brit how
much he can charge his customers all the
reverse the EU bureaucrats do this in a
myriad of different ways all day every
day the people voted and you know they
have to get on with it no suddenly it's
like oh well we don't like that vote and
what do you mean you don't like that but
you had the boat this is what one let's
get on with it these peoples have
effectively been hijacked by a giant
ever-expanding bureaucracy the European
Union people will say but isn't there a
parliament a European Parliament that
represents the people of Europe well yes
but this body has got no real power it
can't make its own laws rather the power
resides with the European Commission
they're unelected and they can't be
removed and that's how absurd the whole
thing is the European Parliament meets
in Brussels at least that's what I
thought when I was elected there but
once a month do you know what happens
they load the contents of our offices
and papers into big plastic trunks and
they put those trunks on lorries and
they drive them then he 400 miles down
Europe's motorways to a French city
called Strasbourg where for four days
the contents of our office in our papers
are put into a new office and the
Parliament then sits there twelve times
a year this back and forth happens and
this from an organisation who say they
want to reduce their level of carbon
footprint this from an organization
whose accounts have not been given a
clean bill of health for the auditors
for the last 20 years this a parliament
it's more like a traveling circus
now all of Europe knows that it's
costing nearly 300 million euros every
year to move this back and forth from
Brussels to Strasbourg so why isn't it
reformed well the way the EU has been
structured to change that would require
changing the treaties and to change the
treaties would need all 28 member
governments to agree not to go to
Strasbourg 12 times a year and you know
something the French are never going to
agree to that because it's in their
economic interests for the travelling
circus to go to Strasbourg that it shows
you that a system of lawmaking has been
devised where not only can the voters
not change anything but the institutions
themselves are pretty much incapable of
reform unfortunately this is no laughing
matter
let me give you an example my countrymen
know only too well the United Kingdom is
an island it's surrounded by the sea and
yet as members of the European Union we
were only allowed to catch 20% of the
fish swimming in territorial British
waters what that meant but tens of
thousands of jobs lost in Britain's
coastal communities as we effectively
gave away the ability to look after one
of our greatest resources to a
bureaucracy based in Brussels they
wonder we left the EU again I have
nothing against Europe quite the
opposite I want good relations between
all the European nations
I want prosperous free and fair trade
between those nations but I'll be damned
if I'm going to give up my rights as a
British citizen so that some yura crack
can tell me how to live I won't do it
and I'm certain that across the
continent ultimately the French and the
Italians won't put up with it either I'm
Nigel Faraj for Prager University