Britons are fed up with Brussels governing London, and they’re ready for the UK to be self-run. David Cameron should stand up for the country and let the British public decide its own fate for once, Godfrey Bloom of the UK Independence Party told RT.
The balance of power between London and Brussels is “broadly
appropriate,” according to a Whitehall review published on
Monday. The government report claims that Britain’s membership in
the EU means the UK reaps large benefits instead of being harmed
through surrendering powers to Europe.
The report comes in the face of Cameron’s proposal to review and
renegotiate the UK’s relationship with the EU, promising to hold
an “in or out” referendum by the end of 2017. Bloom postulates
that the report solely reflects the opinion of the political
class, and that decisive action will not be taken while the UK is
under Europe’s thumb.
RT: Which way do you expect Cameron's government
to go, given that this study promotes the current relationship
that the UK has with the EU?
GB: Basically we have a PM, who I think is probably the
most naïve PM we’ve had in this country since Ramsay McDonald. He
really doesn’t understand how it works. Now at the moment we do
not have self-government, we are governed by Brussels.
Seventy-five per cent of our laws come from Brussels. They
control our energy policy, our agricultural policy, fishing
policy, and employment policy, and all the major things that we
should have as a free self-governing nation have been gone. So
this report doesn’t reflect the will of the British people, it
just reflects the will of political class, the status quo.
And we’re just about fed up with it in the UK, and I’ve got a
point to make here as well –they’re just about fed up with it
everywhere else in the EU. We’re fed up with the political class.
Let’s rule our own country, let’s run our own country for the
good of our own people.
RT:Does this study not encourage your party to rethink
its stance on Europe since it talks about a relationship that is
good for both parties?
GB: In whose opinion? In the opinion of British ordinary
working man, what we used to call “the man on the Clapham
omnibus,” we don’t want to be governed by Brussels. We’ve
developed, you know, a system of government and a system of law
that has developed over a thousand years. A thousand years! It’s
one of the oldest systems of government and law on the face of
the planet. It’s actually been adopted by other nations. And
we’ve now given it up to a completely undemocratic,
centralist, statist political class. And we just don’t want this
anymore. We want self-government, please, so let’s have a
referendum. Why are we listening to think tanks - yet another
think tank? Why simply can we not have a referendum and put it to
the people? Wouldn’t that be the most sensible and democratic way
of dealing with it?
RT:That might happen in a couple of years’ time, but what
do you say to people who fear that Britain's economy will suffer
if it leaves the EU?
GB: Well what is happening to our economy now? We are
trillion of pounds in debt, it’s the biggest debt we’ve had in
the history of our nation. We have zero GDP growth. We
don’t make our law anymore, we can’t control our immigration
borders, we have 30 per cent youth unemployment. It costs us
somewhere in the region of 40 million pounds per day to belong to
this undemocratic, corrupt empire. The whole thing at the
moment is a disaster. So what would happen to our economy if we
left? It would leap forward, because most of our trade is with
the Pacific Rim and North America, and most of our increasing
trade is with those places. It is in decline with Western Europe.
And the demographic is going down. We are strapped with hoops of
steel to the rotting corpse of the European Union, and we want
out!
RT:And finally do you believe that David Cameron’s
government will change its tune? I ask that because it was the
one that suggested it would hold a referendum. Given this report,
do you think that it will be more sympathetic now to this, and
perhaps want to retain links with the EU?
GB: Look, David Cameron is either naïve or a crook. I think
probably a bit of both. I was in the parliament for the
last six months. I watched David Cameron’s party vote through 68
per cent of the measures that have now got into English law over
the last six months. My party voted for zero. Did you know that
we actually suggested that we ran our own fishing policy and the
Conservative party voted against it? They voted for and drove
through control of the city of London to Brussels. You simply
cannot trust a single word this man says and he’s beginning to be
exposed now. He’s a wrong’un!
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