Några av Farages fullpoängare:
We’re all going to be asked to vote, and we’ve got one candidate to vote for! It’s like good old Soviet times, isn’t it?
You’ve said that you don’t believe in a United States of Europe. You’ve said that you don’t believe in a common European identity. But I have to say, I didn’t believe a word of it.
You [also] talked about Monsieur Mitterand and Mr. Kohl as being heroes of yours. I would have thought a war-time collaborator and somebody who left German politics under a huge cloud of a massive party funding scandal, should not be the kind of people that we should stand up as great models of virtue in modern Europe today.
What is clear is that you are going to carry on with the centralisation of powers, which is not surprising, because for twenty years you’ve been a key player in this whole process, which frankly has treated democracy with deliberate contempt.
You’ve said before that when it becomes serious, you have to lie.
You said at the end of your speech: ”This is not the time for a revolution”. I put it to you that there’s already been a revolution. There’s effectively been a coup d’etat on nation state democracies without people realising what’s been done to them.
The vast majority of European people don’t want a European state, don’t want the European Commission to be the executive, don’t want that flag, and don’t want that anthem.
So you’ll get elected, and I will enjoy doing battle over the course of the next year or two.