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"Mr President, well, isn’t it all lovely? Virtually everybody agrees – the Commission, the group leaders in Parliament – that it is jolly good that two more countries are joining. But could we please stop this farcical pretence that it has got anything to do with the criteria of dealing with the justice system or them fulfilling the
. Romania and Bulgaria will join on 1 January next year for political reasons. This has to happen, because you need a diversion. The peoples of Europe have lost confidence in you and in these institutions.
All today’s statement represents is a victory for the political classes, the classes in the European Union who want this to be a world superpower to take on the United States of America, and of course a huge victory for the politicians in Romania and Bulgaria, who will enrich themselves enormously and give themselves jobs in perpetuity. So welcome to Romania and Bulgaria; let us welcome their politicians onto the EU gravy train.
But what of the implications for the rest of us? Well, I am all for free trade. I am all for the free movement of goods and services. I am all for us having the opportunity to work in each other’s countries, but to have an open-door immigration policy between countries with differing GDPs is madness. Already Britain has taken in over a third of a million people from the ten countries that joined in 2004 and it is now estimated by Migration Watch in the United Kingdom that when Bulgaria and Romania join we will take in another third of a million over the next three years. Our public services simply cannot stand mass migration on that scale, and Romania and Bulgaria will lose many of their brightest and best young people into the bargain.
So you may have your diversion today, Commissioner, but the EU is failing, public confidence is falling and it will all end in tears."@en1
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