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"Mr President, it seems to me almost laughable that the EU is to publish a report on growth when it is at the centre of Europe’s relative global decline. The EU is about nothing more than the erosion of national sovereignty and the centralisation of powers in Brussels. And what is Brussels but an autocratic, bureaucratic Leviathan wallowing in red tape and destroying any competitiveness that Europe could possibly have with regulations on everything imaginable?
At the centre of this political project is an economic anomaly, the euro. This currency never was – and never will be – an economically-sound project. It was a political project and not an economic project. While this may make the federalists here feel fluffy and warm, it certainly does not make the people of Europe feel fluffy and warm as they are entering into an economic crisis. For the stifling of Europe’s competitiveness and the euro as the common disease, the only medicine with a hope of curing Europe is a euro exit and a return to the original currencies.
Thankfully, the case for the UK is not so dire. In the last five years the UK has generated more jobs than the rest of Europe put together. Unfortunately, the Brits are not feeling the benefits, because of endless supplies of cheap European labour flooding our markets and reducing our standard of living. This is also increasing the housing problem.
We have a housing crisis in the UK, and we have to build a new house every seven minutes just to keep up. That is a scandal, and we cannot have any more of it. There are only two ways to sort out the UK housing market: firstly to increase supply and, secondly, to halt open-door European immigration. Now that Cameron’s pathetic list of demands – well, rather pleas, really – have finally been published, we know definitively that free movement of people is not up for negotiation. It may please UKIP ..."@en1
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