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"Mr President, we are embarked upon a course of almost unbelievable stupidity. The historic error made by Chancellor Merkel last year by saying all can come has led directly to this mess and now we are being blackmailed by Turkey.
First they came for EUR 3 billion in a promise to reduce the numbers coming into Greece and the rest of Europe and, of course, when the numbers increased many-fold they came back for another EUR 3 billion. And they will keep on coming back for more and more and more, as the British poet Rudyard Kipling observed of the Danish incursions into England. That was called paying the
but we proved again and again that if once you have paid him the
you will never get rid of a Dane.
And now they have got us over a barrel, this new deal where for every one illegal migrant we send back, if our human rights laws allow it, they will send us another one from Syria. So the argument is that we paid them a fortune not to reduce numbers, and yet we have given in. And we have said yes to visa-free access for 75 million Turks from June of this year. In theory, they can stay for 90 days. In practice, many will disappear or, of course, claim family reunion. The numbers will go sharply up. And in return for all of this, we are now going to fast-track Turkey as a full member of the European Union. My goodness me, I wish that David Cameron was as good at negotiations as the Turks are! So we are going to go into political union with a country that has got borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria. We are going to go into political union with a country that is poorer than anybody else in the European Union and give free movement to 75 million people and join up with a government that is increasingly Islamist and authoritarian.
The Turkish Prime Minister said this week that Turkish membership will be a turning point. Too right! The British Prime Minister has long supported Turkey being a member of this Union. In fact he has fought hard over 10 years for them to join. He does not bat an eyelid at the extra GBP 500 million we will stump up to help fund this crisis.
Well this referendum in Britain is all about what is the safest option, and given that the boss of Europol says there are already 3 000 to 5 000 Islamist terrorists that have come into Europe using the migrant routes, it is pretty clear to me that a vote to remain is a vote for Turkey. A vote to remain is a vote for massively increased immigration into Britain and a vote to remain is a vote that makes Britain more vulnerable to terrorism. Safer to vote to leave and take back control of our borders."@en1
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