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Voters need a choice on EU, says Farage
Thursday, 11th March 2010
UKIP’s parliamentary candidate for Buckingham, Nigel Farage, yesterday slammed the Tory position on Europe and bemoaned the lack of choice facing the electorate at the forthcoming general election.
His comments come after shadow foreign secretary William Hague said in a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London that the Conservatives want to play a leading role in the EU, which he claimed was “an institution of enormous importance to the United Kingdom and its foreign policy”.
Mr Farage, currently UKIP MEP for South East England said: "William Hague has confirmed exactly what we have now believed for a while. There is no difference between the three establishment parties when it comes to the European Union.
"He and they want the EU to run our foreign policy. This is a total surrender to alien power. It is a disgrace."
"He promises that the Tory party would, if it gained power be ‘highly active’ in promoting European co-operation on climate change, energy security, and give extra impetus for Turkish membership of the club.
"Tell me where the difference lies between that and the Labour or Liberal Democrat position. Nobody can, because there is none.
"The people of Britain do not want a highly active membership of the European Union. They do not want us to co-ordinate policies on climate change, they certainly don't trust the EU's energy policy and the thought that anybody in Britain is desperate to open our borders to 70 million Turks is simply barking.
"With this speech William Hague has finally destroyed any latent credibility that the Tories may once have had on the European Union issue. They are the same as everybody else, and the country demands better than that."
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