Monday, 1st September 2008

UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP says David Cameron is "out of his depth on foreign policy". He was responding to the Tory leader's call in a BBC radio interview for accelerated NATO and EU membership for Georgia and the Ukraine.

Mr Farage, who was attending the EU summit on the Georgia crisis in Brussels, said: "It is amazing that the so called Eurosceptic Tory leader wants more power for the EU than even the EU does!"
 
Referring to the Brussels summit, Mr Farage commented: "The EU is split right down the middle on the affair, giving the lie to its idea that it is a global diplomatic player.

"Meanwhile Gordon Brown, who was not brave enough either to have an election for Labour leader or hold the promised referendum on the EU constitutional treaty, is now no doubt going to claim a victory because a meeting of the partnership and co-operation committee with Russia scheduled for 15 September will be postponed.
 
"I'm sure  Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev will be quaking in their boots about that."

Watch Nigel Farage talking about Russia and the EU on BBC1

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