EU’s central economic 10-year plan will fail again – Nigel Farage MEP

► European Parliament, Brussels – 07 April 2010 ► Speaker:Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD group. ► Debate: Outcome of the March 25-26 EU Summit President of the EU Council Herman Van Rompuy replies to MEPs’ statements ……………………………. ► Credits: Video: EbS – European Parliament Music: Intro from ‘Resistance’, by Muse Ending from ‘Red Army is the Strongest’, by the Soviet Red Army Choir. ……………………………. FULL TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH: We’re in the presence of a great man today, the president of Europe, a man who is so important he is beyond criticism, beyond reproach, he is the king of the modern political class, he is the modern day Zeus, and he intends to rule us from Mt Berlaymont and woe betide anybody that questions his authority or questions his dignity or they will face severe punishment. Indeed, in my case the last time we met and I had one or two things to say the parliament imposed the maximum possible fine, and I’m told if I say anything that upsets you the microphone will be cut off. Well, what price free speech, what price democracy? But you’ve come back to us today, and now with the approval of Mr Sarkozy and Angela Merkel you’re the head of a new economic government for 500 million people. And you’ve launched your 10-year plan, your wish list, and I just wonder, have you remembered what happened to the last 10-year plan, that was launched in 2000? It was launched in this parliament to much acclaim, it was a…