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Nigel Farage ``Europe You Met Your Match DONALD TRUMP on Tariffs``

Published on Wed, Mar 28th 2018 News & Politics Rectangular SD

Nigel Farage `` Europe You Met Your Match DONALD trump on Tariffs ``
Tuesday, 13 March 2018 - Strasbourg Provisional edition

3. Guidelines on the framework of future EU-UK relations (debate)
Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFDD Group . – Mr President, two thirds of the British people think the European Commission is trying to bully us in these negotiations and they are right. The EU is bullying us, it bullies Member States, it bullies its next—door neighbours, and it even bullies the third world with its neo-colonial policies.

Of course it does, because the Europe of the Junckers, the Barniers and the Selmayrs is power without accountability. Well, at long last, you have met your match in Donald Trump. Now, you may well scream and shout about his aluminium and steel tariffs, but the EU puts tariffs on 13 000 goods coming into it, meaning that shoes and bras and food are more expensive for simple, ordinary folk who do not understand this because it has never been properly explained to them.

The sheer hypocrisy of criticising Trump when you already have put tariffs on steel and aluminium amazes me, but it does show the folly of us going for a transition period. It shows the utter stupidity of the Labour Party, wanting to sign us up to this permanently, because in this USA dispute we now find ourselves trapped, impotent and unable to act.

We need to be free. We voted Brexit, we voted to make our own trade policy and our own trade decisions. We could do a deal with America in 48 hours. We need to act. Just yesterday, the Trump administration were describing us as their best ally in the world.

Ms May, we did not vote for a transition period, we voted to leave this organisation, we voted to leave the customs union, we voted to leave the single market. So, please, Ms May, at this summit next week, do what Trump has done: stand strong against the European Commission, against the unelected bullies. Bearing in mind the Italian elections – and weren’t they wonderful, folks? – it is pretty obvious that the game is up anyway. So she will be doing not just the British people a favour, but the whole of Europe too.

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