Strasbourg Commentary
Plenary Session Sept 9th
– 12th 2013
Nice to back!! –
especially as little changes!
Actually, it does. I take
you have seen newspapers comments on Barroso’s speech on the “State
of the UKIP”, delivered on Wednesday. Take his comments about us as
you like but I do not think he meant to compliment us. Perhaps he was
trying to alert other UK parties to our threat, after all, people
like him do not like to change tack to take on a different foe.
However, I also hope you have picked up Nigel’s comments,
especially his response to the really repulsive Guy Verhofstadt,
leader of the Lib-Dems.
Tuesday. Votes
included report on “Right of access to lawyer in criminal cases
etc” . Passed by 661 – 29. This simply illustrates how far behind
they are. We take legal representation in court for the accused as a
matter of course, but for much of the EU it is a step into the
unknown. And they say we have to listen to them, ECHR and so on!!
Herewith my speech to the
house on Europe’s Young Jobless, also on video via the link
included.
Speech
delivered in the Parliament – Tuesday 10th
September 2013
Thank you Madame President. From
Britain, from the House of Lords, our upper chamber, I have received
a note today. They are launching an enquiry into the proposals to
help Europe’s young jobless. They note that the EU is going to
spend 8 billion euros over the next 6 years and they want to know if
that will add any value to these proposals.
They note also that there is a brain
drain in Europe and what are we going to do about it with young
people without a job leaving in such great numbers for work
elsewhere. We all know that Spain has got some 50% youth unemployed.
280,000 young people left Spain alone last year to seek their
fortunes either in the rest of Europe or in South America.
It’s no coincidence that Spain,
together with several other European countries, is struggling.
Ireland, Portugal, Greece and others, what have they in common,- the
Euro, a straightjacket which is robbing them of their economy. No
wonder they are in trouble, no wonder they have high youth
unemployment. Let them sort out their own salvation with their own
former currencies restored.
This may lead to low wage economies,
but then you have to ask the question – do you want a low paid job
or no job at all?
Wednesday Votes on
Biofuels. Surprisingly a lot of amendments tabled by the Environment
committee were defeated but do not be fooled. They are in favour of
turning over land for biofuel production. That may be OK in the UK,
up to a point, but in the third world of starving millions it is
criminal. Actually, the vote to send this to be framed in legislation
was not taken, it was decided to refer it back to committee, as was
the whole report on assessing the effect of projects on the
environment. This included a passage on Shale gas, did someone get
cold feet?
Having spoken on Youth
Unemployment on Tuesday evening (video on my website) I was depressed
to see two reports on Youth employment, full of platitudes and
wishful thinking, being passed, one by 612 – 55, the other by
592-81. Paul Nuttall also spoke on this, earlier on Tuesday evening,
see UKIP MEPs website.
Thursday Two
reports of deadly menace to the UK were adopted today. Both were on
banking, ‘European Banking Authority and supervision of credit
institutions”, and, ” Specific tasks for the European Central
Bank .. supervision of credit institutions” . Our banks will be
under the supervision, i.e. control, of the ECB. These reports passed
by 556 – 54 and by 559 – 62. What made this worse was that the
president, Martin Schultz, gave a long winded introduction to these
reports which was tantamount to promoting them; “EU banking is good
for you”. A but rich seeing that they can’t get the Court of
Auditors to sign off the EU books,- 16 years now!!
This “Parliament?” also
adopted a couple of reports on EU armed services, not that they
actually called it that. One was on EU military structures, and talks
of defence spending, streamlining an EU Army, “Sharing” etc. etc.
I was more alarmed by the
second report, ”Maritime dimension of common security….” They
want a maritime force to protect resource extraction… EU
cooperation to deal with threats… maritime presence in the Black
Sea!!.... if war breaks out in the Caucuses EU needs to mobilise….
Galileo for military use….. create a EU coast guard…. Wants to
support an EU Navy….and wants to share overseas bases. Gibraltar is
overseas!!!
How many more times do we
have to deal with the Spanish Navy!??
As I said, nice to be back
but keep an eye out for an extra. I did a bit of TV for our in-house
cameras on Wednesday. All about the Syrian crisis, and our response
to the call for military action. It should soon appear on the
UKIPMEPs website, when it does I will send a link to an article
published the following day, a letter from president Putin.
Derek Clark MEP
Strasbourg Sept 12th 2013
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