Nigel Farage's Top Speeches

Nigel Farage Resigns as head of UKIP

By Dark Politricks

As we say goodbye to Nigel Farage from the political scene I thought I would collate an article of his most famous speeches in the EU Parliament.

Nigel Farage is the man who started the UK Independence Movement to leave the EU, he helped convince the country that we should vote for BREXIT, and has now chosen to resign from UKIP saying that the job is now done.

He went to Brussels and got paid handsomely as an MEP but at least he told everyone about it, unlike the other tax payer milking ex politicos. He let on about the massive expenses, the special passports that gave him the right to jump queues at airports and the daily allowances just for turning up at work.

He wanted us to make him redundant, he actually begged us to make him jobless, and unlike many in the EU parliament he had actually held down a real job before becoming a politician.

So whatever you think of him, and whilst he never sat in the Houses of Commons, you cannot deny that he's managed to change the whole political scene in the UK and Europe, mostly as a one man band for a lot of the time.

You can listen to his resignation speech below where he attacks the undemocratic centralised control of the EU and the mass joblessness of the youth across southern Europe due to the Euro.

He also talks about the rush of Commonwealth countries like Australia and New Zealand who have already contacted us already about forming one to one trade deals.



I agree with Nigel that I am worried about our BREXIT.

We cannot have politics as normal and we cannot have a REMAIN campaigner as our PM doing the deal with Europe for us.

We should be busy doing our one to one deals with other countries now, and quickly, so that businesses and employees can see we are getting on with things and help settle the markets that went totally mental after the vote but seem to be getting back to normal now.

We need to ignore all the mass protests by Remain voters who are sore losers.

We need to ignore all the Internet polls saying that London should become a city-state and all the lawyers who are demanding the UK Government ignore the referendum result.

These people can use all the legal technicalities they want but morally the vote has been won and we should get on with things and make the best of them like we always do in the UK.

UKIP maybe to the right of the UK political spectrum and many people might think it's just full of old people who hate foreigners.

However what they don't realise is that many UKIP supporters are poorer and younger workers who have suffered due to wage suppression and globalisation.

This is why I cannot believe Labour have chosen this time to attack Jeremy Corbyn for not doing enough to get Labour voters to vote remain.

How can he be blamed for the evils of globalisation that have caused the poor to suffer. It's the rich Blairites and Politicos that just don't understand why people on the left could possibly vote to leave the EU.

Globalisation hasn't done everyone favours.

It may have raised wages in poorer countries but it has lowered them in richer countries. We are now all fighting to prevent the international corporations forcing us to all work to Chinese sweatshop levels and the lowest common level.

By allowing companies within the UK to hire cheap Eastern European labour and undercut UK workers the politicians only have themselves to blame.

Labour under Blair and Brown opened the doors to our current multicultural society, a policy they have now apologised for, and they have to accept responsibility for all the unemployment caused by it.

Thousands of UK people put out of work due to their jobs being taken by people willing to work longer hours and for much less pay than them.

Why we can't have some sensible laws such as enforcing companies to offer ALL jobs to UK born citizens at least 5 times, including the long-term unemployed before even thinking of hiring an overseas worker I have no idea.

It wouldn't be hard to implement but it would cut a hole in these rich global elites pockets and who gives a toss - I don't.

That is why so many Labour voters chose to vote to leave and that is why Labour should be looking at Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for blame and NOT Jeremy Corbyn for the mass Labour vote to leave the undemocratic EU.

However as we are saying goodbye to one of the most colourful characters of the UK and European political stage I thought I would collate some of Nigel's finest outbursts and speeches for you.

Nigel's Most Famous Speech - "Who are you?"

Starting with a personal famous favourite here. Nigel Farage welcoming the newly unelected EU President Herman van Rompuy to the EU Parliament.

"You have the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk" were the famous words that made the UKIP leader a household name around the globe.

One year later - "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?"

One year after that speech he attacks him again for being the poster boy for Euroscepticism due to the failure of the Euro and the crisis in the EU.

The EU Parliament President attacked by Farage

Here is another EU President being attacked by Nigel Farage in the EU parliament. He sure doesn't make any friends in the room with his speeches.

Nigel Farage Savages Angela Merkel

Here is Nigel savaging the German leader and David Cameron about how she is leading the EU to a more centralised federal system and how the UK can do nothing about it due to the country not being inside the Euro.

"Who do you think you are kidding Mr Juncker"

Here is Nigel attacking the EU for their desire to create an EU army and apparently wanting to fight Russia over Ukraine.

Nigel's speech that won the BREXIT vote

This is a speech that Nigel made in June about Turkey blackmailing the EU as well as being an ally of ISIS, using their NATO membership to bomb their Kurdish enemies in Syria instead.

He talks about the flooding of Europe with weapons, allowing millions of poor undocumented migrants to become documented, and the failure of the EU to solve the refugee crisis.

The EU ask him in response whether he supported these wars that caused all the refugees and he replies defiantly that NO he would have voted against them all if he was in the UK parliament.

Nigels attacks Gordon Brown on hypocrisy

Here Nigel takes on the ex Labour PM, Gordon Brown, who went back on his pledge to give the UK a vote on the Lisbon treaty (EU Constitution), after the Irish voted against it in their first referendum.

He also attacks him for selling 400 metric tons of Gold at a massively devalued price and his poor management of the UK economy.

Nigel takes on Tony Blair the war criminal

Here Farage attacks Tony Blair for his failure to secure the UK rebate and his failure to reform the EU on their common agricultural policy.

Goodbye EU, I won!

"When I came here 17 years ago and I said I wanted to lead a campaign to leave the EU you all laughed at me, well you're not laughing now are you...."

This is Nigel Farage's victory speech in the days after the BREXIT vote, in which the Vote Leave side won. He had finally achieved his dream ambition of leading the UK out of the EU.



So what do you think of UKIP leader Nigel Farage and his successful, almost one man campaign to leave the EU that snowballed into winning EU elections, hundreds of seats on local councils and even 2 MPs?

Will he go down in history as one of England’s most successful politicians or will his name be blotted out of history due to the remain side's bitterness at us leaving the EU against their will?

Let me know what you think and remember to take the new poll at the top of the page on whether we should have voted to leave or stay in the EU. Do YOU have buyers remorse?

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By Dark Politricks

 

© 2016 Dark Politricks

Why the left voted to Leave the EU

Why the left voted to Leave the EU

The votes came in during Thursday night, and the world woke up to shock on Friday morning. The UK had voted to leave the EU.

There is no denying that the voting was very close with 51.9% people voting to leave and 48.1% of UK citizens voting to stay.

This map of the UK on the BBC news site shows the breakdown of the vote.

There is also no denying that the UK is now very split because of the decision. Apart from London, the cosmopolitan city of the world where a hundred nations have their own "China Town" areas, the rest of England voted to leave in strong numbers.

Wales also overwhelmingly voted to leave, but Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay. This is obviously going to cause many further issues with the SNP already calling for another referendum on leaving the UK.

We could be seeing the breakup of the UK and maybe even the EU with many other nations wanting their own vote to leave the EU.

However despite the issues many people will be wondering why so many people on the left side of politics voted to leave the EU.

We already knew that huge swathes of right wing Tories and UKIP supporters have been waiting for years for a chance to vote to leave the EU, but lots of you will be wondering why so many left wing and Labour voters chose to also vote to leave the EU.

Isn't the left supposed to be all for the EU, and the social aspects of a Europe. An area where we all are one people on the same continent, working and living where we want, and having our rights protected on a European level?

Well this video might help you understand why left wing voters decided to support a BREXIT.

It's a talk by Mark Blyth a professor of Political Economy at Brown University.

In the video he talks about the BREXIT vote and the ramifications for the ‎UK and ‎Europe.

He also considers the current situation in ‎Greece and the long run effects of what he calls "Trampism".

It is well worth watching if you are wondering why people voted to leave from the left.



So did that video help you understand why the left voted to leave the EU?

Remember, the Blairites are not real left wingers and their opportunistic attack on Jeremy Corbyn just proves that fact.

Labour is supposed to be the party of the workers but many of the poor white working class Labour voters have been the people to suffer worst from globalism and "free trade", a system where prices and wages are pressured downwards to the lowest level.

You could be having your job threatened by workers from the Eastern European countries who are willing to work for less than you.

Or you could be waiting long times for doctors appointments due to the large number of people needing the services and not enough GP's and consultants to handle the pressures.

Or you see successive right wing (Blairite and Tory) Governments not funding our public services to the right levels, or building enough council houses.

If so then you are going to be angry and pissed off.

Who are you going to blame?

Well many people on the right have blamed the migrants but many on the left blame the establishment and the constant push towards globalism.

The UK government, Blairites, the EU and all the other globalist entities including the worldwide corporations who benefit from cheap labour and their ability to base companies in cheap tax havens, are the ones who have been the ire of many on the left.

These people are not racist they are just suffering, and they see the EU and other global forces and ideas such as the TTIP trade agreement. 

This is one agreement which we are now hopefully out of due to it being agreed on an EU / US level. 

The forces who want TTIP have helped push countries to offshore their jobs to lower wage countries and allow cheap labour to flood into the UK. These are all globalist plans which have hurt so many poor unskilled, skilled and even professional workers.

So hopefully that video will help you understand why many on the left wing voted for BREXIT and it may even make you think that it was the right decision.

Let me know in the new poll at the top of the page,

68% of you voted to leave in the last poll so that may tell you something about the division in the country over the EU referendum vote. It's definitely a country split down the middle on the EU.

However now we have left you many have changed your mind about your decision.

Put your mouse where your heart is and tell me what you think.

Before you vote today please read this article

Before you vote today please read this article

For the first time in my life I, like many of you, are going to be asked what is probably the most important question ever, one that could affect the country and all our lives for decades to come.

Whether we should stay or remain in the EU.

Some people like to boil it down to a simple question of little Englanders versus educated metropolitan elites. However everyone's perspective and experiences of living within the EU differs and one cannot gloss over certain facts and issues with promises and maybes. Whatever way vote it is a leap into the dark.

If we vote to leave there could be economic consequences and if we vote to stay there could be even more issues. Mostly related to living in an already overcrowded island and definitley as part of an undemocratic club that wishes to unite even further, pushing ever more towards a United States of Europe (source: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/valeacutery-giscard-destaing-the-eu-treaty-is-the-same-as-the-constitution-398286.html)

I didn't get a chance to vote to join the EEC and many people who did have now decades later changed their minds. Why? Because we are no longer just in the European Economic Community we are in the European Union.

The change of name should tell you a lot as the EU is a very different beast to the EEC and even the remain campaigners admit there are many problems with a democratic deficit, migration, and pressures on our services and housing due to our membership.

The problem is that the EU needs to integrate even further than the current undemocratic bureaucracy because of the one part of the EU we don't belong to, the EURO. 

Without a proper fiscal and political union the EURO is bound to fail. Nations like Greece, Spain and Italy have seen what happens when they cannot reduce or increase their own interest rates or de-value their currencies due to being locked into the EURO. It causes job losses, mass migration of their youth and austerity measures forced upon them.

Luckily, despite all the main economists, bankers, IMF, the World Bank and most of the same people who say we must remain in the EU now, we decided to stay out of the EURO. That helped our economy and we had one of the longest economic booms since the World War. We actually finally managed to pay off our debts to the USA for World War I and World War II!

If you can remember the 80's and 90's then you will remember interest rates of 12-15%+ which made borrowing expensive but it also meant you could actually get proper interest on your savings in the bank.

This was also a time where anyone in society could sign up to their local council to be put on the housing list and accumulate points the longer they were on it. There was none of this current shortage of council or housing association stock. A situation where you are turned away unless homeless or seriously ill, and sometimes not even then. All due to the lack of housing association stock which has been used up a long time ago and not replaced by the government.

Also during this time when Maggie Thatcher was exporting our manufacturing jobs offshore, closing the mines and turning the UK into a service economy whilst privatising anything she could,we joined something called the ERM.

This was the European Exchange Rate Mechanism where European countries pledged to keep their currencies in check with each other. I quote from the fount of all knowledge Wikipedia.

We joined the ERM in October 1990, effectively guaranteeing that the British Government would follow an economic and monetary policy that would prevent the exchange rate between the pound and other member currencies from fluctuating by more than 6%.

On the 8th of October 1990, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher entered the pound into the ERM mechanism at DM 2.95 to the pound. Hence, if the exchange rate ever neared the bottom of its permitted range, DM 2.773, the government would be obliged to intervene. With UK inflation at three times the rate of Germany's, interest rates at 15% and the "Lawson Boom" about to bust, the conditions for joining the ERM were not favourable at that time.

The signs were not good and what happened? Speculators such as George Soros bet against the pound and we couldn't manage to keep within the range set. This caused Black Wednesday where over £3 billion was lost and Soros made over a billion by shorting the pound.

We were forced out of the ERM and we devalued our currency.

At the time it was all doom and gloom but by actually de-linking our currency from the Germans we actually managed to start exporting goods and a few years later our economic recovery started.

What does all this have to do with the EU you may be asking?

Well it shows you that without a proper federal Europe, which many politicians and EU commissioners have called for over the years in public, the EURO will fail. 

When countries cannot control their own currency and interest rates due to the rules of a giant trading block in which certain countries like Germany do well in manufacturing, and others like Italy and Spain, are mainly tourist based, there are very different fiscal requirements for each country. Therefore if the EURO is to succeed more political and fiscal union must happen. This has been discussed many times and is openly admitted by many on the remain side.

Whatever good you may think the EU has done with the protection of workers rights, environmental concerns and free trade and visa free living, we are not in this central gang of countries that are heading towards a United States of Europe.

Whatever you may think, the Germans, French and others all realise that for the EURO to succeed they must have closer ties and they are pushing for a more Federal Europe.

This poses a problem for us.

Without being members of the EURO we will be forced to adopt EU laws and regulations that are made to help the EURO countries and not us.

We are just one voice at a big table and they want to take away the veto on many issues which would prevent us from stopping certain laws that come in to help the EURO ZONE countries not us.

Now you may not care who makes your laws, or whether you can't get a council flat or even find a place to rent or buy within your price range due to the mass shortage of housing in this country.

However if you do, you have to realise that the mass migration that started after Labour opened the doors to newly admitted Eastern European countries in the early part of the century, has caused pressures that we just cannot cope with.

Migrants help the NHS and they do wonderful jobs, pay tax and all the rest of the things English people do.

However if our governments, Labour and Tory, cannot build enough houses for the people already living in the country then how are they going to manage to build a city the size of Liverpool, every year for the current estimate of 300,000 migrants that enter the country. Whether half of these people come from outside the EU or not is irrelevant. Migration HAS changed the country.

You only have to walk around many towns to wonder if you are in England or Nepal, Poland or Pakistan.

You may like sitting on the bus hearing a myriad of languages being spoke and not understanding any of them.

You may like getting your car washed at the local garage for a tenner by what is really slave labour.

You may like being treated at the hospital by nurses and doctors we have basically stolen from poorer nations. Countries who had spent lots of money training them, just so that they could migrate here and get better wages.

You may like the multicultural society we have become, but you have to admit that we cannot cope with the current population pressures on our services as it is, let alone the estimated 80 million in a decade or so.

If our government cannot manage to build enough houses as it is how do you think they are going to suddenly start building millions that will be required?

It may be great if you are already a home owner as a shortage means your property value rises but if you want to buy or rent the prices are extortionate and you will be waiting a long time.

So when you go to vote tomorrow just think about what it will be like in 15 years time when our already over crowded country has an extra 10 million plus people in it.

We already have one of the highest levels of people living per square mile in the world. How will it be when rent for a single bedroom flat is over a grand a month and you have to wait 8 months or more for a hospital appointment.

I just got told yesterday that my current referral to the pain clinic which was sent off over 3 months ago will be in September, almost another 3 months away. That's 6 months for a serious condition and this is now. Imagine what it will be like in a decades time when our underfunded NHS has to cope with 80 million people. How long will we have to wait for an operation or consultation then?

I have nothing against migrants, nearly every doctor I have seen who has tried helping me has been one.

I have nothing against free trade, it helps our economy.

I have nothing against the Human Rights Act, it protects our rights when our own government wants to remove them.

I have nothing against co-operation with European nations on terrorism, crime and the environment. We need to join together to crack serious crime and stop ISIS gunmen attacking pubs and clubs.

However all this can be AND should be possible without having to be part of the EU.

I do have a problem though, as the left wing Tony Benn famously said, with not being able to vote out the people who make the rules I have to live by.

The EU may only make a small proportion of them but it is one of the most undemocratic bodies in the world. The most democratic part of it, the European Parliament has the least power within the whole giant bureaucratic body.

The EU Commission makes the rules we have to abide by if we want to participate in the free trade zone, even if you are not trading with the EU.

Many small companies don't even do business with European nations yet they still have to abide by the regulations they put out. They may be good for some things such as protecting our paid holidays and health and safety but telling manufactures of goods how they must be made when they are not even trading with the EU is red tape that small companies still have to comply with.

So just think today when you go and vote whether you want to have to wait half a year for a hospital appointment because of the number of people already waiting ahead of you and the failure of our government to properly fund and staff the NHS.

The remain campaign is right when they say this is not the fault of the EU but if our government is not doing it now WHY would they suddenly start if we voted to remain in the EU?

The same goes for the argument of reforming the EU from the inside out.

We have had decades to reform the EU and what has happened......nothing.

So what makes you think we will suddenly have a much louder and more important voice than the other nations if we vote to remain in the EU club?

Remember, we are the 5th biggest economy in the world. 

When people claim that is to do with the EU they are forgetting the 400+ years before World War I when we were the biggest economy in the world. 

We traded with all nations and we did pretty well before we had to borrow billions to fight 2 World Wars.

So whatever you decide to do today just think about the future first.

We may suffer a dip in the pound for a bit and shock horror, as one business man from the remain side said, wage rises! Also if we can reduce the number of people coming into the country and start building some more houses the prices will come down and you will be able to afford to get onto the ladder.

Remortgaging your house on the backs of the homeless isn't fair or right and your only gaining wealth due to the shortage of housing in the country.

Remember it was people remortgaging and living on credit cards that made our post 2008 recession so bad. The boom we had under Gordon Brown was built on debt. That is no way to build a strong economy.

Forget the experts, they are all globalists and elitists who want to see unions of countries all over the world. Less boundaries ensure that they can make more money themselves. They have got it wrong before and there is a good chance they will have got it wrong again.

I hate to have this vote whilst the Tories are in power as I don't trust them one bit and that is the one thing that worries me about leaving. 

However if we do leave David Cameron and Osborne will be gone pretty sharpish and I have no doubt we will have a chance to vote in another government, one that would protect our civil and working rights without the need for the EU.

One last point.

If we were not currently in the EU would you vote to join it? 

If the answer is no then you should be voting to leave. If it's yes then vote remain.

The choice is yours but it will affect our lives whatever choice we all make.

The Great EU Debate - Full Debate (Jun 21st)

The Great EU Debate - Full Debate (Jun 21st)

One day to go and I bet most people have either made their minds up a long time ago. People will either stick to their guns or they still don't know which they will vote. If so they will probably wobble and keep to what they know by voting remain when they enter the voting booth. A fear of a leap into the unknown etc.

If you didn't watch the BBC's great EU debate last night you can catch up on it now. This was shown on the BBC on June the 21st.

BBC 'The Great Debate' - EU Referendum Debate - Part One

BBC 'The Great Debate' - EU Referendum Debate - Part Two

BBC 'The Great Debate' - EU Referendum Debate - Part Three

BBC 'The Great Debate' - EU Referendum Debate - Part Four

So with one day to go did that debate help you in any shape or form?

Did you like Boris Johnson's idea of a national independence day on June 24th if we vote to leave the EU?

If not check out some of the other videos on the blog.

Reasons To Stay and To Leave

Reasons To Stay and To Leave

Still not sure which way to vote tomorrow then maybe these two short videos could help you.

Arguments To stay and to leave the EU...

The first video is from the Daily Telegraph and is a short video about why you should vote to leave the EU.

It claims to help voters get to the heart of the Vote Leave campaign by listing their key claims.


What did you think?

Did it help you get to the heart of the matter regarding leaving the EU?

But what about remaining in the EU?

This video is a short one from the Britain Stronger In Europe campaign and offers some points why we should vote to remain in the EU such as:

What would BREXIT mean for you and your family and why is it important that the UK remains part of the EU?

- Over 3 million jobs are linked to our trade with the EU.

- Being in the EU means lower prices in our shops, helping your family budget to go further.

- Our country is safer thanks to cross-European intelligence sharing and cooperation, and the European Arrest Warrant.

- Being in Europe means the freedom to live, travel, work and retire abroad.


Did that video help you at all?

Still confused?

Read some more articles and watch some more videos on this site. It has a lot from both the remain and leave side so is unbiased in it's point of view.

The whole point of this blog is to help you decide which way to vote by providing you content from both the leave and remain campaigns.

Hopefully it well help you enter the voting booth tomorrow with a clear mind on how you will vote.

David Cameron - "EU: In Or Out?"

David Cameron - "EU: In Or Out?"

The UK Prime Minister David Cameron faces some tough questions from Sky News journalists and members of the public in a big television event based around the EU referendum campaign.


What did you think of the debate? Did it help you decide which way to vote?

Do you believe every argument David Cameron makes or is his waffling and using fear tactics to scare people into voting to remain the EU?

Why was it that David Cameron was happy to talk about leading the leave campaign if he didn't get the deal he wanted yet he is now fear mongering and warning about financial Armageddon. What changed, his deal was pretty weak and I cannot believe he got the deal he wanted so why is he now using Project Fear to make people vote to remain in the EU.

The national votes are pretty close at the moment - how will you vote and who will you believe?

An American Point of view on BREXIT

An American Point of view on BREXIT

The potential consequences of a so-called BREXIT – the British exit from the European Union -- on the nation’s economy, immigration, and sovereignty are deeply dividing British voters, with the latest polls very close.

Special Correspondent Patricia Sabga in England explores both sides of the debate.


What do you think of the Americans point of view on BREXIT?

Have you decided how you will vote yet?

Time is running out!

BREXIT DEBATE - Eddie Izzard v Daniel Hannan

BREXIT DEBATE - Eddie Izzard v Daniel Hannan

This is a bit of an odd debate just because Eddie Izzard is in it dressed in his pink hat and lipstick. However he makes his points loud and clear for the Stand Up for Europe campaign and opposing him is the well known MEP and Eurosceptic Daniel Hannan.

It's a pretty good debate to watch.



What do you think about the debate did Eddie or Daniel make you change your mind about the vote to stay in the EU?

Have your say with the poll at the top.

Owen Jones - 6 Reasons To Vote To Remain iIn The EU

Owen Jones - 6 Reasons To Vote To Remain iIn The EU

Political commentator and journalist Owen Jones gives you 6 reasons to vote to remain in the EU.

1. Workers rights, paid annual leave and sick pay. All protected by our membership of the EU. Would the Tories protect us if we leave? Can we trust Boris Johnson not to strip of us our rights.

2. European wide actions on banksters, wealthy elite tax avoiders and climate change. EU finance ministers have put some action into practise which wouldn't have happened if it was down to the Tories, many of who are involved as the Panama Papers recently showed us.

Watch the video for the rest of the points.

We need to vote Remain in the EU referendum - to build a just, democratic Europe. The EU is far from perfect. It needs to become more democratic, more transparent and to start looking out for the people it represents ahead of corporate interests.

By uniting with people across Europe, we have a chance of achieving it.


What do you think of Owens points?

Are we better in together, as a left wing Eurosceptic Owen believes we can change the EU from the inside out. Is that a real possibility?

Daniel Hannan Invites You To Make Him Redundant

Daniel Hannan Invites You To Make Him Redundant

Euro MP, Daniel Hannan, invites you to make him jobless by voting to leave the EU. As he says in his speech the only two areas in the world without growth have been Antarctica and the EU. 

How is it this is not mentioned more than it is when people talk about trade and GDP? 

Also what about the amount of money we have given the EU over the years of austerity. As he points out the money we have given Europe would have negated the whole austerity program making it totally unneccessary.

However the most important point is that the EU is undemocratic and we cannot unelect the people making our laws. Do you feel that this is an important part of a nation state, being able to kick out the people who decide how your taxes are spent?

The blurb on the video says: 

In just 400 seconds Dan dismantles 40 years of EU inefficiency, corruption and down right un-democratic structure. This opening speech by Dan was part of a debate entitled 'Should Britain Leave the EU?' 

 

Did you like Daniel's speech, did it make you think that a BREXIT wouldn't be so bad after all?

Don't forget to vote!

ITV EU Debate in full

The 6 way EU ITV Debate in full

This is the full EU referendum debate recently held on ITV between 6 members of both the vote leave and vote remain campaigns.

We have on the Vote Remain side:

• Amber Rudd (Tory) 
• Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) 
• Angela Eagle (Labour)

And on the Vote Leave side:

• Boris Johnson (Tory) 
• Andrea Leadsom (Tory) 
• Gisela Stuart (Labour)

The full EU Referendum debate is below:


What did you think of the debate, who won and did it make you change your mind on voting?

Don't forget to vote at the top of the blog.

What does Vladimir Putin think about BREXIT?

What does Vladimir Putin think about BREXIT?

Unlike many other world leaders, Russia's president Vladimir Putin has kept quiet about Britain's upcoming referendum on its membership of the EU.

The BBC's Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has been finding out more.

The UK State news channel, the BBC, looks at what Russia and Russians think about the EU Referendum.


Do you believe Putin doesn't care about a BREXIT or do you think they do really want us to leave to stop the sanctions on them with a divide and rule strategy?

Don't forget to vote!

Some history about the European Union

Some history about the European Union

A video about the EU Referendum coming from a leave angle. It gives you some information about the amount of money we pay the EU and possibile actions we can take with regards to trading with the EU and the rest of the world.

Also it looks at the history of the EU going back as far as the aftermath of World War I and how plans of the people wanting a federal Europe have almost come to fruition.

The blurb on the video says:


What do you think of the history part of the EU, scary, accurate or just pure luck?

Don't forget to vote at the top of the page.

Nigel Farage v David Cameron - ITV Debate

Nigel Farage v David Cameron - ITV Debate

This is the debate from a couple of days ago on ITV between David Cameron and Nigel Farage.

Although described a debate it wasn't really as the two people were never on stage at the same time together.

Instead it was a politician v audience (with moderator - not that she did much) - format.

First Nigel Farage went on first to face questions from the Remain campaign and their supporters about the threats of leaving the EU to the economy, trade, NHS and security.

Then David Cameron went on to face questions from the Leave side and their supporters about the benefits of leaving. Questions on how he would deal with mass immigration that would see the UK have 80 million people living here by 2040, the lack of democracy in the EU and why he had changed his mind from speeches he had made before the EU referendum.

You can watch the full debate here.

Part 1 - Nigel Farage

Part 2 - David Cameron

Would it have been better if the two politicians were on stage together debating each other or do you think the format of one at a time v the audidence worked well?

Would you like to see more of these kinds of debates (if you can call it that), and if so, who would you like to see in them?

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Hillary Benn on why we should vote to remain in the EU

Hillary Benn on why we should vote to remain in the EU

The Labour MP, Hilary Benn, gives an interview on his support for staying in EU, totally against his fathers opinions which you can view here by clicking this link for an interview with Tony Benn.

The video calls it a car crash interview due to his stumbling across topics such as:

1. The UK cannot stop EU immigrants while in EU. 
2. Our housing problem. 
3. Labour's support for TTIP which will allow American corporations to buy up our remaining national industries and even sue us if we introduce laws which will cost them profits.

Do you think this is a car crash interview?

Does the thought of US global corporations buying up the UK and suing us for costing them profits scare you?

If it does would being inside the EU with a threat of the French vetoing the whole TTIP treaty which has been negotiated on an EU level make you feel safer than being at the mercy of Blairites and Tories who would undoubtedly sign us up for TTIP as soon as they can if we left?

Owen Jones - Six Reasons To Remain In The EU

Owen Jones - Six Reasons To Remain In The EU

Left wing writer and political commentator, Owen Jones, gives six reasons why we should vote to remain inside the EU later on this month.

The blurb on his video says the following:

We need to vote Remain in the EU referendum - to build a just, democratic Europe. The EU is far from perfect. It needs to become more democratic, more transparent and to start looking out for the people it represents ahead of corporate interests. By uniting with people across Europe, we have a chance of achieving it.

Do you think his arguments are convincing?

Are you worried about losing holidays, paid maternity leave or being sacked without recourse if we left the EU and allowed the Tories to scrap labour laws that have protected workers across the EU for decades?

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The Great Intelligence Squared Brexit Debate

The Great Intelligence Squared Brexit Debate

This is debate between pro-remain campaigner Nick Clegg who has actually worked in Europe and a Labour MP, Gisela Stuart who heads up the Vote Leave campaign. The debate also contained 3 special experts on the economy, law and immigration plus a "Fact Checker", who is on hand to call out any BS arguments made by the panel.

The blurb on the video says:

In this major debate, we hosted former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who has long supported further European integration. Against him was Gisela Stuart, the Labour MP and chair of Vote Leave. No ‘little Englander’, she argued that BREXIT is the progressive choice. But this was a debate with a difference. As well as our two main advocates, there were three special experts – who shared the findings of their research on the economy, law and immigration.

In addition, there was a professional fact checker from Full Fact, an independent factchecking charity, who was on hand to resolve any disputed claim at the click of a button.

Did you find having a "Fact Checker" on hand during the debate helpful to clear up any bad arguments made by Nick or Gisela?

Are you going to cast your vote based on facts or emotions?

Would you consider yourself a little Englander for wanting to vote leave and if you want to stay does that mean you are 100% behind a Federal Europe or do you think it can be reformed from within so late in the day?

BREXIT - Liam Fox v John Major

BREXIT - Liam Fox v John Major

This is a talk with both a pro EU (remain campaigner), John Major, as well as a leave campaigner, Liam Fox on the BBC's Andrew Marr show.



What do you think of the arguments made did John Major convince you to stay in the EU or did Liam convince you to vote to leave the EU?

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BBC Video on why we should stay in the EU

BBC Video on why we should stay in the EU

This is a BBC video on why we should stay in the EU.

Their description of the video is:

David Cameron has travelled to Brussels hoping to persuade other European leaders to back his plan for reforming Britain's relationship with the other 27 EU countries. It comes ahead of a referendum in which voters in Britain will decide to stay or leave the EU. That vote is expected to happen some time next year.

So what are the benefits of staying or leaving? UKIP's Suzanne Evans and Labour MP Alan Johnson have set out their opposing views for the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Mr Johnson, is fronting Labour's campaign to stay in the EU.

With the EU referendum only weeks away the BBC should be an impartial player in the debate but as the state news outlet for the country many people have complained that they are repeating the Conservative Remain message in their documentaries and news pieces.

What do you think are the BBC being an impartial player in this referendum or are they just the Conservative mouth piece for the Remain campaign?

British Citizens Living in the EU

British Citizens Living in the EU

This infographic shows the number of British citizens who are currently residing in other EU countries.

Will they be asked to leave or apply for VISA's if we leave the EU or will they be able to stay, collect free health care as they can now as well as benefits such as pensions?



What do you think, do you know people living abroad in the EU at the moment and what do they think about the EU vote?