Brexit latest: MEP lashes EU 'colonial masters' over plans to keep control of UK waters
The pro-Brexit politician accused Brussels of planning to maintain control of British waters after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. Mr Agnew said: "Quite simply the European Union thinks it knows best. It thinks it is entitled to impose its thinking on others as with Brexit, so in the world’s oceans and seas. "This is a thinking of colonialism. And I’m not a bit surprised that these colonial masters have no plans to hand back the UK fishing waters post-Brexit."
YOUTUBE:Ukip/GETTY Stuart Agnew accused the EU of planning to keep control over water after Brexit
Speaking to colleagues during the EU December parliamentary session in Strasbourg, the Ukip MEP went into a tirade blasting the EU for attempting to impose its "we-know-best" way on all member states. He continued: "For the European Union there is only the EU approach: a single set of rules to be imposed on everybody else. "There can be no taking account of the thinking, the wishes and the needs of others. There can be no mutual recognition, there can only be alignment and harmonisation. "They sound so nice, so innocuous, don’t they? What reasonable person could object to aligning things, to harmonising them? But these words are euphemisms. They conceal the authoritarian, one-size-fits-all, we-know-best way that the European Union seeks to impose its will upon others."
I’m not a bit surprised that these colonial masters have no plans to hand back the UK fishing waters post-Brexit Stuart Agnew