Farage hits nail on head as European leaders refuse to address voters’ worries
GETTY Nigel Farage has torn into the 'out of touch' Brussels establishment
In a European Parliament meeting yesterday Mr Farage, who remains an MEP, tore into the Brussels establishment for being out of touch with voters’ worries on migration. The migrant crisis is still the most pressing problem facing the EU.
It has allowed terrorists into the heart of Europe, led to a series of horrendous crimes across the continent and set the leaders of member states against one another. All the while people from the Middle East and North Africa continue to drown in the Mediterranean. Anti-EU Right-wing figures such as Holland’s Geert Wilders and France’s Marine Le Pen have seen their popularity soar as voters turn against European leaders who refuse to address this crisis. Yet still politicians and Eurocrats alike are unwilling or unable to do anything meaningful about it. Indeed, to use Mr Farage’s description, many of them “despise” voters worried about the arrival of people who are unlikely to have been vetted despite coming from terrorist hotspots. If the EU cannot address well-founded fears held by a large and growing percentage of its citizens then it deserves to fail.
GETTY The Government have rejected calls to withdrawn Donald Trump's state visit
Right to let Trump visit THE Government is quite right to reject a petition calling for Donald Trump to be prevented from making a state visit. Foreign relations are the preserve of our Prime Minister, members of her Cabinet and our diplomats around the world. Their efforts must be guided by good sense, pragmatism and the national interest – not by the number of cyber warriors willing to put their name to a cause. Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump the reality is that he is the President of the United States. That makes him the leader of the free world and the head of Britain’s oldest and closest ally. We need to build a cordial relationship with him. At the very least it would be appallingly rude – and most un-British – to retract an invitation that has already been offered. It is only right that he be extended the “full courtesy” of a state visit.
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