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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Kilroy demands 'Our Country Back'
In his maiden speech in Strasbourg, Robert Kilroy speech got the following coverage from EU Business, linked here:
British eurosceptic star Robert Kilroy-Silk demanded his country's withdrawal from the EU on Thursday, citing former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in a rabble-rousing debut as an EU lawmaker. Kilroy-Silk, who has become the figurehead of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), lashed out at the European Union's just-agreed constitution and said he did not want to belong to a European federal superstate.
"My constituents do not want to see the creation of a federal state called Europe. They want to be governed by their own people in their own parliament," he said in his first speech to the European Parliament.
"Some 20 years ago Mrs. Thatcher went to Fontainenbleau and said 'I want our money back,' and she got some of it," he said, referring to Thatcher's infamous 1980s demand for an EU budget rebate at an EU summit in France.
"We want our country back, and believe you me, we are going to get it," he told the Strasbourg assembly.
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