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What motivates the leaders of the United Kingdom Independence Party?


Thursday, July 22, 2004 

Reuters reports on Kilroy's Parliamentary 'Declaration of Independence'

Further coverage of the Kilroy speech as posted earlier, this time from Reuters linked here. His constituents he said-

"... want to be governed by their own people in their own parliament, and they will be during the lifetime of this parliament, believe me"

The text as reported on the website of the EU Parliament is as follows:-

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Robert KILROY-SILK (IND/DEM, UK) said his party could not support the Commission President-designate, because they did not support the institution itself. He said his constituents did not doubt the legitimacy of the European Parliament, but they did not wish to be governed by it. They wanted to be governed by their own Parliament and government -- and he promised that they would be within the term of the present Parliament. His constituents, he continued, also rejected the draft Constitution as a document based on obsolete theories and outdated fears of war and communism from the 1950s. They saw the EU was inward looking, restrictive and bureaucratic -- what they wanted was a flexible and outward looking community. They did not want to be part of a federal state called Europe, he said. Finally, recalling that Margaret Thatcher had demanded the UK's money back in 1984, he said: "We want our country back -- and we are going to get it."
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