• Good morning ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your warm welcome. I am not going to use this opportunity to promote my candidature for UKIP’s leadership. As most of you will know I stood in last year’s contest and I came second after Lord Pearson. I have declared my intention to stand this time and I will tell you my programme at the appropriate time and place.

 

What I will do now is to tell you about how the European Union is creating its own system of criminal law. The EU is in the process of creating its own police-state.

 

 

• These next few years are the most important for our country, our liberties and our party.

 

And only through our Positive Vision for the way ahead will we be able to grow this party. That’s what we want, don’t we? To grow this party? To realise its real potential?

 

The foundations are set, we increased our vote share by 50% at the last election.  We have a full and comprehensive manifesto, taking the fight to the Coalition and Labour on everything from defence to the economy, to fisheries and immigration. Policies make us relevant.

 

"I am utterly appalled at this suggestion which is almost beyond belief and that is saying something with the bilge given the go ahead by the European Commission," said Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro MP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

The Commission is investigating plans which could see corpses dissolved in caustic solutions in a bid to cut down on the amount of land taken up by graves.

 

Belgian undertakers have come up with the proposals which could see people’s deceased loved ones being placed in containers containing salts and water.

 

Speaking during a debate on the future of the CAP, Mr Agnew said that the plans would divert money away from working farmers, and accused the EU of being obsessed with climate change, leading to nonsensical CO2 reduction measures being proposed.

 

"There is no good reason to have the CAP, but if we are compelled to have it, let its focus be on supporting farmers, not on politically correct, pseudo-scientific scares. 

 

"Because they weren't part of this club, because they didn't surrender to the Euro they have had a competitive devaluation of the Krona which has been good for their economy. It has led to a tourist boom and I would have thought countries like Greece would have been very jealous of them," said Nigel Farage.

 

"We're talking about a place where people actually think before they jump, and I think that's why roughly two-thirds of people in opinion polls have made their minds up - they don't want to join the European Union; it isn't going to happen. And all I can say is lucky old Iceland."

 

"Along with their Federalist LibDem allies they today voted in favour of the EU creating an EU Banking authority situated in Frankfurt. Years from now, people will look back and pinpoint this as the day that the Tories destroyed the City," said Bloom, an old City boy himself.

 

"That 22 out of 25 Tories would consistently vote in favour of building an EU regulatory prison for our Financial Services Industry is obscene. These EU regulatory bodies shall be like the prison guards.

• The lack of a proper head of state to lead Belgium's presidency of the European Union was described as 'fitting' for a fake exercise in democracy, UKIP MEP Nigel Farage said today.

 

Speaking after hearing Belgium acting PM Yves Laterme address the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Mr Farage said, "Belgium is an artificial construct as a nation, and a prototype for the equally artificial nation of the European Union. Of course, in the Brussels madhouse, failure of the prototype is no reason to not rush into the mass production of 'ever closer union'.

 

"We now have a President of the European Union who has no electoral mandate, and, worse, no country to lead as Belgium begins to disintegrate into its constituent parts. The President who is supposed to continue guiding Europe on its path to 'ever closer union' has proved unable to hold together a nation of 11 million people.

• The failure of the common currency has long been predicted, as it was flawed from the very start, UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom told Commission president Barroso today in Strasbourg.

 

'It was even flawed with your own rule book, and what actually happened when you introduced the euro is that you actually tore up your own rule book - you threw it away!'

 

Speaking during the debate on "Economic governance in the EU and the Euro zone, and surveillance of national budgets", Mr Bloom said that central banks are getting into the same trouble that commercial banks get themselves into when they buy junk debt that is then repackaged into triple A rating before redistribution. 

 

Mr Batten, who is a member of the European Parliament's Civil Liberties committee, said that the agreement simply 'trashed the basis of the UK's Data Protection Act' and allowed a foreign government to access private, personal data on financial transaction whenever it saw fit.

 

Mr Batten said, "Once again, the EU has ignored the rights of individuals in the interests of furthering its own agenda.

 

"The agreement relies upon the US government being honest and transparent about its access to data, despite the US having ignored EU legislation for the previous 5 years.

 

"You have exercised the EU rotating presidency in the same way you govern your country, Spain - that is, with your back to your citizens," Ms Andreasen told Mr Zapatero, who was in Strasbourg for the parliamentary debate to review the Spanish presidency after its six-month rotating period ended in June.

 

"Today I'm coming back here to remind you of the infamous Spanish land grab, a matter which I first brought to your attention in January.  You have done nothing to resolve the menace affecting hundreds of thousands of people across Spain who face confiscation and demolition of their houses," Ms Andreasen continued.

Responding to the report, UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom said today: "All modern economies must have cost effective energy policy if they are to compete. Spain has learned this the hard way. Let us hope the 'Green Fascisti' do not insist Great Britain follows a self destructive energy policy to placate the middle classes working safely at the BBC or the Guardian. Only real jobs can save us now. The expense of so-called Green Energy is gross and ghastly."

 

The document, in the form of a presentation titled 'Renewable Energy: Situation and Objectives April 2010', acknowledges that "the price of electricity determines the competitiveness of Spanish industry" and attributes the country's 77% price hike mainly to additional costs of renewables.