"Your moment has come -lead the Greek people out of the euro with your head held high"

UKIP leader Nigel Farage MEP today told the European Parliament that
"The European project is actually beginning to die. 
This isn't just Greece we are talking about today. 
The continent is now divided from north to south. 
There is a new Berlin wall and it is called the euro.
" In a debate in Strasbourg in the presence of JC Juncker and Council 
President Donald Tusk, other political group leaders spoke 
in a fractious and angry exchange. Speaking during a visit to the 
chamber by the Greek Prime Minister Alex Tsipras, Farage turned 
to the Greek leader: "You have been very brave. 
You called that referendum. There were threats and bullying but 
the Greeks stood firm."

"So your moment has come, and frankly if you have the courage 
you should lead the Greek people out of the Eurozone with your 
head held high. Get back your democracy; get back control 
of your country. Give your people the leadership and the hope 
that they crave. Yes it will be tough in the first few months but 
with a devalued currency and with friends of Greece all over 
the world, you will recover."

"Thank you. What we're seeing in this chamber this morning 
and indeed across the whole of Europe is an irreconcilable cultural 
difference between Greece and Germany. 
A split between the North and the South of Europe. 
The European project is actually beginning to die. 
Nobody in this room will recognise that the peoples of Europe 
are saying, we were never asked whether we want in this. 
This has been foisted upon on us and we need to understand 
why the EMU doesn't work. 
Those monsters Kohl and Mitterrand, backed up by the clever 
but dangerous Delors believed that if they put in place 
an economic and monetary union then as night follows day, 
there would be political union and there would be an acceptance 
of this project and the North and South of Europe would converge. 
That we would all start to love each other and we would all start 
to feel a European identity, that we would all start to show allegiance 
to the flag and the anthem.

Those, of course, that criticised this were told we were extremists and 
we lacked vision. Well one vision we didn't lack is we understood the 
countries of Europe are different and if you try to force together 
different people and different economies without first seeking the 
consent of those people it is unlikely to work and the plan has failed. 
This isn't just Greece we're talking about today, the whole of the Med 
now finds itself in the wrong currency and yet virtually nobody in the 
political arena has the courage to stand up and say that. 
Indeed, I feel that the continent is now divided from North to South, 
there is a new Berlin wall and it is called the euro. 
The old enmities have been resumed. Just listen to the way the German 
leader of the CDU group this morning attacked Mr Tsipras. 
He was actually disgusting but it shows the way North and South 
feel about each other.

Mr Tsipras, your country should never have joined the euro, 
I think you acknowledge that. But the big banks, big business and big 
politics forced you in. Goldmans Sachs, the German arms 
manufacturers, they were all very happy when the bailouts began. 
They weren't for the Greek people, those bailouts were for French, 
German and Italian banks. They haven't helped you at all. 
These years of austerity, years of high employment and increasing 
poverty, none of it's worked. In fact, your debt GDP ratio has 
gone from 100 percent at the start of the crisis to 180 
percent right now. 
It would be madness sir, to continue on this course.

You have been very brave. You called that referendum. 
When one of your predecessors tried to do the same the bully boys 
in Brussels had him removed. 
They tried their best again, Mr Juncker said you would have 
to leave the Euro and leave the EU. Even Mr Schulz, the president 
of the parliament, who one would have thought might have 
been neutral, said that if the Greeks voted no then power supplies 
might even go down. There were threats and bullying but the Greeks 
stood firm. But sir, you cannot have your cake and eat it. 
They will give you no more these people. They cannot afford to, 
if they give you more they have to give other Eurozone members more.

So your moment has come, and frankly if you have the courage 
you should lead the Greek people out of the Eurozone with your 
head held high. 
Get back your democracy; get back control of your country. 
Give your people the leadership and the hope that they crave. 
Yes it will be tough in the first few months but with a devalued 
currency and with friends of Greece all over the world, 
you will recover.

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