comrades and
friends first of all I'd like to thank
njel
farage very sincerely for his kind
welcome the more generous because Nigel
and I agree on hardly anything at
all but we do agree at least on one
thing and it happens to be the most
important thing not only now but in the
lifetime of everyone in this Hall and
everyone in this country it is the
demand that Britain should be an
independent Sovereign and Democratic
country and that means leaving the
European Union
in this Hall as in this
country all of us will have different
visions of what our country could be
should be but the fundamental point is
none of us here in this Hall none of us
here in this country are in a position
to decide which vision of Britain should
come to pass because that power has been
given away to a lavishly funded
bureaucratic state to a toothless
fantastically financed pseudo
Parliament and to a council of
Ministers of countries which to be fair
how could it be
otherwise act in their own national
interests rather than ours and that that
means that our independence as a country
is no more and we have an exit door as
Nigel just said and if we don't take it
then we and our children and their
children will lament and regret that we
did not take that opportunity which now
comes before us on the 24th of
J I uh
I wanted to be here to nail the lie that
to be on this side of the
argument is to be on the political
right I
Fought The
1975
referendum behind my then
leader the late and great right
honorable Tony Ben and it's in in memory
of him that I'm standing here this
[Applause]
evening Tony Ben won US the right to
have a referendum in
1975 and this I must
say but for Nigel farage we would not be
having a referendum on this question
I want to nail the lie that being a
member of the European Union has
anything to do with left as my friend
for nearly 40 years though she was
obviously a child then G
to pointed out what's left about ttip
allowing American corporations to smash
down the doors of the National Health
Service and privatize what they like
with the power of law behind
them what's left about driving down
workers wages and
conditions what's left about a
situation and you know this I must say I
know that this is one of my differences
with
Nigel I have not just respect but love
for the people of
Romania I'm the only person in this room
that has published a book in the
Romanian
language I even speak a little bit of
Romanian but I cannot agree to
subcontract
to the Romanian government the right to
decide who can come and live and work in
Britain who we can Deport from Britain
what level of deficit we can run in
Britain or what our foreign policy in
Britain should be that I cannot
do I want to nail the
that to be on this side of the
argument is to wallow in
nationalism as a matter of fact I hate
nationalism I fought Scottish
nationalism all my life and I helped win
the referendum in Scotland in
2014 defeating Scottish nationalism I
hope to help win this referendum
in a few months time that's why I'm
pleased to say I have yesterday on
behalf of my party signed up as an
affiliate of Grassroots out and I hope
that the Electoral commission will give
this broadly based all party campaign
the designation of the official out
campaign
but neither am I a British
nationalist being a
Scotsman from Irish
background I can hardly be called a
little
Englander there is nothing
internationalist about locking yourself
out of the world there is nothing
internationalist about locking yourself
in although the locks seem to have
broken into a rich man's club in a part
of Europe I want the world to be our
oyster I want to trade with the
Commonwealth that we so shamefully
abandoned when we joined the European
Union in
1975 I want to
trade with Brazil with Russia with India
with China with South Africa with Iran
where the sun is rising not setting and
where most of the customers in the world
actually live so we will not be cutting
ourself off from anything if we leave
the European Union we will be opening
ourselves to the entire world now that
is
internationalism now
I
mentioned I mentioned the eurocrats
I was a member of the British Parliament
for almost 30 years and I woke up one
morning to discover that somebody called
Katherine Ashton was now my foreign
minister like Nigel in the wonderful
footage you just saw my question was who
are
you who elected you
who can remove you and I watched as this
person I'd never held of before on our
behalf dragged us into one
confrontation after another with one
adversary after another now to be fair
it may very well
be the the British government maybe any
British government certainly in recent
years would have taken us into those
same confrontations but at least I could
have fought against that here and
Parliament could have overturned that
there and David Davis has left a man I
greatly love and
respect David Davis and I were part of
an epic debate in
2014 when that genius Cameron tried to
persuade us to become the Air Force for
Isis and Al-Qaeda
and start bombing Syria the American Air
Force was warming up on the tarmac just
waiting for a rubber stamp from the
British Parliament of David Cameron's
point of view but in an epic debate in
which speeches changed the
outcome his speech and my speech among
them changed the outcome we defeated
Cameron and the engines had to be
switched off and the Andrews Air Base
and we narrowly by 13 votes avoided
becoming embroiled in a disaster that's
the kind of parliamentary sovereignty I
believe in and that's the kind that we
can have if we leave this European
union now
finally finally I don't want you to
think that I'm any kind of pacifist
against all wars if if I was alive and
of age I would have been among the first
in the queue to volunteer to fight in
the second world war indeed I would have
been one of those agitating that we
should confront fascism earlier and with
all the Vigor that we could then must
but the war when it came was as Mr
Churchill said our finest hour when we
all went forward together Mr Churchill
and Mr Atley and Mr bevon together as
one front rank leading the British
people never has United before or since
and we wrote our name in The Stars
that's what we are doing here tonight Mr
farage and me Miss Hoy and Mr Davis left
right left right forward march to
Victory on the 23rd of BL
[Applause]
well ladies and gentlemen as a
rightwing conservative Member of
Parliament gives me great pleasure to
say what a wonderful speech George
Galloway tonight ladies and gentlemen it
shows that the go movement is not a ukip
front it's not a Tory front it's not a
labor front and it's not a respect front
it is a movement where everyone works
together