‘If I’m wrong, throw me out!’ Farage in EU Parliament clash with ‘anti-democratic zealots’
NIGEL FARAGE was today involved in a furious clash with “anti-democratic zealots” in the European Parliament as he defended Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim ban’.
By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL REPORTER
Express.co.uk
Wed, Feb 1, 2017
The former Ukip leader, who still leads a group of MEPs in the European Parliament, declared his staunch support for President Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries.
He told the Strasbourg chamber: “What has happened here is somebody has stood on a manifesto for election, got into office and within one week said that he will hold faith with his own electorate. It is called genuine democracy.”
Mr Farage then launched a furious attack on the EU’s foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini – who had earlier opened the European Parliament’s debate on the new US travel restrictions and Syrian refugee ban by voicing the EU’s opposition to it.
Mr Farage said: “Unlike the system we have in the European Union where the unelected commissioners like Mogherini here, have the sole right to propose legislation.
“So I’m sure that it’s a great shock to you to see that a genuinely elected democrat is doing what he was put in to do.”
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