UKIP MEP Welcomes Bannon’s Right-Wing Initiative ‘to Stand Up to Soros’
SputnikNews.com
31.07.2018
Britain’s UKIP plans to cooperate with Steve Bannon’s new foundation, called The Movement, that aims to bolster right-wing parties in Europe, according to a report by the Independent. Sputnik discussed the issue with David Coburn, a British MEP with the UK Independence Party.
Sputnik: What do you think of Mr. Bannon’s idea?
David Coburn: Number one we are a libertarian party, UKIP are a libertarian party. I don’t think Mr. Bannon’s right-wing, I think Mr. Bannon’s libertarian, as far as I am given to understand. We have not been approached as yet about this, but Mr. Bannon’s a man I admire very much indeed, I think that it’s good that there is somebody who wants to stand up to Mr. Soros who seems to be funding the European Union and all its different campaigns. So it would be good to have somebody, on an international basis, who would stand up to that, the opposition to what I call liberty.
Sputnik: How high are the chances that it will be successful and what experience can UKIP share?
David Coburn: Number one, that’s something we’d have to discuss as a democratic party; the leader, Gerard Batten, hasn’t yet been approached on this. But it’s an interesting proposition, obviously we will look at it when and if someone asks us. I think it’s a very good idea that we should approach the European Union on an international level. Personally, I’ve been making speeches in France, in French, to people like Les Patriotes and other political parties, because I think the European Union is not just to be fought on a British level; I think we should fight it internationally, right across the board.
I’ve been fighting it helping out the French, I know the Hungarians have serious issues with the European Union in terms of migration; I know that the Poles, I have many friends and colleagues in our group within the European Parliament, who [were] affected by the European Union when it tried to interfere with the judiciary of Poland; I feel that Poland should be able to express as it sees fit, as does my party. There’s a lot of people who are fed up to the back teeth with the European Union, and that goes right across Europe, and I must admit that UKIP, in its grouping in the European Parliament, has many international friends from various countries; we get on better than the Remainers do with their international friends in the European Union. We actually get on well and we work together because we want a Europe of free independent states that do their own thing and are not controlled by the European Union.
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