U.K. official to Obama: Butt out
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2013/01/15 12:58:29
A prominent member of the British Parliament is telling Barack Obama to butt out of his nation’s affairs.
MP Gerard Batten, in an interview with Russia Today, was responding to U.S. comments about what the U.K. should do with regard to its future in the economically troubled European Union, which has been bludgeoned by the near-collapse of members such as Greece.
“This is a direct attempt to interfere in British domestic policies … and they are trying to frighten the British people,” Batten said.
“The politest thing I can say today is that President Obama should butt out of British affairs.”
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Kat 2013/01/15 13:20:50
Butt Out! before you create enemies.
Cheers.
President Obama has said that he wants Britain to stay in the European Union; saying it was in America’s interests for us to do so.
Yes that is the point, it may be in the USA’s interests but it is not in ours. Remember when Henry Kissinger said, “when I want to speak to Europe, who do I call?”
America wants Britain to stay in the EU because it only wants to deal with one centralised political state, not have the inconvenience of dealing with different democratic governments.
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Gerard Batten is paid the same salary as a UK Westminster MP at £65,736.96 per annum.
A compulsory contribution of 12% is taken for the UK Parliamentary Pension Scheme. As a re-elected MEP in June 2009 he had the option of taking the increased salary of €91,983.72 per annum (about £83,622) to stay on the salary scale of a UK MP (£64,766 at that time).
Gerard Batten opted to remain on the old lower salary saying, “in a time of economic crisis when many of my constituents are in fear of losing their jobs, and when politicians’ reputations have never been lower, I did not feel it would be justified to take an increase in salary of almost £19,000 per annum.
By taking this decision he also deprived himself an additional European Parliamentary pension, the contributions to which were worth in the region of £1,000 per month and are paid by the tax-payer.
UKIP, in UK elections only gets 3.1% of the vote. The only reason UKIP gets MEPs into the European Parliament is voter apathy, excepting the europhobe contingent.
One can only hope that the British and other European countries remember how Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and other tyrants came to power. The American people are so ignorant that they do not even know what their constitution stands for or how it protected their freedoms, and American politicians are handing the country to a new dictator.
In the 1960s, the Democratic party stood solidly for freedom and liberty. The ACLU, an offshoot of that party, stood for and fought for the rights and freedoms of the individual.
Today, both have been co-opted by the opposite, standing instead for total control of the individual and an end to freedom and liberty in order to achieve personal wants for the short term, while destroying the country long-term.