Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE). – Mr President, very briefly, Rebecca Harms was shocked by the words used by Mr Farage. Well I am not shocked by them. Mr Farage is like an alcoholic who complains that another guy is drinking a pint in a pub, to give a good example that he can understand. That it is his problem. It is, on the one hand, ridiculous. But on the other it is not ridiculous because the reality is that, for nationalists and populists, it is not about Brexit, it is not about the interests of British citizens and certainly not about British industry: it is about destroying Europe. The real agenda is about destroying the European Union.
That is also the reason why Mr Farage continues to sit here in this House. It is completely ridiculous that we are being attacked because we want European defence, when the US President himself is saying that we need to take responsibility on our own continent and it cannot always be the American army that will do it. OK, I understand, Mr Farage, that you are critical of the operation in Libya. I understand too that you were apparently a good friend of all autocrats in the world, including Mr Putin and Mr Gaddafi.
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