Godfrey Bloom – “Prenderanno d’assalto questa camera e vi impiccheranno!”

“E avranno ragione!”
“Lo stato è un’istituzione dedita al furto”
“Voi (membri del parlamento) siete i massimi evasori d’Europa!”

Godfrey Bloom, membro del parlamento europeo, ha pronunciato questo breve ma memorabile discorso (che proponiamo al lettore come piccolo esercizio di inglese).


Mr. President, I am minded to quote the great American philosopher Murray Rothbard here. The state is an institution of theft. Tax is just about a system of politicians and bureaucrats who steal money from their citizens to squander in the most disgraceful manner. This place is no exception.

Fascinatingly, and I really don’t know how you manage to keep a straight face when you are talking about tax evasion. The whole commission and the commission bureaucracy avoid their taxes. You don’t pay taxes like citizens pay taxes. You have all sorts of special deals: tax rates, high tax thresholds, non-contributing pension schemes. You are the biggest tax avoiders in Europe. And here you sit pontificating, well the message is getting home to the people of the European Union.

You are going to find that eurosceptics are coming back in June, in ever greater numbers. And I can tell you worse, as the people get your number, it won’t be long before they storm this chamber and hang you. And they’ll be right.

Godfrey Bloom