Castle Point MP Bob Spink has congratulated rival UKIP MEPs on exposing the "waste, excesses, corruption and stupidity" of European institutions.
Mr Spink called for Britain to quit the Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy. He said: "The CAP passed its usefulness years ago.
"It delivers problems, not solutions, to our farmers and our consumers.
"It is increasingly inappropriate in an expanded Europe and it damages the developing world. I congratulate UKIP MEPs on using their position to inform the British public about the waste, excesses, corruption and stupidity of European institutions."
Mr Spink claimed the more the British people knew about the EU, the less they liked it.
He said: "The EU is being driven hard towards a single federal state. Our destiny is not to be consumed by that federal state."
Published Wednesday July 28, 2004
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