Europe is About to Impose Extreme Repression

On the heels of the recent turmoil in global markets, today King World News interviewed MEP (Member European Parliament) Nigel Farage, to get his take on the ongoing crisis.  Farage told KWN that “What you may see is a very desperate European Union begin to put in place capital controls and things like this ... In a sense the proposal that is on the table next week, which is coming from Van Rompuy and Barroso, would be the first step toward that repression.”  Farage also discussed the action in the gold market, but first, here is what Farage had to say about the crucial meeting in Europe next week:  “I would be very, very surprised at that big summit next week, which incidentally I have a ticket to, not that I’ll be the most popular person in the building, but I just don’t think there is going to be an agreement of any great significance next week.  I just don’t see it happening.”

“I hold to the theory that at some point in time, the markets are just going to overwhelm all of this, and then we will face the IMF global bailout situation.  It would be better to admit we’ve made a terrible mistake and take losses on the money we’ve already foolishly thrown in and say, ‘Let’s start again boys.’ 

Bearing in mind that overhanging all of this is the threat of something even worse in the banking system, which of course is very much beyond our control now....

“The total amount of money that is needed to shore up the Spanish banking system is more like 400 billion (euros), some people even think 500 billion (euros).  The trouble is that if Europe was to do that they would be penniless.  Because in theory they’ve got that money in their stability mechanism, although in practice all they’ve got are commitments from countries to put money in.  The cash isn’t actually there.

But even if they were able to rally around and get the cash, that would be it.  The money would have run out.  Then the market run would move to Italy.  So the scale of the Spanish banking problem is such that I don’t think Europe on its own is able to get Spain out of it.

So then you come back to the IMF.  If we reach a point where the EU has run out of money, and where the IMF begins to fragment in terms of what it’s willing to do, then what you face is the possibility of some of these banks actually going under.

So you throw trillions (of euros) at the thing, but six months later you find that the economy is still contracting, we’re still heading into a downward spiral, unemployment is getting worse, people are rioting on the streets and demanding a different solution.

At the end of the day there is no way that these countries are not going to go back to their own currencies that float on the exchanges.  What all of that means is that all of this money that’s been chucked in through the European Union and through the IMF, most of it in the end is going to be lost.”

Farage also warned:  “There were many people that thought communism would fall many years before it did because it was such a total failure.  But they managed, through repression, to keep the whole thing together.  What you may see is a very desperate European Union begin to put in place capital controls and things like this.

In a sense the proposal that is on the table next week, which is coming from Van Rompuy and Barroso, would be the first step toward that repression.  If they are able to put together a debt union from a European Union, if they are able to have total control over individual member states budgets and all of the rest of it, then we are heading very, very rapidly down that road towards repression.

Frankly, that’s the only way they can win now.  The only way they can win is to take away from the citizens the ability through the ballot box to do anything about this.  They are hellbent on doing it, but they know the electorates, particularly in the North of Europe, are, with every passing day, beginning to realize their little scheme, and we know the markets have no confidence in them.”

When asked about gold, Farage said, “Given the mess that we’re in, and given this threat that we could possibly be facing a 1931 type movement, you have to be in this market.  Got to be long gold, no question about it.”

The text above was just a small portion of what Farage had to say in this extremely timely and important interview.    He tells KWN listeners globally what to expect next in this ongoing crisis and how it should impact markets.  The KWN interview with Nigel Farage will be available shortly and you can listen to it by CLICKING HERE.