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ISSUED BY PETER SKINNER, LABOUR MEP FOR THE SOUTH EAST REGION

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For immediate release                          Thursday, 25 February 2010

“Farage not fit to represent South East”

Labour MEP for the South East Peter Skinner condemned UKIP’s Nigel Farage for an aggressive, personal attack on EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy.

“Instead of using the European Parliament as a forum for debate for the benefit of Britain and Europe, Mr Farage has debased the chamber and his position as South East MEP by making a vitriolic personal attack on an EU official.”

“His behaviour is little removed from playground name-calling.”

Mr Skinner, who has represented the South East in Brussels for more than fifteen years, said that Mr Farage had let down the people of the South East.

“An MEP should be fighting for his constituents on an European level, giving people in the South East the quality of representation they deserve. Frankly Mr Farage’s behaviour is more reminiscent of a the hooligan image of Brits abroad that we all know isn’t accurate, and that’s not what the people of the South East voted for.”

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