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Cameron and eurosceptic Farage discuss EU

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06-08-2016 16:54 BJT

British Prime Minister David Cameron and prominent eurosceptic politician Nigel Farage faced grilling questions from a studio audience on Tuesday about their respective positions on the upcoming June 23 referendum. Cameron said Britain has managed to make the EU work and leaving would endanger jobs and the economy. While Farage, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, said Britain would fare better out of Europe, and that he wants Brits to determine their own fate and legislate their own laws.

"I think we do have a special status in the EU already. We're not in the euro, we've got our own currency. We're not in the no-border zone, we've kept our own borders. We're now going to be out of the ever closer union proposal, so our membership is right for Britain. It gives us the trade, it gives us the co-operation, it helps us work with other countries to get what we want," said David Cameron British Prime Minister.

"And here's what really happens if we leave, of course we'd still want to sell into that single market, so we'd still have to meet all the rules and the regulations that Brussels lays down but we won't be at the table, we'll be like a country with our ear and our face pressed up against the glass trying to find out what's happening with the other 27 countries making rules that affect our country. I would say that is no way for the fifth biggest economy in the world to behave, we need to be in this organisation fighting for British interests and for British jobs, leaving is quitting, and I don't think we're quitters, I think we're fighters, we fight in these organisations for what we think is right," he said.

"I think the Eurozone is a catastrophe, just look at what they've done to Greece and those Mediterranean countries. The migrant crisis is now not just dividing countries but dividing within countries leading to a whole new brand of politics. The money's run out and yet at the same time they're saving up for the day after our referendum their announcements about a European army and about an increased European budget. The project doesn't work," said Nigel Farage eurosceptic politician.

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