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May 8, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
05:08
All EU Countries Are Expected to Adopt the Euro
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So I'm doing a quick video to correct Full Fact, which is Channel 4's fact-checking program or apparatus.
Now, I just want to be clear that I actually have quite a lot of respect for Full Fact usually, and I use them as a reputable source in many of my videos prior to now, because they had previously been rather good at their fact-checking mission.
But this is just not a true statement, and it kind of bothers me, and this is why I'm responding to it, because this is way more important to me than any of the smears that are going around.
This is actually addressing an argument that hypothetically I have made, but this isn't true.
They say UKIP MEP candidate Carl Benjamin aka Sagan of CAD suggested that under the Lisbon Treaty, the UK would have to adopt the Euro by 2020.
I didn't do that.
They say we've seen variants on this claim before, and it's not correct.
The UK hasn't opted out from ever adopting the Euro.
That's true.
We just have to make sure that we always have a government that wants to opt out from adopting the Euro, I suppose.
But this is what the actual quote they're replying to is.
And you'll see what I mean when I say that this is just a misrepresentation.
This is the article.
And this is the quote.
This is from a conversation that I had on the UKIP channel with Chris Hicks, the UKIP head of press and communications.
He said, the Lisbon Treaty, which actually calls within the text for all EU member nations, hopefully, to be a part of the Euro by 2020.
To which I replied, yes, because that's a true statement.
That's not saying that the UK will definitely be using the Euro by 2020 if we remain in the European Union.
That is to say that what they want is for all of the member states of the European Union to eventually adopt the Euro, which is true.
And this is something I learned from Channel 4's Full Fact.
Back in March, there was a viral list about the Lisbon Treaty, and a friend of mine on, a Labour supporting friend of mine on Facebook, I got into a tussle about it with him, and he'd linked this to me and gave me the correct information.
And there's a lot of very good information in this, and I'm really glad that he did this.
And this particular article actually does completely confirm what Chris Hicks had said, and to which I had agreed.
As they say, the treaty does reference the ultimate goal of the Euro, quote, becoming the currency of all member states of the Union.
And they even provide us a link.
So I looked it up.
It's true.
It's right there.
This is part of their protocol.
Be conscious of the need to lay down special provisions for enhanced dialogue between member states whose currency is the Euro, pending the Euro becoming the currency of all member states of the Union.
We did not say that it would definitely happen by 2020.
That's the hope, as Chris Hicks put it.
Hopefully, it would become that way.
And this is, as Full Fact have pointed out, the positions of remarkably important people within the European Union.
For example, Martin Schultz.
I want a new constitutional treaty to establish the United States of Europe, a Europe that is no threat to its member states, but a beneficial addition.
Fully agree, says Guy Verhofstadt.
This is also the title of my first book.
These are European Federalists.
They want to create the bureaucratic superstate that is the European Union across the entire continent.
And they do, as Full Fact demonstrated to us, want to have the Euro being the currency of all those member states.
And to be honest with you, it would be insane if they didn't.
Why wouldn't they want that?
Why wouldn't that be their end goal?
Of course they want that.
And I like the fact that Guy Verhofstadt and Martin Schultz and others are completely open about this, because that makes our case for us.
We do not want to be part of a giant European, quote, empire, according to Guy Verhofstadt.
So when Full Fact say, I suggested that the Lisbon Treaty would have to adopt the Euro by 2020, that's not true.
I didn't say that.
Neither did Chris Hicks, who's the person you're quoting in that article.
But I do very much appreciate that you are trying to engage with me on the level of argumentation, which is much better than every other media company in Britain so far, and outside presumably given the coverage.
You've actually tried to engage with something I've said, but Channel 4 Full Fact, what you've done is misrepresented what was said and not actually steel manned what was said.
And that's why I've had to make this video.
But again, I really do appreciate what you've said.
And please do continue to fact check me because if I'm factually incorrect, I can change that.
And I look forward to changing where I am factually incorrect, because I would like to further improve myself.
But I don't see the need for this.
The European Federalists do want all of the nation states of the European Union to be federal components of a super state under which all each one uses the Euro as their currency.
That is going to be the continual push if we remain inside the European Union.
So we have to make sure we opt out every single time and it only takes one time for one of the governments to opt in.
And as we've seen by the example of Greece, there is no legal mechanism to leave the Euro.
Once you're in, you're in.
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