It's about mass immigration at a time when 21% of young people can't find work. It's about giving £50 million a day to the EU when the public finances are under great strain.

In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.