12 angry men seek 'divorce' from EU

Newly elected MEPs from the anti-EU UK Independence Party have arrived in Brussels to hold their first press conference in the European Parliament.

Speaking on behalf of the group, ahead of his second term as an MEP, Nigel Farage said he was seeking an “amicable divorce” from the rest of Europe.

“We are not anti-European” he stressed, “we want to be friends with them,” but he made it clear that full withdrawal from the EU was his party’s top priority.

The new MEPs said that their job was to report back to the British public on the waste and corruption at the heart of the EU.

Batting away questions relating to his work as a legislator in the parliament, former chat show host and the UKIP’s poster boy, Robert Kilroy-Silk said that he was not elected to serve on committees but rather “I was elected to help Britain govern itself.”

He said that he would be looking into the heating and air conditioning costs in Parliament in a bid to show UK’s tax payers how their money was being spent.

“Our most important task is to get our country back from Brussels…we have no other purpose,” he added.

Public mistrust and protest votes benefited anti-EU candidates in the recent European elections with UKIP making major gains at the expense of mainstream parties.

UKIP came from nowhere third place on 17.7 per cent of the vote in the EU's third largest country.

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