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"Although I am aware that what I do here is of no interest to other Members of this institution, my real audience is my own constituents. It is to them that I wish to explain my actions.
Accordingly, I have to state for the record – for reasons I am not allowed space to expound on – that I do not believe this directive can or will address the real problems of businesses.
Mainly, however, I am against this directive because it brings to the fore the foreign nature of the system in which the UK is embroiled. The central fact is that it was first presented to this assembly on 17 September 1998.
That was before the last European elections. In other words, we have a new Parliament installed by a new electorate. But despite that, the directive goes on.
This shows the change of Parliament was cosmetic – a charade. All the electorate has been allowed to do is shuffle the deck chairs on the deck of the Titanic. Meanwhile, the project continues to sink into the bureaucratic bog.
I hope I am here to see it finally disappear but, in the meantime, I have voted against this measure."@en1
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