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"en.20041118.11.4-125"2
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".
Mr President, I sympathise with the people of Tibet. They lost their independence and cultural identity when columns of uninvited troops came over the border. Tibetans were forced to comply with foreign regulations aimed at changing their traditions and eliminating their country. I sympathise because the United Kingdom lost its independence and identity when a referendum on trade turned out to be a political take-over. Uninvited foreign regulations poured over the border attempting to change traditions and eliminate the country.
I support the Tibetans in their peaceful struggle to leave the grip of China and hope that they will pray for the people of the UK in their struggle to leave the dead hand of the European Union. I respect the peaceful objectives of the Buddhist tradition of Tibet and realise that the rest of the world has much to learn from them.
On Monday, the President told this Parliament that the First World War, a war in which both of my grandfathers defended their country, was a civil war. This is an untruth. I am aware that Tibet's proud history is also being rewritten by the same species of bureaucrat. If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it.
I can only offer a little 1940's anglicised Latin in sympathy which I believe follows the Buddhist teachings
don't let the bastards grind you down."@en1
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"'noli illegitimatum carborundum'"1
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